Thu, Jul 23 2015, 7:33 AM
One of the greatest disservices to the average market-watcher is the age old notion of stocks being the opposite of bonds. This phenomenon is refer...
Thu, Jul 23 2015, 6:15 PM
Mortgage rates are looking like they've exhausted the playbook in terms of making big moves down the field, yet they continue to pick up a few yar...
Thu, Jul 23 2015, 6:00 PM
Jobless Claims were exceptionally strong this morning, coming in low enough for such cute headline phrases as "lowest since 1973." True, the number i...
Thu, Jul 23 2015, 3:29 PM
While it is certainly good news we wish
we could find a new and more interesting way to say it. Nonetheless, foreclosure activity has
declined aga...
Thu, Jul 23 2015, 3:20 PM
Despite
improved consumer spending and stronger residential and non-residential
investments Fannie Mae's Economic and Strategic Research team are ho...
Thu, Jul 23 2015, 1:20 PM
For the 4th consecutive day, bond market trading was exceptionally calm overnight with Treasury yields continuing to hold the same recent range. Th...
Wed, Jul 22 2015, 11:19 AM
There was unabashedly good news from the National
Association of Realtors®
(NAR) this morning. Not only were
existing home sales in June at the ...
Wed, Jul 22 2015, 10:11 AM
As expected, the CFPB issued a final rule announcing the delay of the effective date for TRID from August 1, 2015 to October 3, 2015 .
"The CFPB be...
Wed, Jul 22 2015, 9:18 AM
With the distortions of the Independence Day holiday week and the
subsequent week's recovery now history mortgage application activity settled
down....
Wed, Jul 22 2015, 7:33 AM
After last month's Existing Home Sales tally came in at an annualized pace of 5.35mln, this month's result will be within striking distance of a 9 yea...
Wed, Jul 22 2015, 5:28 PM
Mortgage rates haven't made any sudden moves recently. Not only that, but most of the moves have been in a friendly direction this month. There...
Wed, Jul 22 2015, 5:24 PM
Little has changed from the mid-day summary. In it, we discussed the fact that today's economic data and corporate bond issuance constituted headwind...
Wed, Jul 22 2015, 2:47 PM
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ha...
Wed, Jul 22 2015, 1:24 PM
Looking at charts, we might well conclude that bond market trading remains uneventful. This wouldn't be a surprise , after all, considering the here...
Tue, Jul 21 2015, 12:42 PM
We've been talking about the lack of passion, news, and trading activity over the past few days, but as of this morning, we'd only really seen rates m...
Tue, Jul 21 2015, 10:30 AM
"Rob, I find it very interesting that the FHFA reported that the Agencies have selected smaller and less financially stable companies to receive lower...
Tue, Jul 21 2015, 7:33 AM
Australia will release its CPI data today. It doesn't have any bearing on interest rates in the US, and there's no reason for you to know that it's...
Tue, Jul 21 2015, 5:23 PM
Within the recent context of the summer doldrums in bond markets, today was a bit more upbeat. It didn't begin that way though. After a purely flat...
Tue, Jul 21 2015, 3:47 PM
Mortgage rates reversed course today, getting back in line with the recent trend of slow, steady improvements. The average lender is now back in...
Mon, Jul 20 2015, 10:24 AM
I
am visiting Denver for much of this week, and heard this quote: "Our
company culture? It consists of talking about our company culture."
Kiddi...
Mon, Jul 20 2015, 7:33 AM
Thanksgiving, Spring Break, or Christmas are the likely candidates for the busiest travel times of the year, right? While that would stand to reason,...
Mon, Jul 20 2015, 5:48 PM
Mortgage rates did move microscopically higher today, but that's about the worst thing to be said about them. In fact, it's one of the only thin...
Mon, Jul 20 2015, 5:42 PM
Today's session did a great job sticking to its likely script. That means that it was exceptionally uneventful in terms of volume and volatility. ...
Mon, Jul 20 2015, 5:23 PM
Since the recession officially ended a lack of labor and materials has
blamed in part for the sluggishness of new home construction, at least by th...
Mon, Jul 20 2015, 1:34 PM
First and foremost, the overriding theme today is that it's every bit the uninspired session we expected it to be. Part of that expectation was that ...
Fri, Jul 17 2015, 12:02 PM
The clear message from today's trading range in bond markets is that this weekend will finally be an actual weekend. That's a change of pace from the...
Fri, Jul 17 2015, 10:24 AM
The two leading indicators among measures of residential
construction activity, building permits and housing starts, posted healthy gains
in June ...
Fri, Jul 17 2015, 10:13 AM
Boy
how things have changed. Life is so expensive now; maybe that's why the
living arrangement stats have changed so dramatically since 1967. In
...
Fri, Jul 17 2015, 7:33 AM
There are three moderately important economic reports on tap today. In fact, 2 of them--CPI and Housing Starts--can be fairly respectable market mov...
Fri, Jul 17 2015, 5:41 PM
Domestic bond marched to their own beat today, holding much steadier than European bonds overnight and standing their ground against a stock rally thi...
Fri, Jul 17 2015, 5:40 PM
Mortgage rates continued the recent trend of very small improvements today. Most lenders are essentially unchanged, and while a few rate sheets ...
Fri, Jul 17 2015, 2:52 PM
Home remodeling is expected to soon kick back into gear . LIRA, the Leading Indicator of Remodeling
Activity produced by the Joint Center for Housi...
Fri, Jul 17 2015, 2:50 PM
The
first half of 2015 saw foreclosure activity continue to decline. RealtyTrac's Midyear U.S. Foreclosure Market
Report shows that 597,589 proper...
Fri, Jul 17 2015, 2:43 PM
The importance of cash in home sale transactions
declined in April for the 28 th consecutive month. CoreLogic said on Thursday that all-cash home
...
Thu, Jul 16 2015, 10:32 AM
First off, it's important to note that everything is still playing out inside a narrow range overall. We're about to discuss improvements in bond m...
Thu, Jul 16 2015, 10:16 AM
A number of selling updates to Freddie Mac's
Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide are slated to go into effect over the next
several months. The lar...
Thu, Jul 16 2015, 9:54 AM
Applications for mortgages to purchase newly constructed
homes rose again in June and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said this
bodes well ...
Thu, Jul 16 2015, 9:53 AM
Earnest Hemingway was born in the comfortable Midwestern suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, a place he described as full of, "wide lawns and narrow minds."...
Thu, Jul 16 2015, 7:33 AM
Greece voted overwhelmingly in favor of accepting the bailout terms negotiated this past weekend. The vote took place after the closing bell yesterda...
Thu, Jul 16 2015, 6:25 PM
Greek votes, German votes, European official comments, Draghi Press conference, Jobless Claims, NAHB, Philly Fed, Greek bridge loans, and more congres...
Thu, Jul 16 2015, 5:36 PM
Mortgage rates are doing a great job of holding their ground after two days of solid improvement. If we look closely enough, today's rate sheets a...
Thu, Jul 16 2015, 1:25 PM
Builder confidence may finally be back
to stay. After yo-yoing in and out of
the "good" range of 50 or more for years, the National Association of ...
Wed, Jul 15 2015, 10:16 AM
Yes, IT systems have sailed through things like Y2K (remember that?) and the leap second on June 30 th . But there are bigger challenges. The Federal ...
Wed, Jul 15 2015, 9:21 AM
The take-away from the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) current press
release on mortgage volume was its summary of performance over the last t...
Wed, Jul 15 2015, 7:32 AM
Both in terms of scheduled data on the calendar and unscheduled headline potential from Greece, today is action-packed. The domestic economic data is...
Wed, Jul 15 2015, 5:49 PM
Mortgage rates once again focused more on domestic issues today as Greece had not yet voted to approve its bailout by the time US markets closed....
Wed, Jul 15 2015, 5:49 PM
Most of Yellen's congressional testimony today was occupied by political axe-grinding rather than thoughtful dialogue on the path of monetary policy. ...
Wed, Jul 15 2015, 5:32 PM
The financial crisis was obviously better for the rental housing market than
it was for the purchase market but the health of the former appears to b...
Wed, Jul 15 2015, 1:45 PM
It's been a tremendously busy morning for bond markets with news coming in on multiple fronts. Not only that, but much of the news is at least worthy...
Tue, Jul 14 2015, 11:56 AM
We've had a nice little break from the recent norm today. Domestic economic data is actually responsible for the lion's share of bond market moveme...
