Mon, Apr 30 2012, 7:45 AM
Bond markets traded in jaw-droppingly narrow ranges last week given the presence of the FOMC events (announcement, forecasts, press conference) and Q1...
Mon, Apr 30 2012, 4:17 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
MBS and Treasuries looked like they might have been drifting into slightly better territory in the first ...
Mon, Apr 30 2012, 3:54 PM
Mortgages Rates are moderately improved to begin the week, taking them slightly lower than than April's best two days (4/10 and 4/23) and as close ...
Fri, Apr 27 2012, 11:21 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
"You shall not pass!" Resistance levels in bond markets joined the ranks of Gandalf and The Black Knight i...
Fri, Apr 27 2012, 7:20 AM
Thursday turned out to be ridiculously narrow given that it followed FOMC Day. Then again, if you tend to agree with the assessment that Bernanke and...
Fri, Apr 27 2012, 4:09 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
This is the third Friday in a row where we've looked back on what we would have thought would be a...
Fri, Apr 27 2012, 1:47 PM
Mortgages Rates are unchanged from yesterday, capping an extremely flat and historically low week. The FOMC events on Wednesday gave lenders some ...
Thu, Apr 26 2012, 11:14 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Little has changed for MBS and Treasuries following this morning's Jobless Claims numbers. The slightly we...
Thu, Apr 26 2012, 7:40 AM
Although it's a net positive to see MBS and Treasuries hold their ground at recent levels following yesterday's FOMC events, it does complicate things...
Thu, Apr 26 2012, 6:22 PM
Mortgages Rates are back down to Tuesday's levels, near the lowest in several months. Yesterday's FOMC-related events caused lenders to price rate s...
Thu, Apr 26 2012, 4:12 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
By the time all is said and done today, both MBS and Treasuries are heading toward 5pm roughly in l...
Thu, Apr 26 2012, 2:57 PM
While servicing valuations and the various adjusters are the most obvious factors impacting loan execution and pricing, the price spread between diffe...
Wed, Apr 25 2012, 12:41 PM
subtractions in red and struck-through, additions in green and underlined...
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in ...
Wed, Apr 25 2012, 11:17 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Bond markets, including MBS, opened in weaker territory this morning and continued losing ground in spite o...
Wed, Apr 25 2012, 8:24 AM
At last, FOMC Day arrives. .. We've been waiting for this one--and less than patiently... Two and a half weeks ago, we went into the NFP weekend wit...
Wed, Apr 25 2012, 4:22 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Clearly, the whipsaw movements in MBS and Treasuries are readily apparent in the 2 day minute-to-mi...
Wed, Apr 25 2012, 3:35 PM
Mortgages Rates are higher today, following the FOMC Announcement , Member Forecasts and Press Conference. The actual text of the Fed's announcemen...
Tue, Apr 24 2012, 11:19 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
After yesterday proved to be mostly dead, both in terms of volume and volatility, today brings slight...
Tue, Apr 24 2012, 7:47 AM
After yesterday's quiet session, bond markets strengthened during Asian trading hours only to move weaker when Europe got involved. Neither of the mo...
Tue, Apr 24 2012, 4:27 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
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Tue, Apr 24 2012, 3:20 PM
Mortgages Rates are unchanged in some cases and slightly higher in others. Overall, the difference between today's offerings and yesterday's is fa...
Mon, Apr 23 2012, 11:33 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
So far, the morning has been as uneventful as expected with no scheduled data or events on the domest...
Mon, Apr 23 2012, 4:09 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Today was really more of an extension of the previous week than the beginning of a new one. Schedu...
Mon, Apr 23 2012, 2:49 PM
Mortgages Rates are back to their lowest levels since February. For an increasing number of lenders, current rates begin to shift the balance towa...
Mon, Apr 23 2012, 1:09 AM
After two excruciatingly slow, sideways weeks, markets will finally get what they've ostensibly been waiting for: Wednesday's FOMC Announcement. This...
Fri, Apr 20 2012, 11:17 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Although we threw a Hail Mary pass in the hopes of getting saved by Murphy's Law, bond markets have ...
Fri, Apr 20 2012, 7:32 AM
Here we are at the end of a week that might as well have not begun. At least in terms of offering any meaningful reasons for tuning in to bond market...
Fri, Apr 20 2012, 4:10 PM
MBS Live: MBS Afternoon Market Summary Wow... This is now officially a record breaking week. We'll need to do some more digging in order to determi...
Fri, Apr 20 2012, 1:17 PM
Mortgages Rates are microscopically higher today, but there is little effect on Best-Execution rates and only minor affects on the closing costs asso...
Thu, Apr 19 2012, 11:13 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
The first highs of the morning remain intact for MBS as do the first lows of the morning for TSY yields. ...
Thu, Apr 19 2012, 7:36 AM
A theme is developing... It's the one where we question the need for market analysis on a week that has, thus far, behaved as expected to an unexpect...
Thu, Apr 19 2012, 4:18 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Regardless of which scene in Monty Python's Holy Grail you prefer, there's no doubt that the recent...
Thu, Apr 19 2012, 2:58 PM
Mortgages Rates continued to operate in the same range that has dominated the past three weeks although the closing costs associated with prevailing ...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 12:22 PM
Last week, I wrote about specified pool trading and how originators need to take advantage of pay-up opportunities by selling their production int...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 11:21 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Even
from afar, today showed promise as having the potential to be "mostly
dead" in terms of market...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 8:20 AM
Given that the massive stock rally and plethora of earnings reports did little to motivate bond market movements on Tuesday, we're not looking at toda...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 4:26 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
The great sideways grind continued for bond markets today with 3pm marks for 10yr Treasuries not ev...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 2:49 PM
Mortgages Rates were flat to slightly improved
today. Most lenders improved pricing by
very small amounts while a few were slightly worse than y...
Tue, Apr 17 2012, 11:25 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Bond markets, including MBS are generally weaker today vs yesterday but MBS and Treasuries have both ...
Tue, Apr 17 2012, 7:49 AM
The New York Fed's Empire State Manufacturing Index is by no means an inconsequential report, but even the big miss it experienced yesterday isn't suf...
Tue, Apr 17 2012, 4:37 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Two days in and the week continues to live up to its uninspiring expectations. Having made it to stronge...
Tue, Apr 17 2012, 3:34 PM
Mortgages Rates rose slightly today
after hitting their lowest levels since late February yesterday. While that leaves yesterday and 4/10 as two
...
Mon, Apr 16 2012, 11:19 AM
MBS L ive : MBS Morning Market Summary
If the Euro-zone periphery scares you (read: Spanish 10yr yields over 6%), where do you flee to s...
Mon, Apr 16 2012, 8:25 AM
To put things in perspective, 3 individual days from the penultimate trading week (the one with FOMC Minutes and NFP) each had trading ranges wider th...
Mon, Apr 16 2012, 4:16 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Despite stronger-than-expected Retail Sales figures, bo nd markets ratcheted another notch into positiv...
Mon, Apr 16 2012, 2:32 PM
After
closing out the previous week with slight gains Mortgages Rates have done the same to begin the current
week. On average, this brings rates...
Fri, Apr 13 2012, 11:22 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
First Asia, then Europe, and now the Domestic session... All three have had moderately positive impa...
Fri, Apr 13 2012, 8:27 AM
Thursday was an odd day for markets. At several points in the day, bond markets reversed course and headed the other direction with less-than-insigni...
Fri, Apr 13 2012, 4:28 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
There's little else to say beyond what's said in the most recent update at 1:43pm below. With a lo...
Fri, Apr 13 2012, 3:36 PM
Mortgages Rates improved slightly today, but that slight improvement brings them close to the best levels of the week. This also means rates cont...
