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Neither side of the market (debt/bonds or stocks/equity) feels like it has enough information to move out of recent holding patterns. These sideways trends emerged last week after a an apparent "New Year Bounce" toward higher stock prices and b...
Rob Chrisman
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Are rates too high given where the U.S. economy is? Traders, investors, and the Fed think they’re where they need to be, given the information we have. Others believe they will head lower this year due to a slowing economy. The release of bank ... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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Neither side of the market (debt/bonds or stocks/equity) feels like it has enough information to move out of recent holding patterns. These sideways trends emerged last week after a an apparent "New Year Bounce" toward higher stock prices and b... (read more)
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates held their ground today, keeping them in line with long-term lows achieved over the past 2 weeks. To be fair, it was the previous week that offered the biggest benefits, but last week was no slouch. Factoring out the first few days of ... (read more)
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Housing News
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At least one part of the shutdown is over as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced it has resumed its Income Verification Express Service (IVES.) The service, which provides tax transcripts essential for processing mortgage applications for no... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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My cat Myrtle has never flown coach. She doesn’t have the same complaint I have of airline workers who don’t seem to realize that “full” means full. For some reason they’ve created “completely full,” “e... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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The overnight trading session was thinly-traded due to a holiday closure in Tokyo. Buyers outnumbered sellers until the domestic session. Promptly after the 820am CME Open, sellers showed up in US Treasuries. Bond market weakness ra... (read more)
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