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NEW Bonds Beat Up on Surprisingly Strong Jobs Data

Fri, May 6 2011, 9:30 AM

The April Employment Situation Report has been released. Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 244,000 in April, and the unemployment rate edged u...

NEW MBS RECAP: 5/6/2011

Fri, May 6 2011, 4:17 PM

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NEW MBS MID-DAY: Holding New Gains

Thu, May 5 2011, 11:17 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 96-04 : +0-05 ...

NEW The Day Ahead: Payrolls Anxiety Extends Rates Rally

Thu, May 5 2011, 8:20 AM

Benchmark interest rates inched even lower last night as investors geared up for Friday's nonfarm payrolls report. Bonds have been rallying for four w...

NEW Jobs Data Preview: Bonds Seeking Confirmation

Thu, May 5 2011, 4:51 PM

The April Employment Situation Report will be released tomorrow morning. In advance of this high-profile economic event, a wind of fundamental change ...

NEW MBS RECAP: Highest Prices Since December 2010

Thu, May 5 2011, 4:17 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 96-13 : +0-14 ...

NEW MBS Ledge: Shift in Production Coupon Potentially in Progress

Wed, May 4 2011, 12:09 PM

Both benchmark rates and production MBS coupon prices have bounced around a large yet well-defined range so far in 2011. There have been moments when...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Reprices for Better Reported

Wed, May 4 2011, 11:21 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 95-31 : +0-08 ...

NEW The Day Ahead: ADP Employment Report; ISM Non-Manufacturing; Fed Speak

Wed, May 4 2011, 8:13 AM

Benchmark yields shot lower on the Japanese open last night but have since backed up a few bps as traders trimmed profits and balanced positions ahead...

NEW MBS RECAP: 5/4/2011

Wed, May 4 2011, 4:17 PM

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NEW MBS MID-DAY: 5/3/2011

Tue, May 3 2011, 11:16 AM

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NEW MBS RECAP: 5/3/2011

Tue, May 3 2011, 4:21 PM

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

NEW MBS MID-DAY: 5/2/2011

Mon, May 2 2011, 11:16 AM

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NEW The Week Ahead: Employment Situation, Fed Speak, Auction Supply Terms

Mon, May 2 2011, 8:53 AM

Can killing the world's most infamous terrorist give a boost to global equity markets? The markets unambiguously answer: yep. After President Oba...

NEW MBS RECAP: 5/2/2011

Mon, May 2 2011, 4:16 PM

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NEW MBS MID-DAY: Uninspiring Choppiness

Fri, Apr 29 2011, 11:16 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 95-10 : +0-02 ...

NEW Economic Slowdown: Transitory Effects vs. False Starts

Fri, Apr 29 2011, 10:52 AM

Japan is out for 黄金週間 ( Golden Week ) and London is shut down for the Royal Wedding . Add in event exhaustion and another high-risk event in the ...

NEW The Day Ahead: Personal Income, Consumer Sentiment, Fed Speak

Fri, Apr 29 2011, 8:28 AM

Rates moved mostly sideways overnight before making a break through key resistance early in the N.Y. session. Trading volume was low as Japan has chec...

NEW MBS RECAP: Near 2011 Price Highs

Fri, Apr 29 2011, 4:16 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 95-13 : +0-04 ...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Bonds Better

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 11:16 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 95-07 : +0-16 ...

NEW The Day Ahead: Hint of Economic Slowdown

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 8:27 AM

The bond market shrugged off a warmer inflation outlook from the Fed yesterday and instead chose to focus on its transitory effects which include a mo...

NEW Rate Techs: MBS Find Firm Resistance

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 4:30 PM

Yesterday the mid 3.34's clearly emerged as a resistance level in benchmark 10s....which they were unable to break. As we often discuss, yesterday's ...

NEW MBS RECAP: Out Near Best Levels of Day

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 4:16 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 95-07 : +0-15 ...

NEW Reprice Outlook: Loan Pricing Flat

Wed, Apr 27 2011, 12:20 PM

Treasury just auctioned $35bn 5s. The bid to cover ratio, a measure of auction demand, was 2.77 bids submitted for every 1 accepted by Treasury. This...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Backin-Up Before Bernanke

Wed, Apr 27 2011, 11:17 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-20 : -0-10 ...

NEW The Day Ahead: Busy Session. Rewriting History Books

Wed, Apr 27 2011, 8:37 AM

The Federal Reserve will make history today when the Chairman of the Board stands before the media to usher in a new era of transparency in monetary p...

NEW MBS RECAP: Press Conference Comments

Wed, Apr 27 2011, 4:17 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-24 : -0-06 ...

NEW FOMC: Inflation Still Transitory. QEII to End as Planned

Wed, Apr 27 2011, 1:51 PM

Plain and Simple: The Fed acknowledged that inflation has picked up recently but is still expected to be "transitory". Thus rates will be kept lo...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Rallying a Bit

Tue, Apr 26 2011, 11:20 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-22 : +0-04 ...

NEW The Day Ahead: Home Prices, Consumer Confidence, Treasury Auction

Tue, Apr 26 2011, 8:31 AM

Yesterday was pretty much an extension of the 3.5 day Easter holiday weekend. Volume was about as low as we can remember seeing it recently and tradin...

NEW Forced Buying Leaves Rates Lower. MBS Lag. Bond Poll Attached

Tue, Apr 26 2011, 5:03 PM

Scattered reprices for the better were reported today. Rate sheets are about as strong as they've been in a month. Price action in the bond market was...

NEW MBS RECAP: Scattered Reprices Reported

Tue, Apr 26 2011, 4:16 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-31 : +0-13 ...

NEW The Week Ahead: FOMC, Treasury Auctions, Q1 GDP, Much More...

Mon, Apr 25 2011, 9:34 AM

The holiday-shortened work week that just past stands in stark contrast to the week ahead which offers a robust calendar of events and economic data. ...

NEW MBS Recap: Slowest Day of Year

Mon, Apr 25 2011, 4:20 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-18 : +0-09 ...

NEW Production MBS Prices Hit One-Month High. Reprices Possible

Mon, Apr 25 2011, 2:10 PM

The bond market must've had too many marshmallow peeps yesterday cause trading flows are comatose in the "rate sheet influential" portion of the yield...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Odd Reprices Reported

Thu, Apr 21 2011, 11:23 AM

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NEW The Day Ahead: Early Close for Bond Market

Thu, Apr 21 2011, 8:33 AM

The risk trade continued unabated overnight after equities jumped to their highest levels in nearly three years on Wednesday. The tech sector added fu...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Still Treading Water

Wed, Apr 20 2011, 11:17 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-12 : -0-03 ...

NEW MBS Benefit from Lack of Lock Volume. TSY Short Covering Seen

Wed, Apr 20 2011, 10:28 AM

Existing Home Sales data just printed. Here is the Reuters Alert... RTRS 10:00 - US MARCH EXISTING HOME SALES 5.10 MLN UNIT ANNUAL RATE (CONS 5.00 ...

NEW The Day Ahead: Risk Trade On. Stocks Green Around the Globe

Wed, Apr 20 2011, 9:14 AM

Equities are globally green and benchmark yields are bouncing back this morning after failing to breach a key resistance level yesterday. S&P futur...

NEW MBS RECAP: Slow Session

Wed, Apr 20 2011, 4:17 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-07 : -0-08 ...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Testing Key Resistance

Tue, Apr 19 2011, 11:17 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-16 : +0-02 ...

NEW Political Bickering Puts Pause on Potential Rates Rally

Tue, Apr 19 2011, 10:49 AM

Does anyone really believe Donald Trump is planning to announce his candidacy for U.S. President? Most folks including me see it as a ploy aimed...

NEW The Day Ahead: New Residential Construction, Earnings

Tue, Apr 19 2011, 8:29 AM

While cash fled equities in the wake of Standard & Poor’s revising its outlook on U.S. debt to negative from stable yesterday, the Treasury market ral...

NEW MBS RECAP: Treading Water

Tue, Apr 19 2011, 4:17 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-17 : +0-03 ...

NEW MBS MID-DAY: Recovering from Tapebomb

Mon, Apr 18 2011, 11:17 AM

MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-08 : +0-01 ...

NEW The Week Ahead: Housing and Q1 Earnings in the Spotlight

Mon, Apr 18 2011, 8:48 AM

The coming days offer little in the way of macroeconomic data, but the sparsely populated calendar does hold new stats on the housing markets. "Ho...

NEW MBS RECAP: Bonds Battle Back

Mon, Apr 18 2011, 4:17 PM

MBSonMND : MBS RECAP Open MBSonMND Dashboard FNMA 3.5 94-14 : +0-06 ...