Thu, Jan 5 2012, 11:24 AM
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Thu, Jan 5 2012, 8:41 AM
The overnight session was fairly lackluster although volume clearly continues to build into the new year. 10yr yields traded a range inside the highs ...
Thu, Jan 5 2012, 4:24 PM
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Thu, Jan 5 2012, 4:07 PM
Mortgage Rates
continue to demonstrate an uncanny stability at all-time-lows. As far as the actual rates being quoted, nothing has changed. Best-E...
Thu, Jan 5 2012, 4:06 PM
Holes are being filled in the story of the controversial appointment of Rich Cordray as director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB...
Thu, Jan 5 2012, 1:41 PM
The ADP Employment figures that come out each month, 2 days before The Employment Situation Report (1 day before this month due to the shortened week)...
Wed, Jan 4 2012, 11:24 AM
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Wed, Jan 4 2012, 11:09 AM
The Office of Comptroller of the
Currency (OCC) is rolling out its first public service announcements to alert
consumers about the Independent Fore...
Wed, Jan 4 2012, 10:27 AM
As part of the temporary resolution to the recent battle over the Tax Cut Extension that took place in the last weeks of December, Congress decided ...
Wed, Jan 4 2012, 10:17 AM
Any ship
can be a minesweeper - once. But not "once in a while." This note
reached me: "Rob, every once in a while you'll mention 'AOT' like everyon...
Wed, Jan 4 2012, 9:48 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association
released an abbreviated report Wednesday on mortgage activity over the two week
Christmas and New Year's holiday ...
Wed, Jan 4 2012, 8:24 AM
The day kicks off on positive note for bond markets which have held their gains at the start of the New York session. This follows on the heels of a ...
Wed, Jan 4 2012, 5:41 PM
In a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the
Senate Banking and House Financial Services Committees on Wednesday, Federal Reserve
Chairman B...
Wed, Jan 4 2012, 4:29 PM
Mortgage Rates
continue to operate at the same Best-Execution levels with only minor variations in borrowing costs between lenders on any given day....
Wed, Jan 4 2012, 4:24 PM
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Wed, Jan 4 2012, 3:46 PM
Although it's not unheard of for a lender to show up late to a "reprice-for-the-worse" party after MBS prices are noticeably bouncing back, the risks ...
Tue, Jan 3 2012, 12:15 PM
As expected, volume has been significantly better than in recent holiday weeks, although still nowhere near early December norms. MBS and Treasuries ...
Tue, Jan 3 2012, 11:58 AM
The
major private mortgage insurers wrote 25,074 new policies in November against
27,970 applications received for coverage.
According to the mont...
Tue, Jan 3 2012, 11:19 AM
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Tue, Jan 3 2012, 11:10 AM
The U.S.
Census Bureau projected the Jan. 1, 2012, total United States population at
312,780,968. This would represent an increase of 2,250,129, or ...
Tue, Jan 3 2012, 10:07 AM
Although yesterday was a Federal holiday and we should have all had the day off, the number of residential lender, investor, and MI
updates in the ...
Tue, Jan 3 2012, 8:28 AM
Although we begin another week with only four trading days, the week
ahead is a different breed than the last few of December, which for the
most ...
Tue, Jan 3 2012, 4:19 PM
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Tue, Jan 3 2012, 4:00 PM
Mortgage Rates are slightly higher to begin the new year, but Best-Execution levels remain intact at 3.875%. That being the case, most loan scenario...
Fri, Dec 30 2011, 12:20 PM
September 21st, 2011 was a very important day for MBS, perhaps the most important since the Fed initially announced their intent to purchase MBS outri...
Fri, Dec 30 2011, 11:19 AM
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Fri, Dec 30 2011, 9:48 AM
We wrap up
the year with the S&P (a better broad measure of stock performance than the
DOW) essentially flat on the year, but 10-yr yields nearly 1....
Fri, Dec 30 2011, 8:25 AM
Today promises to be another low volume and uninspired session, as were the Asian and European sessions overnight. Volumes remain in line with their ...
Fri, Dec 30 2011, 4:19 PM
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Fri, Dec 30 2011, 1:45 PM
Mortgage Rates have been operating in the 3.875% best-execution range for several weeks now with the only day-to-day variations being seen in the are...
Thu, Dec 29 2011, 11:48 AM
Who says
that folks in the mortgage business can't rhyme ?
If you're away from your home, and you come back and find that a pipe has
burst, a...
Thu, Dec 29 2011, 11:19 AM
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Thu, Dec 29 2011, 8:15 AM
Today clearly contains the highest magnitude of domestic economic reports this week. With volumes having been between 20-40% of recent averages over ...
Thu, Dec 29 2011, 4:23 PM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR)
announced on Thursday that pending home sales in November reached the highest
levels seen in 19 months. ...
Thu, Dec 29 2011, 4:19 PM
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Thu, Dec 29 2011, 3:28 PM
Mortgage Rates took the day off from the faster-paced improvements seen yesterday, and instead improved only in small amounts. Even then, nothing ha...
Thu, Dec 29 2011, 1:40 PM
As expected/feared, this morning's economic data did little to rouse holiday-sedated markets. In fact, if it weren't for the somewhat interesting fact...
Wed, Dec 28 2011, 12:12 PM
The cliche quip "It's the economy, stupid" is under consideration to be revised to "it's the European economy, stupid," or perhaps even "it's the stup...
Wed, Dec 28 2011, 11:23 AM
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Wed, Dec 28 2011, 11:16 AM
Overheard
recently: "I love Christmas lights - they remind me of some co-workers.
They all hang together, half of them don't work, and the ones that...
Wed, Dec 28 2011, 8:26 AM
One day in to the post Christmas/ Pre -New-Year holiday week and it's shaping up to be the slowest in years. Not only is that slowness seen in terms ...
Wed, Dec 28 2011, 4:23 PM
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Wed, Dec 28 2011, 2:40 PM
Unlike yesterday's uneventful market movements, Mortgage Rates
are noticeably improved today. While volume remains quite light in general due to a...
Tue, Dec 27 2011, 11:18 AM
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Tue, Dec 27 2011, 10:29 AM
Saturday
night, while you were pleasantly dreaming of presents, the cookies for Santa
had a different experience .
FHA lenders had reason fo...
Tue, Dec 27 2011, 8:24 AM
Last week saw a steep sell-off in bond markets as low volume and a limited amount of participation paved the way for domination by whichever side of t...
Tue, Dec 27 2011, 4:23 PM
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Tue, Dec 27 2011, 2:23 PM
After getting pushed higher in low volume trading late last week, Mortgage Rates
are roughly unchanged today, although market volume remains exceed...
Tue, Dec 27 2011, 1:11 PM
While home prices continued to decline in October, the
S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices released on Tuesday indicate that the
downward trend ma...
Tue, Dec 27 2011, 1:09 PM
Over the weeks and months of 2011, MBS and Treasuries have had their attention pulled in many different directions, at times paying careful attention ...
