Fri, Nov 25 2011, 11:19 AM
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Fri, Nov 25 2011, 10:37 AM
Here's the latest alert from MBS Live:
MBS Under Pressure at US Stock Open, Hit Lows of The Morning 10:09AM
At the 9:30am US Stock Market ope...
Fri, Nov 25 2011, 8:27 AM
Key events overnight include an Italian 183 day bill auction stopping at 6.5%. If only that were the exception vs the rule for the European periphery...
Fri, Nov 25 2011, 4:20 PM
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Wed, Nov 23 2011, 11:18 AM
"Well
it's been ten years and a thousand beers, and look at the mess I'm in -
A broken nose and a broken heart, and an empty bottle of gin.
Well...
Wed, Nov 23 2011, 11:18 AM
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Wed, Nov 23 2011, 10:07 AM
The
volume of mortgage applications declined 1.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted
basis during the week ended November 18 according to the Mortgag...
Wed, Nov 23 2011, 8:20 AM
Here's this morning's alert from MBS Live:
Overnight Treasury Rally Abates, Resulting in Flat Open for MBS 8:20AM
Things are still settling...
Wed, Nov 23 2011, 4:23 PM
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Wed, Nov 23 2011, 2:50 PM
Spurred by a strong demand for rental
housing and low property prices , investors are buying more houses according to the latest Campbell/Inside ...
Wed, Nov 23 2011, 2:29 PM
Today might as well have not even existed in the world of Mortgage Rates . They're exactly the same as yesterday. In fact, today is the first day e...
Wed, Nov 23 2011, 1:56 PM
Here's the latest alert from MBS Live:
7 Year Treasury Auction an Absolute Triumph. Possible Positive Reprices 1:20PM
After 5 auctions in a ...
Tue, Nov 22 2011, 12:29 PM
MBS continue to trade within the sideways range that has prevailed since yesterday afternoon although Fannie 3.5's did see a brief blip lower followin...
Tue, Nov 22 2011, 11:20 AM
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Tue, Nov 22 2011, 10:37 AM
The
inability of the Super Committee (maybe not so super) brought forth a flurry of
political jokes. (For example, a driver is stuck in a traffic ja...
Tue, Nov 22 2011, 8:25 AM
This morning's alert from MBS Live:
Uneventful, Low-Volume Overnight Session. Bond Markets Largely Unchanged 8:24AM
Perhaps more than any oth...
Tue, Nov 22 2011, 4:25 PM
Actually, there may be more than two good reasons to play it safe with your lock/float approach at the moment. And as always, there are counterpoints...
Tue, Nov 22 2011, 4:20 PM
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Tue, Nov 22 2011, 3:52 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency
(FHFA) has announced the conforming loans limits that will apply to the two
government sponsored enterprises (G...
Tue, Nov 22 2011, 3:38 PM
Today was another quiet for Mortgage Rates , and once again we're dealing with Best-Execution rates right where they were yesterday with some minor i...
Tue, Nov 22 2011, 3:32 PM
The Office of Comptroller of the Currency ( OCC ) has reported on
the actions taken by 12 servicers to comply with consent order issued in April
t...
Tue, Nov 22 2011, 1:27 PM
The National Mortgage Licensing System
reports that, as of the end of the third quarter of 2011, over one-quarter
million mortgage licenses are held...
Mon, Nov 21 2011, 11:57 AM
Sales of existing homes improved in October while
inventories declined according to the National Association of Realtors® monthly
report. Total sa...
Mon, Nov 21 2011, 11:20 AM
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Mon, Nov 21 2011, 11:13 AM
Versus a forecast of 4.80 mln unit annual rate, today's Existing Home Sales figure of 4.97 mln seems like a good piece of better-than-expected data. ...
Mon, Nov 21 2011, 10:05 AM
Lots of
people in the real estate & mortgage businesses make a lot of money. As we
head toward Thanksgiving, sometimes it is a good thing to remembe...
Mon, Nov 21 2011, 8:34 AM
Markets will be officially closed on Thursday in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Althoug SIFMA recommends an "early close" for Friday's tradi...
Mon, Nov 21 2011, 4:31 PM
Freddie Mac's November Economic Outlook
holds some good news for the economy as a whole, but the housing picture
remains relatively bleak. Thir...
Mon, Nov 21 2011, 4:30 PM
Today was a quiet for Mortgage Rates . Although several lenders released improved rate sheets later in the day, the overall landscape of rate sheet ...
Mon, Nov 21 2011, 4:20 PM
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Mon, Nov 21 2011, 3:56 PM
The most recent alert and market snapshot from MBS Live:
MBS Hit Highs of The Day. Potential Rate Sheet Improvements 2:08PM
We've seen a fe...
Sun, Nov 20 2011, 9:54 PM
"They've
invented a microwave fireplace. Now you can sit by the fire all evening
in just three minutes."
It takes
less than three minutes to br...
Fri, Nov 18 2011, 11:18 AM
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Fri, Nov 18 2011, 10:03 AM
If you
changed residences between 2010 and 2010, congratulations: less than 12% of the U.S. population moved during that time , the
lowest recorded...
Fri, Nov 18 2011, 8:29 AM
When 10yr yields and MBS both hit 3pm at essentially the same levels as 11/9, and subsequently pulled back, it suggested that we might have hit some s...
Fri, Nov 18 2011, 4:18 PM
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Fri, Nov 18 2011, 3:13 PM
After experiencing a rare 3rd day in a row of neutrality or positivity, Mortgage Rates
pulled back up a bit today. In most cases, this won't affe...
Fri, Nov 18 2011, 2:12 PM
Some moderately coherent ramblings from last night's recap on MBS Live to set up today's:
"What is clear is that whatever writing was seen on th...
Fri, Nov 18 2011, 1:37 PM
President Barack Obama signed a bill Friday
that reinstates the recently expired higher loan limits that were in effect for
FHA and VA loans throu...
Fri, Nov 18 2011, 1:28 PM
Fannie Mae's November Economics and
Mortgage Market Analysis released this morning cites the depressed sentiments
from the Conference Board consume...
Thu, Nov 17 2011, 11:44 AM
Building permits were issued at a
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 653,000 in October, 10.9 percent above the downwardly
revised (from 594,000) S...
Thu, Nov 17 2011, 11:20 AM
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Thu, Nov 17 2011, 11:05 AM
Previously delinquent loans that Freddie
Mac was required by contract to repurchase from its Mortgage Participation
Certificate (PC) pools are abou...
Thu, Nov 17 2011, 11:01 AM
One week
until Thanksgiving - time flies. What's in a name? Plenty. For example, the
name of the Athletic Director at the University of Texas is DeL...
Thu, Nov 17 2011, 10:56 AM
One week
until Thanksgiving - time flies. What's in a name? Plenty. For example, the
name of the Athletic Director at the University of Texas is DeL...
Thu, Nov 17 2011, 8:23 AM
More of the same from the EU overnight. Here's the morning alert from MBS Live.
Tediously Familiar Risk-Off Trade Benefit Treasuries Overnight...
Thu, Nov 17 2011, 4:23 PM
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Thu, Nov 17 2011, 3:58 PM
Yesterday we noted that things seemed "quiet, almost too quiet." As is sometimes the case with such episodes of quietness, it resulted in some volati...
Thu, Nov 17 2011, 2:33 PM
The markets have seemed to calm down a bit this week , after last week’s fairly volatile price action. The 30-year current coupon spread to interpola...
Thu, Nov 17 2011, 2:03 PM
Seasonally adjusted mortgage
delinquencies fell 45 basis points (bp) from the second to the third quarter of
2011 to a seasonally adjusted rate of...
