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NEW MBS RECAP: 12/15/2011

Thu, Dec 15 2011, 4:21 PM

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NEW Mortgage Rates Eerily Steady at Historic Lows

Thu, Dec 15 2011, 3:41 PM

Despite a busy morning of economic data, Mortgage Rates are essentially unchanged from yesterday's levels, leaving the all-time-low 3.875% Best-Ex...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: 12/15/2011

Thu, Dec 15 2011, 2:21 PM

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NEW Increasingly Choppy as Trading Gets Increasingly Light

Thu, Dec 15 2011, 1:13 PM

After the last of this morning's economic data hit, we'd basically seen all there is to see this week. With tomorrow being a Quadruple Witching day, ...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: 12/14/2011

Wed, Dec 14 2011, 11:21 AM

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NEW The Day Ahead: Light Data and 3rd Auction of the Week

Wed, Dec 14 2011, 8:36 AM

After an extremely quiet overnight session, domestic bond markets are beginning the day in generally the same territory as yesterday's close. Fannie 3...

NEW MBS RECAP: 12/14/2011

Wed, Dec 14 2011, 4:21 PM

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NEW Mortgage Rates Officially Hit All Time Lows (Again)

Wed, Dec 14 2011, 3:59 PM

Another strong Treasury auction, among other things, helped Mortgage Rates in lower again today. Although Best-Execution rates still haven't move...

NEW MBS at Highest Levels in Over Two Months

Wed, Dec 14 2011, 3:20 PM

At the beginning of the week, and even during the morning hours yesterday, prices of Fannie 3.5's (dominant production coupon for conforming 30yr loan...

NEW Bond Markets Near Best Levels. Auction/FOMC Loom

Tue, Dec 13 2011, 11:33 AM

10yr yields have experienced only a slight benefit from earlier news that German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the notion of raising the upper lim...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: 12/13/2011

Tue, Dec 13 2011, 11:21 AM

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NEW The Day Ahead: Retail Sales Uninspiring. Waiting on Auction, FOMC

Tue, Dec 13 2011, 8:46 AM

This morning's release of November Retail Sales (advance/estimate report) failed to inspire any directional shifts in markets despite the coming in 0....

NEW MBS RECAP: 12/13/2011

Tue, Dec 13 2011, 4:16 PM

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NEW After Starting Out Weaker, Mortgage Rates Finish Strong

Tue, Dec 13 2011, 4:03 PM

A strong Treasury auction and an uneventful policy statement from the Federal Reserve paved the way for Mortgage Rates to improve to their best le...

NEW Treasuries and MBS Extend Rally Following FOMC Statement

Tue, Dec 13 2011, 3:10 PM

Today's impressive 10yr Treasury Note Auction was the key component in a rally that has taken 10yr yields from one side of their recent range to the o...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: 12/12/2011

Mon, Dec 12 2011, 11:16 AM

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NEW Treasuries Resist Further Improvements Despite Stock Sell-Off

Mon, Dec 12 2011, 10:21 AM

It's a full blown sell-a- thon in stock markets at the moment with S&P's having now charged straight through Friday's lows now down around 25 point...

NEW The Week Ahead: Accelerated Auction Schedule, FOMC, More Econ Data

Mon, Dec 12 2011, 8:39 AM

Just as light volume exaggerated the bond market losses on Friday afternoon, it helped things bounce back a bit this morning. But even without the "h...

NEW MBS RECAP: 12/12/2011

Mon, Dec 12 2011, 4:16 PM

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NEW Minor Late Day Weakness in Bond Markets/MBS

Mon, Dec 12 2011, 3:27 PM

The most recent alert from MBS Live: Slight Chance of Negative Reprices as MBS hit Lows 3:43PM This is one of those alerts where we wouldn't b...

NEW Mortgage Rates Held Steady Over The Weekend

Mon, Dec 12 2011, 3:07 PM

After rising by a very small amount on Friday, Mortgage Rates begin the current week in roughly the same territory. The changes taking place over t...

NEW Markets Pushed Around by Low Volume. MBS Outperform.

Fri, Dec 9 2011, 12:43 PM

MBS have somewhat recovered from earlier weakness, although it has been enough for some reprice concern, so far we've only seen one lender recall. He...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: 12/9/2011

Fri, Dec 9 2011, 11:16 AM

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NEW The Day Ahead: Market Digests EU Summit Details, Consumer Sentiment

Fri, Dec 9 2011, 8:42 AM

There are more newswires out of the EU than you can shake a stick at this morning. In what has to be one of the most anticlimactic resolutions to ...

NEW MBS RECAP: 12/9/2011

Fri, Dec 9 2011, 4:16 PM

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NEW Mortgage Rates Manage To Stay At All-Time Lows

Fri, Dec 9 2011, 1:51 PM

Mortgage Rates rose ever-so-slightly today after Best-Execution fell to it's all-time low yesterday. If you didn't catch it, please see yesterday's...

NEW MBS Hit Two Month Highs as Confidence Evaporates Ahead of EU Summit

Thu, Dec 8 2011, 12:52 PM

MBS prices rose to their highest levels in over 2 months today as stocks and Treasury yields fall to their lowest levels of the month. Fannie 3.5 MBS...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: 12/8/2011

Thu, Dec 8 2011, 11:16 AM

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NEW The Day Ahead: Jobless Claims, ECB Presser, and More Waiting for EU Summit

Thu, Dec 8 2011, 8:27 AM

Overnight Sessions Growing Quieter Ahead of Summit. MBS Improve 8:27AM Yesterday's open was preceded by an uneventful overnight session with low v...

NEW MBS RECAP: 12/8/2011

Thu, Dec 8 2011, 4:16 PM

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NEW Mortgage Rates Fall In Line With All Time Lows

Thu, Dec 8 2011, 3:18 PM

When it comes to "all time low" Mortgage Rates , a bit of clarification is in order. Earlier this Fall, especially near the end of September and b...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: 12/7/2011

Wed, Dec 7 2011, 11:20 AM

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NEW Stable Treasury Benchmarks Benefitting MBS

Wed, Dec 7 2011, 11:12 AM

Another day of generally sideways action in benchmark rates brings us another session of Rallying MBS prices. Fannie 3.5's have mostly traded above y...

NEW The Day Ahead: More EU Headline Watching as Domestic Econ Stays Silent

Wed, Dec 7 2011, 8:39 AM

This morning's update from MBS Live: Bond Markets Rally Into NY Open After Choppy Overnight Session 8:30AM Treasuries are turning green at ...

NEW MBS RECAP: 12/7/2011

Wed, Dec 7 2011, 4:20 PM

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NEW Mortgage Rates Able to Inch Slightly Closer to All-Time Lows

Wed, Dec 7 2011, 3:54 PM

Mortgage Rates improved slightly today from what were already near the best levels since early November. We should mention though, that sounds a bi...

NEW What's Up With The MBS Rally Today?

Wed, Dec 7 2011, 3:22 PM

Today has been fairly insane if you're simply looking at the chart of MBS prices. In fact, today has been pretty interesting even for market particip...

NEW As Benchmarks Demonstrate Stability, MBS Improve Cautiously

Tue, Dec 6 2011, 12:57 PM

As we began the week yesterday, we knew that the domestic economic calendar was among the lightest of the year and to be expecting a relatively quiet ...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: 12/6/2011

Tue, Dec 6 2011, 11:18 AM

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NEW The Day Ahead: Quiet Economic Calendar Leaves EU in Focus

Tue, Dec 6 2011, 8:30 AM

There are no significant scheduled economic reports set to release today and tonight's MBS-specific report on prepayment speeds won't be a market-move...

NEW MBS RECAP: 12/6/2011

Tue, Dec 6 2011, 4:15 PM

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NEW Mortgage Rates In Line With Recent Lows. Near All-Time Lows

Tue, Dec 6 2011, 3:26 PM

Mortgage Rates remain in the same range they've been in for weeks, although nearer to low side of that range today. The market phenomena driving r...

NEW MBS Continue Solid Performance After Economic Data

Mon, Dec 5 2011, 11:31 AM

So far, today has been more about a relatively contained, sideways momentum in response to a more significant movements in the overnight session. Cas...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: 12/5/2011

Mon, Dec 5 2011, 11:18 AM

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NEW The Week Ahead: Light Economic Calendar, EU Summit, MBS Settlement

Mon, Dec 5 2011, 8:47 AM

This week's economic calendar is one of the lightest of the year, averaging just one report per morning, with 2 of the five coming today. In addition...

NEW MBS RECAP: 12/5/2011

Mon, Dec 5 2011, 4:18 PM

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NEW Technical Breakout in MBS Finding Support After Downgrade News

Mon, Dec 5 2011, 2:31 PM

The most recent alert from MBS Live provides background for the charts that follow: Potential Reprices For The Better as MBS Break into New High...

NEW Mortgage Rates Steady to Begin the Week

Mon, Dec 5 2011, 2:09 PM

Mortgage Rates are little changed to start the week. There has been and will continue to be extremely limited amounts of domestic Economic data thi...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: 12/2/2011

Fri, Dec 2 2011, 11:16 AM

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NEW The Day Ahead: All Eyes On NFP Following Quiet Overnight Session

Fri, Dec 2 2011, 8:27 AM

From MBS Live Moments Ago: 10yr yields moved just under 2bps higher from 3pm marks in an exceedingly quiet overnight session. There's some "risk-on...