Thu, Nov 3 2011, 11:19 AM
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Thu, Nov 3 2011, 11:02 AM
No one
said mortgage servicing (or lending) would be any fun. The Las Vegas City
Council, on the 15 th , will consider a proposal that would make l...
Thu, Nov 3 2011, 10:27 AM
This morning's alert from MBS Live:
EU Headlines Pull MBS Lower. Other
Factors Add to Hectic Morning9:25 AM
Confirming the notion that E...
Thu, Nov 3 2011, 8:28 AM
Equities look to build on yesterday's rally as traders await for a key services index and look forward to Friday's employment report.
Treasuries, w...
Thu, Nov 3 2011, 5:18 PM
The Departments of Treasury and Housing
and Urban Development have released their joint October 2011 Housing
Scorecard . The report is essentially...
Thu, Nov 3 2011, 4:41 PM
Each National Housing Survey
conducted quarterly by Fannie Mae gathers baseline data on attitudes of the
nation's homeowners and renters on home...
Thu, Nov 3 2011, 4:24 PM
After a series of gains that brought mortgage rates back within striking distance of all time lows, things have worsened just slightly today.
The ...
Thu, Nov 3 2011, 4:19 PM
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Thu, Nov 3 2011, 4:17 PM
After a series of gains that brought
mortgage rates back within striking distance of all time lows, things have
worsened just slightly today.
T...
Thu, Nov 3 2011, 3:31 PM
After an annoying morning of getting yanked around by every little European headline, bond markets have been calmer in the PM hours, ironically settli...
Wed, Nov 2 2011, 12:07 PM
The latest Mortgage Monitor report from Lender Processing
Services (LPS) shows a housing market where things are improving slowly, while parts
of ...
Wed, Nov 2 2011, 11:31 AM
Following
the tragic death of the Human Cannonball at the Springfield Autumn Fair, a
spokesman said "We'll struggle to get another man of the same
...
Wed, Nov 2 2011, 11:19 AM
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Wed, Nov 2 2011, 10:46 AM
This morning's live alert on the MBS Dashboard:
MBS Open Slightly Lower. No Major Drama This AM. Waiting on FOMC - 9:01 AM:
Yesterday's ra...
Wed, Nov 2 2011, 10:10 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
has released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ended October
28. MBA's Market Composit...
Wed, Nov 2 2011, 9:06 AM
The equity sell-off and flight to
safe havens are both on pause Wednesday as traders await a key look at
employment and the latest monetary policy a...
Wed, Nov 2 2011, 5:18 PM
The Homeowner Vacancy Rate declined slightly in the third
quarter while vacancies rose in rental housing according to information reported
today by ...
Wed, Nov 2 2011, 5:16 PM
Yesterday
we noted that event in Europe were once again the dominant force moving
markets, including the secondary mortgage market, albeit indirectl...
Wed, Nov 2 2011, 4:19 PM
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Wed, Nov 2 2011, 2:36 PM
Hindisght gives the clear impression of an exceedingly methodical rally for MBS today within a trend channel seen in the chart below. You'll be able ...
Tue, Nov 1 2011, 11:54 AM
Homeowners who believe they were
financially harmed by improper foreclosure procedures now have a new avenue for
relief. Three major federal regu...
Tue, Nov 1 2011, 11:17 AM
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Tue, Nov 1 2011, 11:07 AM
Saying that there are no silver
bullets that will solve all the problems facing the housing and mortgage
markets CoreLogic, a
provider of informati...
Tue, Nov 1 2011, 10:59 AM
Seven
billion is a lot of people. I guess that's about how many of us there are in
the world: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515 .
(And no, ...
Tue, Nov 1 2011, 10:05 AM
(From MBS Live!) " Greek Referendum Rocks Markets At The Open, Or Does It? 8:42AM: The "big" story this morning is that Greek PM Papandreou has ca...
Tue, Nov 1 2011, 8:38 AM
Well, November is off to a rocky start. After a 2.5% equity plunge to start the week, equity futures are down another 2% on the out-of-the-blue announ...
Tue, Nov 1 2011, 4:43 PM
Of course there was the initial news this morning that Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou called for a referendum of the recently agreed-upon c...
Tue, Nov 1 2011, 4:22 PM
Mortgage Rates continued lower today as drama in Europe came roaring
back. In short, EU drama is and has been
increasing the demand for safe-have...
Tue, Nov 1 2011, 4:22 PM
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Tue, Nov 1 2011, 3:14 PM
The Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) and Ginnie Mae have suspended Allied Home Mortgage Corporation , thereby
preventing the compa...
Mon, Oct 31 2011, 11:17 AM
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Mon, Oct 31 2011, 10:07 AM
Welcome to
Halloween. On this day every year Ops managers across the nation struggle
between month-end funding and shipping more loans, or in judgin...
Mon, Oct 31 2011, 9:35 AM
This mornings Live Market Update from MBS Live! (levels updated):
"MBS Beginning The Week in Much Better Shape. FOMC, NFP Loom 8:44 AM
W...
Mon, Oct 31 2011, 8:59 AM
A changing mood on the final day of October - I'm doing my best not to say spooky - is threatening to eat away from what looks to be a 14% gain in the...
Mon, Oct 31 2011, 4:17 PM
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Mon, Oct 31 2011, 3:35 PM
Building on Friday's strength, Mortgage Rates have experienced an almost
complete reversal of fortune versus the weakness that surrounded the EU
...
Mon, Oct 31 2011, 1:23 PM
Several reports now of lenders repricing for the better in the Live Chat section of the MBS Live Dashboard. The two traditionally early-to-reprice ...
Fri, Oct 28 2011, 12:16 PM
Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden has
sued the Mortgage Electronic Registration system (MERS) the controversial entity
that has been at the hea...
Fri, Oct 28 2011, 11:26 AM
According to the National Association of
Home Builders (NAHB) the remodeling industry has been increasingly impacted by
the state of the nationa...
Fri, Oct 28 2011, 11:17 AM
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Fri, Oct 28 2011, 10:17 AM
"Those with the will to come into work today will at least be greeted by a modicum of relief for bond markets. But the key point is this: after more t...
Fri, Oct 28 2011, 9:39 AM
For those
out there that like maps, who are Native American or Alaskan, or who live in
Native American areas, here is a nifty illustration (Oklahoma...
Fri, Oct 28 2011, 8:55 AM
Thursday's stock rally isn't being sustained in early trading: equity futures in the U.S. are pointing downwards and European markets are in modest se...
Fri, Oct 28 2011, 4:40 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) with the
assistance of the two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) for which it has
oversight, has upd...
Fri, Oct 28 2011, 4:17 PM
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Fri, Oct 28 2011, 4:04 PM
We've spoken in the past about "walls" that crop up in the course of Mortgage Rate movements. We're now seeing a similar case for 4.25% as it con...
Thu, Oct 27 2011, 12:46 PM
This EU Summit has been the focal point of quit a bit of drama lately--perhaps too much by the time we consider the attention that the lead-up and spe...
Thu, Oct 27 2011, 12:21 PM
In a joint press release issued Wednesday
Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ) announced that three
members of Freddie Ma...
Thu, Oct 27 2011, 12:19 PM
Pending home sales fell for the third
consecutive month in September according to data released today by the National
Association of Realtors ® (N...
Thu, Oct 27 2011, 11:21 AM
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