Tue, Jan 28 2014, 8:31 AM
Durable goods data for December is due at 8:30 a.m. EST while the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index for November will be released at 9:00 a.m. ET. The...
Tue, Jan 28 2014, 6:48 PM
Adjustable
rate mortgages remain at historic lows Freddie Mac said today as the company
released results of its 30 th Annual
Adjustable-Rate Mort...
Mon, Jan 27 2014, 11:29 AM
"Rob, can our investors, vendors, Realtor clients, warehouse banks, and so on, influence our hiring practices?" My kneejerk answer is that in this co...
Mon, Jan 27 2014, 7:00 AM
The past two weeks have been good for bond markets, but the past two sessions specifically have been "weird good." That is, they've resulted in much ...
Mon, Jan 27 2014, 4:22 PM
2:20PM :
ALERT ISSUED:
MBS Hits Lows; Negative Reprice Risk Increasing
The Fannie Mae 4.0 coupon has just reached the lo...
Mon, Jan 27 2014, 3:38 PM
The number of major chains reporting
breaches of data security since the start of the Christmas holidays continues
to grow with Michaels the latest ...
Mon, Jan 27 2014, 3:32 PM
Landlords will be happy with a
report published by TransUnion, the credit reporting company. It says that, not only have rents risen in
each of f...
Mon, Jan 27 2014, 2:03 PM
December new home sales slipped 7.0 percent from revised
November figures the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban
Development ...
Fri, Jan 24 2014, 12:46 PM
In a speech given recently to a housing industry group Michael
Stegman assistant Treasury Secretary for Housing Finance Policy made a
plea for ren...
Fri, Jan 24 2014, 12:18 PM
Pending home sales in California
plummeted in December, falling 25.2 percent because of what the California
Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.) called...
Fri, Jan 24 2014, 12:05 PM
The only fashionable topic of conversation in financial markets at the moment is the global flight-to-safety. There are various root causes for this,...
Fri, Jan 24 2014, 10:29 AM
Just like the industry counted down to QM, now we can count down to
Girl Scout Cookie Season! We have about 16 days - but there is a lot
about the...
Fri, Jan 24 2014, 7:00 AM
Bond markets have several new friends so far in 2014 apart from the soft employment data at the beginning of the month. One of the most reliable fr...
Fri, Jan 24 2014, 4:18 PM
China... Argentina... Emerging market currencies panicking over tapering... Overvalued stock markets "overdue for a correction..." There are plenty ...
Fri, Jan 24 2014, 3:09 PM
Mortgage rates continued a strong move lower
today, benefiting from a global sell-off in risk-related assets.
What's a risk-related asset? I...
Thu, Jan 23 2014, 12:44 PM
Less than 24 hours after trading patterns suggested a risk that bond markets were confirming a bounce against their best levels of the month, those ...
Thu, Jan 23 2014, 11:51 AM
December existing home sales edged up 1.0 percent to a
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.87 million from 4.82 million in
November and
were 0.6 ...
Thu, Jan 23 2014, 10:56 AM
All is not bleak in residential lending. Note that yesterday
the MBA reported applications rose 4.7% last week versus +11.9% the
previous week. ...
Thu, Jan 23 2014, 9:59 AM
Sales of distressed properties made up a
larger share of home sales in 2013 than in 2012 RealtyTrac said today. Short sales and sales of bank-owne...
Thu, Jan 23 2014, 7:00 AM
Thursday brings the week's only dose of economic data. While none of the reports are top tier, markets may still take the opportunity to adjust the...
Thu, Jan 23 2014, 4:42 PM
Bond markets were stronger all day, with every ancillary consideration seeming to help them along. Right from the start of the overnight session, wea...
Thu, Jan 23 2014, 3:21 PM
Mortgage rates snapped
quickly lower today, matching or beating the best levels seen so far in
2014. Weakness over the past two days threatened...
Wed, Jan 22 2014, 12:44 PM
The Redfin realty firm said that
competition for houses as measured by bidding wars or multiple offers on
properties was mixed across the country be...
Wed, Jan 22 2014, 12:02 PM
The American Institute of Architects
(ABI) says that its leading indicator of construction activity , the
Architecture Billings Index (ABI) contrac...
Wed, Jan 22 2014, 11:56 AM
(Update: we issued an alert at 12:07pm as prices quickly slid to their lows).
Much like yesterday, bond markets were weaker overnight with Treasur...
Wed, Jan 22 2014, 9:40 AM
The
residential lending industry and the companies inside of it are always
in a state of flux. I am repeatedly hearing, "We're keeping a close ey...
Wed, Jan 22 2014, 8:54 AM
The volume of mortgage applications
increased again during the week ended January 17 according to information
released this morning by the Mortgag...
Wed, Jan 22 2014, 7:00 AM
Although there will be economic data on Thursday, and even though there is technically some today, the week remains decidedly focused on setting up ...
Wed, Jan 22 2014, 6:10 PM
One of the recurring questions on the MBS Live Dashboard today was simply "what's up with this weakness?" Normally, there would be a logical connect...
Wed, Jan 22 2014, 5:21 PM
A Treasury Department official said
today that despite arguments that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) are
financially flush and that, with the...
Wed, Jan 22 2014, 3:32 PM
Mortgage rates edged
modestly higher for a second straight day, though they're still in a
lower range than most of December and early January. ...
Tue, Jan 21 2014, 11:59 AM
Sales in 2013 were 5.9 percent below
sales in 2012 the California Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.) has announced,
and December sales also were do...
Tue, Jan 21 2014, 11:52 AM
Bond markets were weaker overnight with yields on 10yr Treasuries rising above 2.86 early this morning. Some of the weakness was attributed to a Wall...
Tue, Jan 21 2014, 10:49 AM
It is almost a given that the mortgage
market will be smaller this year than last so discussions have turned to the
availability of mortgage credit...
Tue, Jan 21 2014, 10:04 AM
How 'bout that Chinese housing market? New
home sales last year exceeded $1 trillion for the first time as
property prices in cities the governm...
Tue, Jan 21 2014, 7:00 AM
Today's session is emblematic of most of the rest of the week. There is no scheduled economic data and trading is just as likely to be driven by posi...
Tue, Jan 21 2014, 4:04 PM
Foreclosure starts in California during
the fourth quarter dipped to an eight year low , returning to levels last seen before
the beginning of the ...
Tue, Jan 21 2014, 4:03 PM
MBS tell a bit of sunnier story than Treasuries today as Fannie 4.0s were able to break their 2014 highs by one whole tick (1/32nd). 10yr Treasuries ...
Tue, Jan 21 2014, 2:11 PM
Mortgage rates were
slightly higher today, but remain near their best levels in more than 6
weeks. The first rate sheets of the day were notice...
Fri, Jan 17 2014, 12:35 PM
Data presented by CoreLogic in its new
edition of MarketPulse raises an
interesting question about employment in the construction sector . Is th...
Fri, Jan 17 2014, 12:09 PM
While this morning's data releases haven't been top tier market movers, we did get a bit of a head fake toward weaker territory starting just after 9a...
Fri, Jan 17 2014, 10:42 AM
"The
check's in the mail!" Hah! The Fed reports the number of checks paid
has declined from close to $50B in the 1990s to about $20B. With tax...
Fri, Jan 17 2014, 10:26 AM
All three Census Bureau/Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD) measures of residential construction activity,
housing permits, starts, an...
Fri, Jan 17 2014, 7:00 AM
September was a pretty good month for bond markets, assuming you're able to overlook the fact that it took a massive sell-off with 10yr yields hitting...
Fri, Jan 17 2014, 5:44 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower for the second day in a row, bringing
them back to the same 6-week lows seen on Monday, on average. Some
lenders...
Fri, Jan 17 2014, 5:10 PM
Most of today's movement was seen in between data releases as opposed to immediately following. In other words, Housing Starts came out this morning ...
Thu, Jan 16 2014, 12:44 PM
The strong growth in the home remodeling
market which began in the second quarter of 2013 will continue through the
first half of 2014 according t...
Thu, Jan 16 2014, 12:21 PM
Both the 830am and 10am sets of economic data left MBS incrementally better off. At 830am, it was primarily the big jump in Continued Claims in the J...
Thu, Jan 16 2014, 10:47 AM
Applications for the purchase of newly
construction homes were down again in December, declining 11 percent from
November's levels. November sale...
Thu, Jan 16 2014, 10:42 AM
I just read that last year 4,213,157 people got married. I don’t want
to start any trouble, but shouldn’t that be an even number? While we’re
goss...
