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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96-13 : +0-14
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fri, Apr 29 2011, 10:52 AM
Japan is out for 黄金週間 ( Golden Week ) and London is shut down for the Royal Wedding . Add in event exhaustion and another high-risk event in the ...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 8:28 AM
Rates moved mostly sideways overnight before making a break through key resistance early in the N.Y. session. Trading volume was low as Japan has chec...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 4:16 PM
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Fri, Apr 29 2011, 3:35 PM
Home loan borrowing costs ended the week near their most aggressive levels of the year.
The chart below illustrates how borrowing costs have behav...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 1:22 PM
The
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has directed Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to
establish consistent mortgage loan servicing and delinquenc...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 12:10 PM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) released its March Pending
Home Sales Index (PHSI ) . The index is said to be a leading indicator for...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 11:16 AM
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95-07 : +0-16
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Thu, Apr 28 2011, 11:16 AM
Federal
Reserve Governor Elizabeth A Duke told a Community Affairs Research Conference
on Thursday that, while every community across the country ha...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 10:32 AM
Fun with
numbers: Freddie Mac's mortgage delinquencies on single-family homes declined
in March from both month- and year-earlier levels. March's de...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 8:27 AM
The bond market shrugged off a warmer inflation outlook from the Fed yesterday and instead chose to focus on its transitory effects which include a mo...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 5:24 PM
Home loan borrowing costs improved enough today to say Best-Execution
mortgage rates could be considered "in the process of" a shift lower. This does...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 4:30 PM
Yesterday the mid 3.34's clearly emerged as a resistance level in benchmark 10s....which they were unable to break. As we often discuss, yesterday's ...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 4:16 PM
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95-07 : +0-15
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Thu, Apr 28 2011, 2:17 PM
In a
telephone press conference this afternoon U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan awarded more than $216 million to nearl...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 12:20 PM
Treasury just auctioned $35bn 5s. The bid to cover ratio, a measure of auction demand, was 2.77 bids submitted for every 1 accepted by Treasury. This...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 11:17 AM
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Wed, Apr 27 2011, 9:58 AM
Huh? Maybe Freddie and Fannie are
not going to evaporate, which many in the industry were not looking forward to
anyway: MSNBCAgencies
One se...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 9:37 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week
ending April 22, 2011.
The MBA's lo...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 8:37 AM
The Federal Reserve will make history today when the Chairman of the Board stands before the media to usher in a new era of transparency in monetary p...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 4:26 PM
Today's much anticipated high risk event, the FOMC Statement and subsequent press
conference, leaves fence-sitters unscathed as no changes in home lo...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 4:17 PM
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Wed, Apr 27 2011, 3:34 PM
The U.S
Census Bureau has released Residential Vacancies and Homeownership data for
the first quarter of 2011.
The data is derived from th...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 1:51 PM
Plain and Simple: The Fed acknowledged that inflation has
picked up recently but is still expected to be "transitory". Thus
rates will be kept lo...
Tue, Apr 26 2011, 11:20 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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94-22 : +0-04
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Tue, Apr 26 2011, 9:53 AM
The trivia
for the day is, "Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is
attached at only one end." I bring this up because there will be ple...
