Tue, Feb 7 2012, 2:31 PM
Bond markets had already been trending into negative territory leading up to today's 3yr auction, but took a turn for the worse afterwards with some h...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 12:49 PM
( MBS Live ) - Against today's data-free backdrop, the only real market mover has been the earlier scheduled Fed buying (30yr sector of Treasuries) th...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 11:17 AM
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Mon, Feb 6 2012, 8:02 AM
The Employment Situation Report is normally preceded by "sideways
uncertainty" and followed by noticeable directionality. But this time
around, t...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 4:17 PM
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Mon, Feb 6 2012, 3:34 PM
Following Friday's employment data, Mortgages Rates
moved quickly higher. In most cases, the changes were seen not in the quoted interest rates t...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 11:21 AM
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Fri, Feb 3 2012, 9:18 AM
The recent drop in rates has created some
interesting situations in the market, especially for lenders . First of
all, I'm not aware of any c...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 8:00 AM
First Friday of the month and time, once again, for The Employment
Situation Report, or more specifically, the Non-Farm Payrolls headline.
Both M...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 4:21 PM
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Fri, Feb 3 2012, 3:01 PM
The monthly Employment Situation Report was released at 8:30am this morning, with much better-than-expected results. Stocks rallied sharply and most ...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 2:09 PM
There is plenty of play-by-play on the post-NFP sell-off in the MBS Recap . If you haven't seen those updates already, that's a good place to start,...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 12:50 PM
We've posed this question almost a month ago ( read more... ) and the answer is fairly similar this time around. That said, MBS prices are higher ...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 11:22 AM
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Thu, Feb 2 2012, 8:06 AM
Domestic economic data is in slightly shorter supply on Thursday
after two more robust days. But what it lacks in sheer number of
reports, it mak...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 4:22 PM
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Thu, Feb 2 2012, 2:59 PM
For the second day in a row, Mortgages Rates
are just slightly better than unchanged. Best-Execution
remains at 3.875% for conventional 30yr fi...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 11:22 AM
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Wed, Feb 1 2012, 10:48 AM
10:24AM (MBS Live) - Bond Markets Continue Weakening After Latest Data. MBS Outperform
Longer-dated Treasury yields continued to climb this mornin...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 8:02 AM
Wednesday brings another relatively robust set of economic reports in
the morning, but those reports will have to speak fairly loudly in
order to ...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 4:22 PM
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Wed, Feb 1 2012, 1:50 PM
Mortgages Rates
are just slightly better than unchanged on the day. Best-Execution remains at 3.875% for conventional 30yr fixed loans, and the sl...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 11:29 AM
With the 10:00 AM print of this month's Consumer Confidence report, the morning's economic data is done. Stocks and bonds hadn't been too well connect...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 8:05 AM
Shortly after domestic markets closed on Monday, Greece's PM Lucas
Papademos told reporters that hoped to conclude debt negotiations by the
end ...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 4:15 PM
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Tue, Jan 31 2012, 2:33 PM
After setting new record lows yesterday, Mortgages Rates
rose slightly today, though 3.875% best-execution remains intact. Rather than affect the...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 11:24 AM
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Mon, Jan 30 2012, 10:55 AM
After the Fed completes scheduled buying in 8-10yr maturities at 11am, potential market movers on the calendar are in short supply. Even then, the bi...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 8:06 AM
This weeks begins the same way last week ended, with Greece's negotiations with private bond-holders in focus. Most recently this morning, the FT is ...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 4:38 PM
The bond markets took the latest Fed OMC announcements as an "all-clear"
sign to buy Treasuries. The move has
pushed the Treasury yield curve a...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 4:21 PM
One of the more confusing MBS topics is the concept of "dollar rolls."
While it seems esoteric, secondary markets people are implicitly considering
...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 4:21 PM
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Mon, Jan 30 2012, 2:15 PM
It's happened before and it happened again today: Mortgages Rates
hit new all time lows today. Please note, that the actual interest rate you wou...
Fri, Jan 27 2012, 12:55 PM
The trading day is rapidly growing uneventful and charts suggest that quite a few market participants already have one or more feet out the door for t...
Fri, Jan 27 2012, 11:19 AM
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Fri, Jan 27 2012, 7:56 AM
Volume in the overnight session was just under recent averages but respectable overall. 10yr Treasuries rose as high as 1.9681 after a relatively str...
Fri, Jan 27 2012, 4:19 PM
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Fri, Jan 27 2012, 1:52 PM
Mortgages Rates
continued their march into better territory today, capping a 3 day effort of improvement following Wednesday's FOMC Announcement. ...
Thu, Jan 26 2012, 11:19 AM
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Thu, Jan 26 2012, 10:31 AM
Although the important economic releases this morning were either in-line with expectations or better (Home Sales missed expectations, but it's not an...
Thu, Jan 26 2012, 7:52 AM
Bond markets improved in the overnight session. The pace was slow at first as German, French, and Italian economic data were all close to consensus e...
Thu, Jan 26 2012, 4:19 PM
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Thu, Jan 26 2012, 3:17 PM
Mortgages Rates over the past two days have done much to make ground lost leading up to Yesterday's FOMC Announcement. After further improvements to...
Thu, Jan 26 2012, 2:44 PM
The "flatness" of MBS prices is simply uncanny considering that Fannie 3.5's are currently right at their highest levels since late September, and con...
Wed, Jan 25 2012, 11:21 AM
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Wed, Jan 25 2012, 8:57 AM
The overnight session was almost completely
unnecessary. 10yr yields climbed to
nearly 2.08, apparently not willing to test yesterday's highs, and ...
Wed, Jan 25 2012, 4:16 PM
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Wed, Jan 25 2012, 4:02 PM
Mortgages Rates spent 2 days at 4.0% in terms of rounded average "Best-Execution" rates (for detail on what that means, READ THIS POST from a few d...
Wed, Jan 25 2012, 2:45 PM
Let's cut right to the chase... Although the 5yr auction earlier today was strong and although there were several paragraphs-worth of content in toda...
Tue, Jan 24 2012, 11:16 AM
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