Sat, Feb 11 2012, 2:34 PM
On the
heels of the State of the Union address, the
MBA has issued its annual State of the Mortgage Industry release, and the
assessment is g...
Fri, Feb 10 2012, 11:22 AM
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Fri, Feb 10 2012, 9:31 AM
"Fat,
drunk & stupid is no way to go through life son." One probably doesn't
hear that admonishment much in the halls of the Financial Crimes Enforc...
Fri, Feb 10 2012, 7:47 AM
How many times must we go through the same motions surrounding the
various bailout/solvency/reform issues in Greece? Granted, things are
just sli...
Fri, Feb 10 2012, 4:22 PM
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Fri, Feb 10 2012, 3:12 PM
Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben S.
Bernanke , speaking to the National Association of Home Builders, said that the
typical post-recession behavi...
Fri, Feb 10 2012, 2:59 PM
With yesterday's increases, Mortgages Rates moved to the edge of their recently long and stable stay at a 3.875% Best-Execution level. While some l...
Fri, Feb 10 2012, 2:21 PM
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Thu, Feb 9 2012, 12:38 PM
As prices continued to decline during
the fourth quarter of 2011 in most metropolitan areas of the U.S., housing
affordability rose due not only t...
Thu, Feb 9 2012, 11:51 AM
A
final settlement between the nation's five largest mortgage servicers , two federal
agencies and 49 of the states' attorneys general (AGs) was an...
Thu, Feb 9 2012, 11:17 AM
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Thu, Feb 9 2012, 9:51 AM
Top Realtors
and loan officers know that words make a
difference in dealing with buyers and borrowers. It may seem obvious, but
word choice, be i...
Thu, Feb 9 2012, 9:06 AM
" House lock " is not a major factor when
it comes to a homeowner's ability to find a job. A
working paper commissioned by the Federal Reserve Ba...
Thu, Feb 9 2012, 8:07 AM
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Thu, Feb 9 2012, 4:22 PM
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Thu, Feb 9 2012, 3:06 PM
Mortgages Rates moved higher today at the quickest pace of the week. For the second time this year, the 3.875% Best-Execution rate on 30yr Fixed Con...
Thu, Feb 9 2012, 2:42 PM
Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. Attorney for
the Eastern District of New York announced the settlement of claims her office
had brought against Bank of Ameri...
Thu, Feb 9 2012, 2:27 PM
Latest Alert From MBS Live:
Treasuries, MBS Attempting to Turn a Corner Following 30yr Auction - 2:06PM
Volume
surged briefly following th...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 12:54 PM
According to CoreLogic, the Santa Ana
California based provider of information and business services, there were a
total of 830,000 foreclosures na...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 11:59 AM
What,
exactly, qualifies a person as "rich"? It depends who you are - here in
the States the wealth of the top 1% is about 225 times greater than t...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 11:17 AM
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Wed, Feb 8 2012, 8:58 AM
Mortgage
rates broke another set of records during the week ended February 3,
establishing several new historic lows.
In response, the seasonally ...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 8:06 AM
The theme of light economic data continues on Wednesday with MBA
Mortgage Apps being the only item of note. Even then,
it's only notable due to i...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 4:17 PM
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Wed, Feb 8 2012, 3:46 PM
For several sessions in a row, Mortgages Rates
have moved in the opposite direction from the previous session,
although even the bigger examples...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 3:10 PM
For several sessions in a row, Mortgages Rates have moved in the opposite direction from the previous session, although even the bigger examples of ...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 2:05 PM
One of the financial institutions that are
party to the reported settlement agreement with the attorneys general of the
majority of the states is re...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 2:01 PM
After the 10yr auction, production MBS and the long end of the yield curve didn't move much at first. But it now seems that some additional bid for t...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 11:29 AM
Details are still sketchy, but
apparently a settlement has been agreed upon between five major banks and a
majority of the states' attorneys general...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 11:17 AM
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Tue, Feb 7 2012, 11:00 AM
This is
Black (African-American) History Month. The event began as Black History Week
in 1926. For many years, the second week of February was set a...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 7:59 AM
There are all sorts of ways to divide market moving information into
different categories. One of our favorites is also one of the most
broad: sc...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 4:17 PM
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Tue, Feb 7 2012, 4:11 PM
A sub-committee of the House Financial Services
committee today approved the FHA Emergency Solvency Act which is intended to
shore up the finances...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 3:47 PM
Although the recently confirmed 3.875% Best-Execution level remains intact for 30yr fixed, conventional loans, Mortgages Rates moved slightly higher...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 3:06 PM
MBS went through an interesting Employment Friday. I know it’s hard to remember back after a long weekend (especially for N.E. fans), but the bond ma...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 2:31 PM
Bond markets had already been trending into negative territory leading up to today's 3yr auction, but took a turn for the worse afterwards with some h...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 12:49 PM
( MBS Live ) - Against today's data-free backdrop, the only real market mover has been the earlier scheduled Fed buying (30yr sector of Treasuries) th...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 11:17 AM
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Mon, Feb 6 2012, 10:14 AM
Some will
call this a useful tool and a time saver - others will say it is another sign
of our privacy going away and "Big Brother" seeing everythin...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 8:02 AM
The Employment Situation Report is normally preceded by "sideways
uncertainty" and followed by noticeable directionality. But this time
around, t...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 4:41 PM
The
Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Treasury issued the
administration's January Housing Scorecard on Monday. The report i...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 4:17 PM
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Mon, Feb 6 2012, 4:17 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association
(MBA) reports that commercial and multifamily loan originations were down 7
percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 c...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 3:34 PM
Following Friday's employment data, Mortgages Rates
moved quickly higher. In most cases, the changes were seen not in the quoted interest rates t...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 1:26 PM
The list of Improving Housing Markets (IHM) maintained by
the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) took another big jump in
February, rising...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 11:21 AM
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Fri, Feb 3 2012, 10:34 AM
The e-mail
wires here in Miami have been burning up with...e-mails.
PHH clients received a note from Norm
Fitzgerald ,
explaining the recent re...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 9:18 AM
The recent drop in rates has created some
interesting situations in the market, especially for lenders . First of
all, I'm not aware of any c...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 8:00 AM
First Friday of the month and time, once again, for The Employment
Situation Report, or more specifically, the Non-Farm Payrolls headline.
Both M...
