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MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Recap: Another Head Fake Comes and Goes With Help From Data and Powell - MBS Commentary

Tue, 3:56 PM

Another Head Fake Comes and Goes With Help From Data and Powell As of yesterday, bond yields looked like tha...

Mortgage Rate Watch

NEW Mortgage Rates Moving Back Up - Mortgage Rate Watch

Tue, 4:10 PM

Mortgage rates moved higher today at the fastest pace in 2 weeks. Part of the reason the size of the jump was the fact that rates have done quite wel...

Housing News

NEW Builder Confidence Drops at Fastest Pace in 2 years - Housing News

Tue, 3:17 PM

Homebuilder confidence may still be higher than almost any time before the pandemic, but it's now lower than any time since. The post-pandemic lows a...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Morning: Strong Data and Overseas Recovery Reinforcing a Floor For Yields - MBS Commentary

Tue, 11:33 AM

Bonds have had a good run recently--perhaps their best when it comes to arguing for a ceiling to cap the brutal rate spike of 2022. The week began wi...

Rob Chrisman

NEW LO Training, Database Mining, Digital, PPE, Non-QM Products; Training and Events - Rob Chrisman

Tue, 10:40 AM

Keeping things in perspective, last Thursday the White House announced a raft of measures to alleviate the ongoing baby formula shortage, which has wo...

Mortgage Rate Watch

NEW Mortgage Rates Unchanged to Slightly Lower - Mortgage Rate Watch

Mon, 4:19 PM

Mortgage rates are coming off of one of their best weeks in nearly 2 years, which isn't quite as glamorous as it sounds, but still a good accomplish...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Recap: Bonds Hold Decent Gains to Start New Week - MBS Commentary

Mon, 4:01 PM

Bonds Hold Decent Gains to Start New Week After mixed trading overnight, bonds began the day in the US at re...

Rob Chrisman

NEW 40-Year, Pre-Approval, Processing, Subservicing Products; Thoughts From the Secondary Conference - Rob Chrisman

Mon, 10:16 AM

Plenty of capital markets folks, senior management, and the usual cadre of vendors are here in Manhattan, doing the macarena until 2AM. Okay, just kid...

Housing News

NEW Commercial and Multifamily Lending Surged in Q1 - Housing News

Thu, 12:48 PM

The volume of commercial and multifamily mortgage loan originations jumped 72 percent in the first quarter of 2022 compared to a year earlier. The M...

Mortgage Rate Watch

NEW Best Week For Rates in Almost 2 Years, But There's a Catch - Mortgage Rate Watch

Fri, 6:05 PM

Mortgage rates have moved higher at the fastest pace in decades so far in 2022, but this week proved to be a refreshing exception. To understand why,...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Morning: Closely Watching For Signs of a Ceiling - MBS Commentary

Mon, 12:01 PM

Bonds shook off a bit of weakness in Europe to start the new week in slightly stronger territory. Gains have continued into domestic hours, which bri...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Recap: Weaker Today, But Stronger vs Last Week. Stocks in Control - MBS Commentary

Fri, 3:47 PM

Weaker Today, But Stronger vs Last Week. Stocks in Control Blaming stocks for movement in the bond market (a...

Rob Chrisman

NEW Non-QM, DSCR, Desktop Appraisal, DPA Products; USDA, VA, FHA Investor Product News - Rob Chrisman

Fri, 9:28 AM

English grammar… what a hassle. Is it "lay" or "lie"? - Are you sure you're using them correctly? “Than” versus “then?” One should use “than” only wit...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Morning: Friend or Foe? Stocks Turning on Bonds After Helping Most of The Week - MBS Commentary

Fri, 11:13 AM

The relationship between stocks and bonds is much more complicated than most people assume. Conventional wisdom holds that stock prices and bond yiel...

Mortgage Rate Watch

NEW Rates Are Actually Lower Today (And This Week) - Mortgage Rate Watch

Thu, 4:34 PM

Multiple headlines are citing higher mortgage rates today. Even if you read past those headlines, you'd still be left with the impression that this w...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Recap: Finally Time to Start Entertaining an Actual Shift? - MBS Commentary

Thu, 4:20 PM

Finally Time to Start Entertaining an Actual Shift? Bonds have made several attempts to consolidate and boun...

Housing News

NEW Purchase Volume Has a Another Strong Week - Housing News

Wed, 9:28 AM

Mortgage application volume continued its recovery last week driven by a second strong increase in purchasing activity. The Mortgage Bankers Associati...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Morning: Yields Testing Lower Technical Floors as Consolidation Case Grows - MBS Commentary

Thu, 11:22 AM

For the first time in months (and longer than that if we factor out the artificial/temporary boost from the Ukraine flight to safety) bond yields are ...

Rob Chrisman

NEW Loan Sales, Fee Collection, Vendor Selection, Fix & Flip Products; Tech Survey - Rob Chrisman

Thu, 8:37 AM

Jobs & transitions Lender & broker software and services Tech Survey: who’s doing what Capital markets: rates drop

Mortgage Rate Watch

NEW Nice Recovery Brings Rates Close to 2 Week Lows - Mortgage Rate Watch

Wed, 3:20 PM

Mortgage rates almost hit a new 2 week low today. That's the first time we've been able to say that since early March when markets were still react...

Rob Chrisman

NEW Underwriting, HELOC, DSCR, MSR Products; UWM, Rocket 1st Quarter Stats - Rob Chrisman

Wed, 9:54 AM

Remember: April is National Procrastination Month! I could tell that my cat Myrtle was displeased the other morning. She’s very secretive about her fi...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Recap: Bonds Bounce Back Despite Hotter Inflation Data - MBS Commentary

Wed, 3:54 PM

Bonds Bounce Back Despite Hotter Inflation Data Feel free to call it a comeback, but don't ask why it happen...

Housing News

NEW Refinancing Rate Locks Fall to a 20 Percent Share - Housing News

Tue, 11:13 AM

Black Knight says the steep ascent of mortgage rates, the 30-year conforming jumped 63 basis points in April, was matched by a sharp drop in rate lock...

Housing News

NEW Only 19% of Consumers Think It's a Good Time to Buy - Housing News

Tue, 9:46 AM

Consumers opinion about the wisdom of buying a home went underwater in April 2021 and continues to sink. Fannie May says the question about whether it...

Mortgage Rate Watch

NEW Mortgage Rates Drop Almost a Quarter Point in Just Over 24 Hours - Mortgage Rate Watch

Tue, 4:13 PM

By the middle of the day today, certain rates at many mortgage lenders were a quarter of a percent lower than they were yesterday morning. A drop of ...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Morning: Stocks, Bonds, and Rate Hike Expectations Reacting to CPI; MBS Roll - MBS Commentary

Wed, 10:43 AM

Both at the headline and core levels, April's Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in hotter this morning. This was a high-consequence report for bonds, a...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Recap: Another Solid Day, But It's All About Wednesday's CPI - MBS Commentary

Tue, 3:57 PM

Another Solid Day, But It's All About Wednesday's CPI Bonds managed to post a 2nd consecutive day of gains o...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Morning: Hedging For CPI or A Genuine Correction Attempt? - MBS Commentary

Tue, 10:00 AM

For the 3rd or 4th time (depending on your standards), yields are attempting to find a ceiling after launching abruptly higher in early March (1.67% t...

Mortgage Rate Watch

NEW Rates Start High, But Improved Significantly By The Afternoon - Mortgage Rate Watch

Mon, 3:58 PM

2022 has been the year of volatility for mortgage rates with most of the swings resulting in successive runs to long-term highs. Every now and then...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Recap: Big Bond Rally to Start The New Week - MBS Commentary

Mon, 3:49 PM

Big Bond Rally to Start The New Week In spite of potential headwinds in the coming days (CPI data and Treasu...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Morning: Liquidity Issues Making MBS Prices a Moving Target - MBS Commentary

Mon, 11:31 AM

Depending on when you looked this morning, MBS prices may have been red or green, and the gap between any two quotes was rather large (a quarter of a ...

Rob Chrisman

NEW Consulting, Appraisal, Prequal, MI, Specialty Products; Costco, SoFi, and Mortgages; Rates March Higher - Rob Chrisman

Mon, 9:59 AM

Recently in Reno I overheard someone predict, “Forget Wikipedia. How about someone create ‘Liquorpedia’ with an encyclopedia of alcohol and drink reci...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Recap: Rates Give Up After Briefly Trying to Hold Yesterday's Ceiling - MBS Commentary

Fri, 4:54 PM

Rates Give Up After Briefly Trying to Hold Yesterday's Ceiling There really weren't any new reasons for the ...

Mortgage Rate Watch

NEW Why Some Rate Quotes Are So Different And Why "Points" Are On The Rise - Mortgage Rate Watch

Fri, 4:58 PM

It was yet another tough week for the mortgage market with rates rising to their highest levels since 2009, but how high have they actually risen? Th...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Morning: Jobs Report Overlooked as Bonds Consolidate at Defensive Levels - MBS Commentary

Fri, 12:29 PM

The jobs report is traditionally the most important piece of economic data on any given month. It's even had the power to move the bond market as rec...

Rob Chrisman

NEW Loss Mitigation, Text Messaging, Jumbo ARM, Custom NFT, MSR Financing Products; Strong Jobs Data - Rob Chrisman

Fri, 9:47 AM

Here’s a stream of consciousness paragraph for you. “Rob, what are you hearing about companies laying off, furloughing, right-sizing, whatever, employ...

Mortgage Rate Watch

NEW Rates Reverse Course to Hit Another Long-Term High - Mortgage Rate Watch

Thu, 6:49 PM

Good news continues to be in short supply for mortgage rates. In fact, even the good news has ended up being bad on many recent occasions. Today i...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Recap: Big Sell Off After a Nice Rally. Blame The Fed Either Way? - MBS Commentary

Thu, 4:40 PM

Big Sell Off After a Nice Rally. Blame The Fed Either Way? Today was one of the rare breed where both stock...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Morning: Big, Ugly Morning For Bonds (And Stocks) - MBS Commentary

Thu, 1:04 PM

Solid Fed day and solid rally in response yesterday... Now today, it's not just a complete 180°, but a 180° plus more insult to injury as yields surg...

Mortgage Rate Watch

NEW Mortgage Rates Started Higher, But Improved After Fed Announcement - Mortgage Rate Watch

Wed, 4:47 PM

Today brought the much-anticipated policy announcement from the Federal Reserve. Many people mistakenly believe that the Fed's present day decisions ...

Rob Chrisman

NEW Lender&Broker Products; Mergers and Acquisitions: Black Knight Worth Twice as Much as Yankees? - Rob Chrisman

Thu, 10:09 AM

Life is complicated. Take the Black Knight purchase by ICE. Some vendors are out there licking their chops at their company’s valuation while others a...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Commentary: Differences Between Previous and Current FOMC Statements - MBS Commentary

Wed, 2:01 PM

Indicators Although of overall economic activity edged down in the first quarter, household spending and employment business have fixed ...

Housing News

NEW Purchase Applications Rise on Threshold of Fed Meeting - Housing News

Wed, 9:52 AM

The volume of mortgage application submitted during the week ended April 29 ended a seven-week slide. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said purc...

Mortgage Rate Watch

NEW Mortgage Rates Steady at Long-Term Highs Ahead of Fed - Mortgage Rate Watch

Tue, 4:23 PM

Mortgage rates hit their highest levels since 2009 yesterday amid the fastest spike since the early 1980s. Today's rates were very similar on avera...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Recap: Fed Finally Sticks to Script. Bonds Like It - MBS Commentary

Wed, 4:30 PM

Fed Finally Sticks to Script. Bonds Like It Fed days have seen a series of increasingly hawkish adjustments ...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Morning: 50bp Hike, Normalization Details, And an Important Powell Press Conference - MBS Commentary

Wed, 10:09 AM

At the risk of repeating too many words from yesterday's recap, we'll leave it at this: the Fed will hike by 50bps today. It won't be a surprise to t...

Rob Chrisman

NEW Servicing, Automation, Processing, Sales Tools; Non-QM and Jumbo investor News - Rob Chrisman

Wed, 10:11 AM

May the 4th be with you! Without the lisp, there are many forces tugging at lenders and vendors. Forget 2020 and 2021. Recruiters are asking LOs what ...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Recap: Fed Day Preview: What Are They Doing and How Much Will Bonds Care? - MBS Commentary

Tue, 4:03 PM

Fed Day Preview: What Are They Doing and How Much Will Bonds Care? Given all the bond market volatility seen...

Housing News

NEW Residential Building Continues to Dominate Construction Spending - Housing News

Tue, 2:08 PM

Total construction spending continues to roar ahead of its 2021 pace, led again in March by another double digit increase in the residential compone...

MBS Commentary

NEW MBS Live Morning: Setting a Pre-Fed Range on a Mostly Data Free Day - MBS Commentary

Tue, 11:23 AM

10yr yields came into the day looking comfortable in the rejection of the 3% ceiling that was briefly tested yesterday and overnight. That occurred a...

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MND's Daily Rate Survey

	Rate	Change	Points
30 Yr. Fixed	5.45%	+0.08%	0.40
15 Yr. Fixed	4.84%	+0.06%	0.40
30 Yr. FHA	5.05%	+0.05%	0.00
30 Yr. Jumbo	4.80%	+0.05%	0.00
5/1 ARM	4.60%	+0.01%	1.00
Updates Daily - Last Updated: 5/17

30 and 15 Year Fixed Rates

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Tue, 4:10 PM

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MBS & Treasury Markets

	Price/Yield	Change
UMBS 4.0	98.98	-0.61	98.67	107.28
GNMA 4.0	100.34	-0.41	99.56	106.25
UMBS-15 4.0	101.06	-0.13	100.63	106.47
10 YR	2.977	-0.018
30 YR	3.185	-0.009
Last Updated: 05/17/2022 05:05:19PM EST