Thu, Aug 25 2011, 8:28 AM
Treasuries are firmer in early trading Thursday while U.S. equity futures are mixed after three straight sessions of gains this week.
The two-year ...
Thu, Aug 25 2011, 4:22 PM
Yesterday, a recent losing streak for loan pricing boiled over and Mortgage
Rates rose across the board. Today offered a slight reprieve to yes...
Thu, Aug 25 2011, 4:16 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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FNMA 3.5
100-29 : +0-15
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Wed, Aug 24 2011, 11:33 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has released its Weekly Mortgage Applications
Survey for the week ending August 19, 2011.
With purchase mo...
Wed, Aug 24 2011, 11:15 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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FNMA 3.5
100-29 : +0-03
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Wed, Aug 24 2011, 10:09 AM
Fannie,
Freddie, and the US Government aren't the only entities struggling with debt. The
U.S. Post Office is expected to hit its $15 billion borro...
Wed, Aug 24 2011, 8:28 AM
A weak session in Asia following Moody's one-notch downgrade of Japan's credit rating to Aa3 has markets looking cautious ahead of Friday's speech fro...
Wed, Aug 24 2011, 4:34 PM
Yesterday, we noted pressure building on BestExecution rates. Today, things boiled over unfavorably and the loan pricing losing streak extended int...
Wed, Aug 24 2011, 4:16 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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FNMA 3.5
100-08 : -0-19
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Wed, Aug 24 2011, 1:29 PM
There's about 30 minutes left before another hourly mark is plotted on the following chart of 10yr yields. Yes, of course 10yr yields don't dictate m...
Wed, Aug 24 2011, 1:16 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA )
has released its seasonally adjusted purchase-only house price index (HPI) for
the second quarter of 2...
Tue, Aug 23 2011, 12:21 PM
Jay Brinkmann, the Mortgage Bankers Association's
(MBA's) Chief Economist, told reporters on Monday that MBA's National
Delinquency Survey (NDS) f...
Tue, Aug 23 2011, 12:16 PM
The sales of new single-family houses fell slightly in July
to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 298,000. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Depa...
Tue, Aug 23 2011, 11:24 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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101-09 : +0-07
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Tue, Aug 23 2011, 10:39 AM
Who is
Deven Sharma? He is the latest person to quit his job. Ordinarily this wouldn't
be a big deal, but he was the president of Standard & Poor...
Tue, Aug 23 2011, 8:43 AM
Global investor sentiment is a little more buoyant Tuesday despite some less than stellar economic data and news, including UBS announcing it will cut...
Tue, Aug 23 2011, 4:20 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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Tue, Aug 23 2011, 4:17 PM
The title of the post makes things sound more serious than they are. In fact, other than continuing to operate near all-time levels, things aren't th...
Tue, Aug 23 2011, 3:30 PM
Consumer borrowing costs rose marginally today, marking the third consecutive session where mortgage rates have ticked slightly higher. Although we'r...
Mon, Aug 22 2011, 12:43 PM
The third quarter is shaping up to
be the best in 2011 from the standpoint of mortgage originations according to
the Mortgage Bankers Association (M...
Mon, Aug 22 2011, 11:24 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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101-03 : -0-12
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Mon, Aug 22 2011, 10:20 AM
No wonder
companies are hiring. The Mortgage Bankers Association raised its forecast
for loan production this year to $1.1 trillion in residential ...
Mon, Aug 22 2011, 9:33 AM
A "risk-off" environment helped bonds rally last week and led mortgage rates back into record low territory. Weak economic data around the world and ...
Mon, Aug 22 2011, 4:24 PM
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FNMA 3.5
101-10 : -0-04
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Mon, Aug 22 2011, 4:05 PM
Despite a volatile back-drop, mortgage rates
continue to hover near all-time lows.
Monday's offerings are little
changed from Friday (in some ...
Mon, Aug 22 2011, 3:32 PM
Today has been exceedingly boring and sideways for MBS and Treasuries alike. But to an even greater extent than their benchmark big brothers, MBS hav...
Fri, Aug 19 2011, 11:24 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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FNMA 3.5
101-14 : -0-10
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Fri, Aug 19 2011, 10:18 AM
Every
month we hear about existing home sales , with the usual quote from
someone at the NAR. (This time around, Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist,...
Fri, Aug 19 2011, 9:05 AM
Another sickly day in Europe has the U.S. stock market ready to open more than 1% lower Friday, and even Treasury yields are backing up a bit.
"Eur...
Fri, Aug 19 2011, 4:19 PM
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FNMA 4.0 104-06 : -0-11
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Fri, Aug 19 2011, 3:36 PM
More than a few of you have asked for a chart of the relative performance of MBS versus Treasuries. Here a couple quickies that I think really illust...
Fri, Aug 19 2011, 2:22 PM
Despite a volatile back-drop, mortgage rates continue to hover near all-time lows.
The reason we bring up volatility again is, although many len...
Thu, Aug 18 2011, 12:17 PM
The National Association of Realtors ®
reported today that existing-home sales in July were down from the previous
month but were significantly h...
Thu, Aug 18 2011, 12:15 PM
The housing boom created a rich climate
for mortgage fraud and while the bust that followed the boom has changed the
nature of the crime, it has pro...
Thu, Aug 18 2011, 11:17 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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FNMA 3.5
101-28 : +0-11
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Thu, Aug 18 2011, 9:32 AM
Does it
seem more crowded around here than ten years ago? Maybe not in Detroit, or in Kansas, but around the world, the
population is expected to h...
Thu, Aug 18 2011, 8:26 AM
Treasury prices are soaring and equity futures are tumbling and as a major equity sell-off in Europe has crossed the Atlantic, triggered by renewed co...
Thu, Aug 18 2011, 4:17 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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FNMA 3.5
101-20 : +0-02
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Thu, Aug 18 2011, 4:11 PM
Today is one of those days where the importance of NOT paying attention to
the Treasury market for mortgage rate indications is strikingly clear. Al...
Thu, Aug 18 2011, 3:51 PM
Lots to cover so we'll dig right into it. First of all, it's hard to miss the fact that 10yr notes dipped below 2% today . 10's are still nearly a ...
Wed, Aug 17 2011, 11:55 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage
Application Survey for the week ending August 12, 2010. MBA's Market Co...
Wed, Aug 17 2011, 11:39 AM
Uncertainty and apprehension appear to
be influencing the economy as much as reality according to the latest National
Housing Survey (NHS) condu...
Wed, Aug 17 2011, 11:17 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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FNMA 3.5
101-10 : -0-01
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Wed, Aug 17 2011, 9:04 AM
We're in
the middle of baseball season, and here's a non-mortgage video that has people
saying, "No way": BatterUp!
Small banks can still origi...
Wed, Aug 17 2011, 8:29 AM
Treasuries are steady and equities are rising Wednesday morning as investors shift focus from European debt problems to macroeconomic data and corpora...
Wed, Aug 17 2011, 4:17 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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FNMA 3.5
101-20 : +0-10
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Wed, Aug 17 2011, 4:02 PM
Borrowing costs improved once again today. Mortgage rates are hovering near all-time lows.
Though many lenders have greatly improved their cons...
Tue, Aug 16 2011, 11:21 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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FNMA 3.5
100-25 : -0-01
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Tue, Aug 16 2011, 11:06 AM
Builder confidence in the housing market
remained unchanged in August according to the National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Hous...
Tue, Aug 16 2011, 10:52 AM
The
winner of the "pot calling the kettle black" award for this week goes
to U.S. Rep. Tom Graves, who was calling for fiscal responsibility in
Was...
