Wed, Apr 4 2012, 11:19 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Bond markets continue to trade in better territory than yesterday's weakest levels. Most of the impr...
Wed, Apr 4 2012, 8:02 AM
MBS went cliff-diving on Tuesday following the release of the FOMC Minutes from the 3/13/11 meeting. Interesting that it was the 3/13/11 meeting th...
Wed, Apr 4 2012, 4:17 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
MBS and Treasuries have both been eerily quiet today when viewed against the backdrop of yesterday'...
Wed, Apr 4 2012, 2:26 PM
Mortgages Rates improved only moderately today despite a stronger bounce back in underlying bond markets. The Best-Execution Conventional 30y...
Tue, Apr 3 2012, 11:15 AM
MBS L ive : MBS Morning Market Summary
The market is doing relatively nothing to hide the fact that it's holding its breath ahead of today...
Tue, Apr 3 2012, 7:54 AM
Bond markets continued to tiptoe around the task of hinting at any forceful commitment in one direction or another yesterday, and clues were in shor...
Tue, Apr 3 2012, 5:01 PM
Mortgages Rates got crushed today, relatively speaking. It's ironic that we noted yesterday's rates as getting close to 3/13's levels because tod...
Tue, Apr 3 2012, 4:29 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
MBS have sold off mightily in the wake of today's FOMC minutes. The many alerts do a good job of recap...
Mon, Apr 2 2012, 12:46 AM
Bond markets coasted into Friday afternoon in eerily stable fashion, and seemed set to head out for the weekend in significantly better territory than...
Mon, Apr 2 2012, 2:23 PM
After moving higher on Friday afternoon, Mortgages Rates eased back down to Thursday's levels, leaving them in slightly better shape than most of...
Fri, Mar 30 2012, 12:25 AM
For bond markets, yesterday was essentially a reassertion of Wednesday's strongest levels. Well, maybe it was also a failed attempt to confirm a brea...
Fri, Mar 30 2012, 11:34 AM
The day has been woefully uneventful so far, at least with respect to what it might have been... Rather than get any sort of meaningful "vote" from m...
Fri, Mar 30 2012, 10:29 AM
My interest was recently piqued by a report in National Mortgage News entitled “Confidential Report: Jumbo Conduits Folding.” The report stated t...
Fri, Mar 30 2012, 4:12 PM
MBS Live : MBS RECAP
Things could have gone either way into this month-end/quarter-end trading day, either running out of steam at recent highs ...
Fri, Mar 30 2012, 3:20 PM
After improving yesterday, Mortgages Rates moved higher today , falling roughly in line with mid-week offerings depending on the lender . The wea...
Thu, Mar 29 2012, 12:03 AM
Wednesday's trade was volatile . S&P's moved almost 20 points lower and almost 10 points back higher by the end of the session, MBS hit n ew multi-w...
Thu, Mar 29 2012, 11:16 AM
MBS Live : Improved After Data, Holding Pattern Until Auction
Things have been fairly uneventful following the morning data. MBS and Treasuries b...
Thu, Mar 29 2012, 4:16 PM
MBS Live : MBS RECAP
MBS had a good day heading into the 7yr auction after getting a lift from this morning's uneventful GDP and big upward revi...
Thu, Mar 29 2012, 3:32 PM
After holding steady yesterday, Mortgages Rates moved slightly lower today , hitting their best levels since March 13 th . Lender offerings ha...
Wed, Mar 28 2012, 11:52 AM
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MBS and Treasuries got a boost in general from earlier news that Germany is pushing to limit the expansion of EU bailout ...
Wed, Mar 28 2012, 4:19 PM
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Wed, Mar 28 2012, 2:43 PM
Mortgages Rates broke a sideways streak to move lower yesterday, but are right back to their 'sideways ways' today! This keeps the Conventional ...
Wed, Mar 28 2012, 1:01 AM
Yesterday's rally was impressive inasmuch as it was a calm, directional move to higher prices for MBS (lower yields for benchmarks such as 10yr ...
Tue, Mar 27 2012, 11:14 AM
MBS Live : MBS MID-DAY
The bond market rally that began with this morning's stronger opening levels, continues into the 11am hour after the earl...
Tue, Mar 27 2012, 4:09 PM
MBS Live : MBS RECAP
Too many days like today and we'll be sitting ducks for the next gyration to the downside in bond prices... Today w...
Tue, Mar 27 2012, 3:28 PM
Mortgages Rates were eerily quiet over the past 3 sessions, but they broke that streak today to move lower . The Conventional 30yr Fixed Best-Execu...
Tue, Mar 27 2012, 2:14 AM
While Tuesday's calendar of events is by no means the most robust of the week, it marks a noticeable acceleration from that of Monday, especially in...
Mon, Mar 26 2012, 11:12 AM
MBS Live : MBS MID-DAY
Volatility has been the name of the game this morning, although that theme has been playing out more for Treasuries than ...
Mon, Mar 26 2012, 8:10 AM
With all the recent preference given to "tradeflows and technicals" in our analysis, we see the week ahead as standing a good chance of merging those ...
Mon, Mar 26 2012, 4:09 PM
MBS Live : Volatile Session, But Contained
Both MBS and Treasuries made trips between their highs and lows several times in rapid succession ear...
Mon, Mar 26 2012, 3:25 PM
Mortgages Rates have been nearly identical for the past 3 sessions. That means that Conventional 30yr Fixed Best-Execution Rates begin the week at...
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 8:08 AM
Bond markets improved overnight and may have a familiar friend to thank for it. Greece is back in the news, or at least we think so... We haven't se...
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 4:16 PM
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Fri, Mar 23 2012, 2:15 PM
Money came into both sides of the market today. Stocks are set to end the day with gain, as are Treasuries and MBS, the Mortgage-Backed-Securities th...
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 1:37 PM
As seen in the recap of live alerts below, this morning's gains for MBS and Treasuries arrive on the heels of data that normally can't be counted on f...
Thu, Mar 22 2012, 11:29 AM
The passing of the Fed's scheduled Twist buying in the 2022-2030 maturity range did little to nudge Treasuries and MBS from their recent grind near ...
Thu, Mar 22 2012, 4:21 PM
After a generally calm and generally positive day, MBS have traipsed lower in a similarly calm fashion. We want to emphasize that even though the p...
Thu, Mar 22 2012, 3:44 PM
Mortgages Rates enjoyed a second day of doing something other than frantically rising or merely holding sideways. Rate offerings at most lenders ...
Thu, Mar 22 2012, 2:14 AM
Yesterday's rally was well-met. Although Monday was technically a positive day for bond markets, it sure didn't feel like it given
the fact tha...
Wed, Mar 21 2012, 11:21 AM
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Wed, Mar 21 2012, 8:16 AM
It was an average overnight session in terms of volume an volatility, ultimately resulting in 10yr yields hitting 2.3828 around 6am before cascading d...
Wed, Mar 21 2012, 4:21 PM
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Wed, Mar 21 2012, 3:57 PM
Mortgages Rates finally caught a break today, after spending the last several days either rising abruptly or simply not improving. The gains were ...
Wed, Mar 21 2012, 2:37 PM
Even if the "need" being satisfied were purely psychological, today's rally is a welcome sight. Unlike instances of positive price action in the rece...
Tue, Mar 20 2012, 11:16 AM
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Tue, Mar 20 2012, 8:10 AM
Bond markets are slightly stronger after one of the least traumatic overnight sessions in recent memory, both in terms of volume and volatility. Chin...
Tue, Mar 20 2012, 4:16 PM
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Tue, Mar 20 2012, 4:12 PM
Mortgages Rates , continued pushing into their highest levels of the year today after yet another volatile session for bond markets. Most lenders i...
Tue, Mar 20 2012, 3:02 PM
For the third day in a row, MBS prices pushed into new lows for the year and 10yr Treasuries came as close to testing 3.40 as they have since last...
Mon, Mar 19 2012, 11:16 AM
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