Wed, Sep 28 2011, 8:53 AM
Global markets are mixed as European officials quarrel over the terms of Greece's bailout package, but the U.S. market looks to another day of equity ...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 5:30 PM
From MBSonMND : "Things have no doubt been volatile this week. We continue to hear and see that this has more to do with month and quarter-end positi...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 4:42 PM
After several days of progressively
worse Mortgage Rates , things turned around a bit
today. Or rather, it might be better to
say that things ...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 4:19 PM
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Wed, Sep 28 2011, 2:42 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is requesting public comment on two
alternative mortgage servicing compensation structures . The propos...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 1:57 PM
HOPE
Now, which was the first program initiated to deal with the mounting foreclosure
problem in 2007, has reached a level of 4.86 million loan mod...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 11:19 AM
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Tue, Sep 27 2011, 11:05 AM
Some
things you just can't make up. Arch West died last week of natural causes at
the age of 97, and when he is buried this weekend, Arch West will ...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 10:56 AM
Home prices rose for the fourth straight month according to
the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for July which were released
Tuesday. Whil...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 8:40 AM
Global equity markets continue to rally Tuesday as investors bet on Europe finding a solution for its various debt problems.
The Treasury market is...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 5:11 PM
Despite a bit of a bounce back late in the day, MBS sank to 102-00 in Fannie 3.5's by 3pm today. This was the highest that 3.5's traded the morning o...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 4:50 PM
Mortgage Rates continued higher today with Best-Execution
rates about an eighth of a point higher.
There are
all sorts of challenges in the ...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 4:19 PM
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Tue, Sep 27 2011, 3:39 PM
Freddie Mac's September 2011 Economic Outlook is focused on the recent Federal Reserve Bank announcement of its Maturity
Extension Program (aka Ope...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 11:48 AM
Sales of new single-family homes continue to drag along the bottom of their all-time range. In the most recent estimate released jointly by the Censu...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 11:23 AM
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Mon, Sep 26 2011, 10:27 AM
Have you
ever heard of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council? I must
admit that I hadn't, until it released its latest report which...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 8:39 AM
Treasuries are little changed from Friday's levels but the stock market, after losing more than 6% last week, is preparing to rebound in early trading...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 5:03 PM
After two days of significant
improvements, Mortgage
Rates took a measured step back on Friday.
Best-Execution rates rose about an eighth of a ...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 4:26 PM
A few charts for the afternoon... First, we'll take a look at a short term chart of 10yr note yields vs the S&P index. It's fairly common that we se...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 4:23 PM
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Mon, Sep 26 2011, 3:14 PM
The latest Campbell/Inside Mortgage
Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey , released on Monday, has a pair of
findings that should be distressing ...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 2:55 PM
The New York Fed released it's FAQS (frequently asked questions) on the reinvestment of Agency debt payments into MBS announced in Wednesday's FOMC St...
Fri, Sep 23 2011, 11:50 AM
For the first time in seven quarters the
level of outstanding commercial/multifamily mortgage debt grew in the U.S
according to information releas...
Fri, Sep 23 2011, 11:23 AM
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Fri, Sep 23 2011, 10:24 AM
Hopefully
failing a breathalyzer test doesn't happen to any mortgage bankers tonight
after Happy Hour.
Folks who
are hedging a pipeline, or wh...
Fri, Sep 23 2011, 8:52 AM
Treasuries are little changed this morning following the massive flattening of the yield curve that's taken place since Wednesday's FOMC statement. Eq...
Fri, Sep 23 2011, 4:23 PM
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Fri, Sep 23 2011, 3:57 PM
After two days of significant improvements, Mortgage Rates took a measured
step back today. Best-Execution rates
rose about an eighth of a point...
Thu, Sep 22 2011, 11:45 AM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency's House
Price Index (HPI) for July indicates that seasonally adjusted house prices rose
0.8 percent in July. A...
Thu, Sep 22 2011, 11:20 AM
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Thu, Sep 22 2011, 10:32 AM
Sometimes
things aren't always what they seem. For example, http://www.wimp.com/sweetride/ .
One would
hope that a major US bank is what it seem...
Thu, Sep 22 2011, 8:26 AM
Wednesday's FOMC announcement initiated a sell-off in U.S. equities that rippled across the globe overnight . U.S. equity futures are now responding ...
Thu, Sep 22 2011, 5:17 PM
After yesterday's FOMC Announcement, Mortgage Rates moved to all time
lows. The rally in bond markets extended
overnight and throughout today's tra...
Thu, Sep 22 2011, 4:27 PM
First of all, let's be clear: we're not saying 10yr yields are definitely going to 1.5%. But we've heard the news that some folks think it's possible...
Thu, Sep 22 2011, 4:20 PM
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Thu, Sep 22 2011, 4:00 PM
Last week RadarLogic, a real estate data and analytics
company, submitted a proposal, which we covered here , to
the Federal Housing Finance Agency...
Wed, Sep 21 2011, 11:24 AM
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Wed, Sep 21 2011, 11:06 AM
I handed
the teller at my bank a withdrawal slip for $400.00. I said "May I have
large bills, please." She looked at me and said, "I'm sorry sir, al...
Wed, Sep 21 2011, 9:53 AM
The
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported this morning that mortgage applications rose slightly during the week ended September 16. The chan...
Wed, Sep 21 2011, 8:20 AM
Market focus will be on the Federal Reserve today as traders wait to see whether the Fed will engage in further quantitative easing. The expectation...
Wed, Sep 21 2011, 5:16 PM
Yesterday we wrote: "Until we see proof that the Secondary Mortgage Market
can break higher than its recent highs, we're hesitant to outright PLAN on...
Wed, Sep 21 2011, 4:15 PM
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Wed, Sep 21 2011, 3:03 PM
Here's the alert MBSonMND subscribers received shortly after the FOMC statement:
2:58 PM; Reprices for the Better Likely as FOMC Statement Ro...
Wed, Sep 21 2011, 2:22 PM
Despite what they referred to as " headwinds ,"
the National Association of Realtors (NAR)® reported on Wednesday that sales of
existing homes wer...
Tue, Sep 20 2011, 11:19 AM
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Tue, Sep 20 2011, 10:54 AM
It used to
be that people who walked down the street arguing with nobody there were deemed
"crazy". When cellphones first got overly popular, my mo...
Tue, Sep 20 2011, 8:30 AM
Markets are a little more upbeat this morning as Treasuries reverse course from Monday and equity futures prepare for a rebound after shedding nearly ...
Tue, Sep 20 2011, 4:24 PM
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Tue, Sep 20 2011, 2:46 PM
Some overnight news out of Europe did a small amount of damage to bond
markets earlier this morning and based on market levels, Mortgage
Rates wer...
