Tue, May 10 2011, 10:31 AM
Yesterday
I went through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - which
are now the 5 stages of buying gas.
Incidents of mortga...
Tue, May 10 2011, 9:58 AM
The April edition of the Housing Scorecard has been issued by
Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It showed "con...
Tue, May 10 2011, 8:16 AM
Benchmark interest rates traveled higher early in in the overnight session after positive data from China set global equity markets on an upward path....
Tue, May 10 2011, 4:17 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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Tue, May 10 2011, 3:46 PM
After spending the first four months of 2011 in a tight range, the primary
mortgage market is still in the midst of a potentially significant shift l...
Tue, May 10 2011, 3:27 PM
May Freddie and Fannie 30 year fixed MBS coupon have begun the
settlement process and it will soon look like MBS prices just plummeted.
WHY??? ...
Tue, May 10 2011, 1:56 PM
Treasury auctioned $32bn 3s. The bid to cover ratio, a measure of auction demand, was 3.29 bids submitted for every one accepted by TSY. That is ...
Mon, May 9 2011, 11:17 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Mon, May 9 2011, 10:22 AM
Today the village of Plato, Mo.,
(population 109) will celebrate its selection as the "2010 Census Center
of Population" with a little party. "The m...
Mon, May 9 2011, 9:16 AM
The monthly Employment Situation Report was expected to be the market's main focus last week, instead plunging commodities prices stole the show and p...
Mon, May 9 2011, 4:36 PM
Not only was today quiet in terms of trading volume, but there wasn't much directionality in charts either. Ranges were narrow and only tightened as t...
Mon, May 9 2011, 4:17 PM
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96-18 : +0-04
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Mon, May 9 2011, 3:36 PM
After spending the first four months of 2011 in a tight range, the primary
mortgage market is now in the midst of a potentially significant shift low...
Fri, May 6 2011, 11:41 AM
As Dodd-Frank loan officer compensation regulations became a reality in early April, I started seeing new pay practices emerge in my reviews.
Sever...
Fri, May 6 2011, 11:17 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Fri, May 6 2011, 10:55 AM
Freddie
Mac reported on Thursday that homeowners continue to hit barriers when looking to refinance their home, although it's not clear whether this ...
Fri, May 6 2011, 10:46 AM
Figures released by the Mortgage Bankers Association
(MBA) indicate that commercial and multifamily mortgage market may be coming
back to life.
...
Fri, May 6 2011, 10:37 AM
The driving force behind Mother's
Day was Anna Jarvis, who organized observances in Grafton, W.Va., and
Philadelphia on May 10, 1908. As the annual ...
Fri, May 6 2011, 9:30 AM
The April Employment Situation Report has been released.
Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 244,000 in April, and the unemployment rate edged u...
Fri, May 6 2011, 4:17 PM
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Fri, May 6 2011, 2:57 PM
After spending the first four months of 2011 in a tight range, the primary mortgage market is now in
the midst of a potentially significant shift low...
Thu, May 5 2011, 11:17 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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96-04 : +0-05
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Thu, May 5 2011, 11:00 AM
For over
three years the news has been filled with discussions of foreclosures, mortgage
fraud, derivatives, the failure of Freddie Mac and Fannie M...
Thu, May 5 2011, 10:42 AM
Cinco de Mayo does not mark the
discovery of tequila, but instead celebrates the legendary Battle of Puebla on
May 5, 1862, in which a Mexican force...
Thu, May 5 2011, 8:20 AM
Benchmark interest rates inched even lower last night as investors geared up for Friday's nonfarm payrolls report. Bonds have been rallying for four w...
Thu, May 5 2011, 5:12 PM
After spending the first four months of 2011 in a tight range, we're now in
the midst of a potentially significant shift lower in home loan
borrowin...
Thu, May 5 2011, 4:51 PM
The April Employment Situation Report will be released tomorrow morning. In advance of this high-profile economic event, a wind of fundamental change ...
Thu, May 5 2011, 4:17 PM
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Thu, May 5 2011, 1:02 PM
Every foreclosure related report that issued during the last
few months has increased certainty that the millions of delinquencies and
foreclosures ...
Wed, May 4 2011, 12:09 PM
Both benchmark rates and production MBS coupon prices have bounced around a large yet well-defined range so far in 2011. There have been moments when...
Wed, May 4 2011, 11:21 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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95-31 : +0-08
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Wed, May 4 2011, 10:00 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week
ending April 29, 2011.
The MBA's lo...
Wed, May 4 2011, 9:26 AM
Senior loan officers responding to the April 2011 Federal
Reserve Bank survey on bank lending practices indicated that, on net, bank
lending sta...
Wed, May 4 2011, 8:47 AM
This plan
is simple, like my brother-in-law Tony. But unlike Tony, this plan just might
work.
When an
originator locks a loan with an investor o...
Wed, May 4 2011, 8:13 AM
Benchmark yields shot lower on the Japanese open last night but have since backed up a few bps as traders trimmed profits and balanced positions ahead...
Wed, May 4 2011, 4:17 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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Wed, May 4 2011, 2:36 PM
After spending the first four months of 2011 in a tight range, we may be witnessing the early stages of a significant shift lower in home loan borrow...
Wed, May 4 2011, 1:21 PM
Last month
marked the 151st anniversary of the Pony Express, the communications link from
St. Joseph to San Francisco. News and mail took 11 days (w...
Tue, May 3 2011, 11:24 AM
This article was originally published in the May issue of Asset Securitization Report As part of a joint initiative, the FHFA and HUD recently rele...
Tue, May 3 2011, 11:16 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Tue, May 3 2011, 4:21 PM
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Mon, May 2 2011, 11:16 AM
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Mon, May 2 2011, 11:15 AM
Builders who specialize in home remodeling are seeing a better market than
they have in years according to the National Association of Home Builders'...
Mon, May 2 2011, 9:18 AM
Occasionally
I receive e-mails that are worth saving. Like the one where someone wrote,
"Your vocabulary is as bad as, like, whatever." And some web...
Mon, May 2 2011, 8:53 AM
Can killing the world's most infamous terrorist give a boost to global equity markets?
The markets unambiguously answer: yep. After President Oba...
Mon, May 2 2011, 4:42 PM
Home loan borrowing costs ended last week near their most aggressive levels of the year. Little has changed from Friday...check out this chart of ...
Mon, May 2 2011, 4:16 PM
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Mon, May 2 2011, 3:09 PM
Almost every American is a renter at some point in his life
but today both economic conditions and demographic forces are increasing rental
demand...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 11:18 AM
Do boom
and bust cycles in real estate only happen in the United States? Of course not: Boom&Bust
Here's a campaign hitting the public: Zillo...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 11:16 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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