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Mortgage rates were slightly higher for most lenders today even though underlying bond markets suggested the opposite. This is partly a timing issue. Yesterday saw bond markets weaken throughout the day. Weaker bonds imply higher rates. After a certain amount of weakness, mortgage lenders will adjust rates and re-issue new rate sheets (aka a "negative reprice"). Many lenders did this yesterday, but not all of them. Even among the group that repriced, most of them did so earlier in the afternoon and bonds continued to weaken through the end of the day. The net effect of all of the above is that most lenders had some catching up to do with bond market weakness that they hadn't fully accounted for yesterday. Those that didn't merely kept rates roughly unchanged. Intraday volatility was, once again
Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates were slightly higher for most lenders today even though underlying bond markets suggested the opposite. This is partly a timing issue. Yesterday saw bond markets weaken throughout the day. Weaker bonds imply higher rates. After a certa... (read more)
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Housing News
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If they had a report card, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) would have been afraid to take it home to mom and dad. Laura S. Wertheimer, FHFA's Inspector General, reported to the House Committee on Financial Services on Thursday about the ove... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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“Rob, are you hearing of companies where branches are being picked off due to new budgetary constraints, and where new recruiting has become problematic for primarily the same reason?” Yup. Companies continue to look at management or regi... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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I started using some more serious words to talk about bond market weakness yesterday, but I'll make them simple and keep the assessment short this morning. In a nutshell, we've gone from tracking a linear, well-behaved, modestly-positive correc... (read more)
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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A day after hitting the lowest levels in more than 2 months, mortgage rates bounced back up today. The good news is that they didn't land too far from yesterday's levels in the grand scheme of things, and are still technically closer to the bottom of... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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At first glance, today was all about a de-escalation of yesterday's Syria rhetoric from Trump (re: "missiles"). Given that we were able to credit yesterday's news for helping bonds improve, it isn't too much to ask to believe today's news could... (read more)
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