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NEW MBS RECAP: All Sorts of Reprices

Mon, Mar 21 2011, 4:16 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-31 : -0-12 ...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Support Holds

Fri, Mar 18 2011, 11:16 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 95-08 : -0-03 ...

NEW The Day Ahead: G7 Tackles Yen. Stocks Rally. Bonds Sell

Fri, Mar 18 2011, 8:45 AM

An agreement among the G7 group of finance ministers and central bankers to intervene against the rising yen helped calm global markets last night...

NEW MBS RECAP: Sideways Session

Fri, Mar 18 2011, 4:16 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 95-11 : -0-01 ...

NEW Mortgage Rates: Headline News Dictates Direction

Fri, Mar 18 2011, 4:07 PM

Mortgage rates got slightly more expensive today. Best-execution rates were unchanged. It was a quiet session overall. Little movement was seen in ...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Rates Backing Up

Thu, Mar 17 2011, 11:16 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-29 : -0-16 ...

NEW Inflation Update: Cost of Living Rising as Wage Growth Lags

Thu, Mar 17 2011, 10:57 AM

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the Consumer Price Index for February 2011. The CPI is the most widely relied upon measure of infl...

NEW The Day Ahead: CPI, Industrial Production, Jobless Claims

Thu, Mar 17 2011, 8:20 AM

Equity futures are rebounding modestly this morning after substantial losses earlier in the week erased all of 2011's gains. Bonds are backing up...

NEW MBS RECAP: 3/17/2011

Thu, Mar 17 2011, 4:16 PM

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NEW Mortgage Rates: Back To "Stuck" Again

Thu, Mar 17 2011, 3:56 PM

Mortgage rates worsened today. The level of panic lessened overnight in Japan, and despite several somewhat alarming headlines, the overall pan...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Choppy Price Action

Wed, Mar 16 2011, 11:20 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-32 : +0-13 ...

NEW The Day Ahead: Producer Prices, Housing Starts, Building Permits

Wed, Mar 16 2011, 8:32 AM

U.S. equity futures are relatively stable this morning as stocks in Japan rebounded 5.7% after crashing 10.6% Monday. Uncertainty remains key and is...

NEW Mortgage Rates: Best Ex Barrier Broken. Briefly?

Wed, Mar 16 2011, 6:31 PM

Mortgage rates improved today as the situation in Japan deteriorated and a feeling of panic poured through global markets, spurring on another flight ...

NEW MBS RECAP: Positive Progress

Wed, Mar 16 2011, 4:16 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 95-12 : +0-25 ...

NEW How Real is the Bond Market Rally?

Wed, Mar 16 2011, 3:14 PM

While it's impossible to know exactly how markets would be behaving given alternate realities, it's easy to see that the EXTENT and PACE of the st...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Off the Highs

Tue, Mar 15 2011, 11:20 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-31 : +0-18 ...

NEW The Day Ahead: Flight to Safety Pours into Bond Market

Tue, Mar 15 2011, 8:30 AM

Another explosion at a nuclear power station in Japan triggered a 10.55% sell-off in Japanese stocks last night and initiated a massive global fli...

NEW Mortgage Rates: Still Stuck But Lender Credits Likely

Tue, Mar 15 2011, 6:13 PM

CURRENT MARKET : The "Best Execution" conventional 30 year fixed mortgage rate is still 4.875%. For those looking to permanently buy down thei...

NEW Bond Rally Lacks Real Money Support. Sustained Commitment Needed

Tue, Mar 15 2011, 5:45 PM

All hell seemed to break loose in global markets today. Stocks plummeted around the world. Commodities tanked to the tune of 2-5%. And a flight ...

NEW MBS RECAP: Rally Reverses

Tue, Mar 15 2011, 4:20 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-19 : +0-06 ...

NEW FOMC Offers Hesitant Optimism. Upgraded Outlook Overall

Tue, Mar 15 2011, 3:36 PM

The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee has released the March FOMC Statement . On the whole the Fed hinted at an upgrade in economic conditi...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Bond Rally Continues

Mon, Mar 14 2011, 11:20 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-18 : +0-16 ...

NEW The Week Ahead: Japan, FOMC Meeting, Inflation, Construction Data

Mon, Mar 14 2011, 9:17 AM

The progressively more tragic consequences of the Japanese earthquake remind us that reality can change in an instant. What we initially received ...

NEW Mortgage Rates: Stable Before Fed Meeting

Mon, Mar 14 2011, 4:44 PM

Home loan borrowing costs improved slightly today, though Best-Execution rates remained the same. Nervous tensions surrounding the potential econ...

NEW MBS RECAP: 3/14/2011

Mon, Mar 14 2011, 4:20 PM

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NEW Lenders Improve Loan Pricing. Graphing the NIKKEI's Retracement

Mon, Mar 14 2011, 2:24 PM

Rate sheet influential MBS coupons hit new one-month highs today. REPRICES FOR THE BETTER HAVE BEEN REPORTED Following reprices for the bette...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Reprices for Worse Possible

Fri, Mar 11 2011, 11:16 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-08 : -0-09 ...

NEW The Day Ahead: Earthquake, Tsunami Slam Japan

Fri, Mar 11 2011, 8:30 AM

(Reuters) - The biggest earthquake on record to hit Japan struck the northeast coast on Friday, triggering a 10-meter tsunami that swept away ...

NEW MBS LEDGE: Room to Rally with Little Reward to Offer

Fri, Mar 11 2011, 4:58 PM

Lots of headlines to digest lately. What region is the market focused on again? North Africa, The Middle East, Spain, Portugal, Greece, China, Jap...

NEW MBS RECAP: 3/11/2011

Fri, Mar 11 2011, 4:16 PM

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NEW Mortgage Rates: Running into Resistance

Fri, Mar 11 2011, 3:09 PM

Consumer borrowing costs lost a very small amount of ground today. Mortgage rates are still about aggressive as they've been since late January thou...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Risk Aversion in Process

Thu, Mar 10 2011, 11:16 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-01 : +0-04 ...

NEW Rate Techs: Facing Resistance. More Motivation Needed

Thu, Mar 10 2011, 10:29 AM

Stocks are moving lower fast and interest rates are rallying as a result. Benchmark 10yr yields have moved notably lower over the past 18 hours i...

NEW The Day Ahead: Jobless Claims, Trade Balance, $13 Billion 30s

Thu, Mar 10 2011, 8:25 AM

Broad losses in overseas markets have U.S. equity futures on edge this morning, while interest rates are slightly higher, the US dollar is moving...

NEW Mortgage Rates: Closing Costs Improve. Best Ex Stuck

Thu, Mar 10 2011, 4:25 PM

You'll have to look closely in order to see a difference between the introductory paragraphs of today's commentary and yesterday's... Today's 30...

NEW MBS RECAP: Back on a Ledge

Thu, Mar 10 2011, 4:16 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-15 : +0-18 ...

NEW Dealers Tender Aggressively for Long Bond. Rates Rallying

Thu, Mar 10 2011, 2:07 PM

Treasury just sold $13 billion 30-year notes. Today's long bond auction was one of the strongest in several years. The bid to cover ratio, a m...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Sideways Session

Wed, Mar 9 2011, 11:16 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 93-19 : +0-05 ...

NEW The Day Ahead: Wholesale Trade, $21 Billion 10s, HAMP Vote

Wed, Mar 9 2011, 8:14 AM

Stocks have nearly doubled since the market fell to its lowest level of the financial crisis exactly two years ago today. Shares now look to move ...

NEW Mortgage Rates: Near One-Month Lows. Again.

Wed, Mar 9 2011, 5:16 PM

If yesterday gave fence-sitters a taste of the downside risks associated with floating, today shared the rewards. Today's 10-year Treasury note...

NEW MBS RECAP: Out Near Highs. Reprices Reported

Wed, Mar 9 2011, 4:21 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 93-28 : +0-14 ...

NEW Smooth 10-Year Auction Wakes Sleeping Bond Market

Wed, Mar 9 2011, 1:37 PM

Treasury just sold $21 billion 10-year notes. The auction went well.... The bid to cover ratio, a measure of auction demand, was an above ave...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Reprices a Risk

Tue, Mar 8 2011, 11:16 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 93-26 : -0-05 ...

NEW Illustrating the Inner Connectivity of Oil, Stocks, and Bonds

Tue, Mar 8 2011, 10:46 AM

(9:40am) The bond market continues to battle the weakness mentioned previously as being connected to oil movements. Support could be coming in arou...

NEW The Day Ahead: Treasury Sells $32bn 3s, Class A MBS Roll

Tue, Mar 8 2011, 8:39 AM

Stocks and bonds continue to march to the beat of an oil drum. HA I crack myself up.....oil prices did dictate the directionality of stocks and bonds ...

NEW Mortgage Rates: Closing Costs Edge Higher

Tue, Mar 8 2011, 4:54 PM

Fence-sitters today got their first taste of a series of moderately risky events that face mortgage rates in the days ahead, Treasury auctions! ...

NEW MBS RECAP: 3/8/2011

Tue, Mar 8 2011, 4:16 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 ...

NEW MBS Settlement Process Underway. Does the Roll Hurt Loan Pricing?

Tue, Mar 8 2011, 3:56 PM

March Fannie and Freddie 30 year fixed MBS coupon have begun the settlement process and it will soon look like MBS prices just plummeted (more than ...

NEW 3-Year Note Auction Recap: Decent Demand. Dealers Do Heavy Lifting

Tue, Mar 8 2011, 1:52 PM

Treasury just sold $32 billion 3-year notes. The bid to cover ratio, a measure of auction demand, was 3.22 bids submitted for every 1 accept...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Recovering as Stocks Unwind Gains

Mon, Mar 7 2011, 11:16 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-05 : -0-02 ...