Fri, Feb 3 2012, 4:21 PM
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Fri, Feb 3 2012, 3:44 PM
Three major banks and Virginia-based
MERSCORP, Inc. and its subsidiary Mortgage Electronic Registrations Systems
( MERS ) were sued Friday by the st...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 3:01 PM
The monthly Employment Situation Report was released at 8:30am this morning, with much better-than-expected results. Stocks rallied sharply and most ...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 2:45 PM
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told
the Financial Stability Oversight Council that the financial system is getting
stronger and safer and tha...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 2:40 PM
HOPE NOW, the voluntary private
sector alliance of mortgage industry stakeholders, recently concluded a two day
conference in Washington which focus...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 2:09 PM
There is plenty of play-by-play on the post-NFP sell-off in the MBS Recap . If you haven't seen those updates already, that's a good place to start,...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 12:50 PM
We've posed this question almost a month ago ( read more... ) and the answer is fairly similar this time around. That said, MBS prices are higher ...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 11:22 AM
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Thu, Feb 2 2012, 9:18 AM
Yesterday,
as I was standing in line at Franklin's BBQ in Austin, Texas, my head began to
spin. Not because of the great smell, or from wondering wh...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 9:01 AM
Four
former investment bankers and traders from the Credit Suisse Group were charged
by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Wednesday vio...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 8:06 AM
Domestic economic data is in slightly shorter supply on Thursday
after two more robust days. But what it lacks in sheer number of
reports, it mak...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 5:22 PM
CoreLogic and Lender Processing Services
(LPS) have each released their most recent Home Price Indices . CoreLogic's HPI covers December; LPS's cov...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 4:22 PM
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Thu, Feb 2 2012, 4:14 PM
Homeowners who refinanced their homes during the fourth
quarter of 2011 either refinanced for about the same amount or actually brought
cash to th...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 2:59 PM
For the second day in a row, Mortgages Rates
are just slightly better than unchanged. Best-Execution
remains at 3.875% for conventional 30yr fi...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 11:22 AM
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Wed, Feb 1 2012, 11:06 AM
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama laid out a Blueprint for an America Built t...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 10:48 AM
10:24AM (MBS Live) - Bond Markets Continue Weakening After Latest Data. MBS Outperform
Longer-dated Treasury yields continued to climb this mornin...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 10:34 AM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ) announced
today the first step in a new initiative to convent foreclosed properties (REO)
in the hardest...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 10:20 AM
Here we
are in February already, which has Valentine's Day. Some guys out there look
forward to that day with about as much anticipation as hugging ...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 8:50 AM
The
Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey
reported that mortgage applications as measured by its Market Composi...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 8:02 AM
Wednesday brings another relatively robust set of economic reports in
the morning, but those reports will have to speak fairly loudly in
order to ...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 4:22 PM
Saying that the housing crisis struck right at the
heart of what it means to be middle class, President Barack Obama has begun to
flesh out the h...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 4:22 PM
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Wed, Feb 1 2012, 3:53 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association ( MBA ) provided its annual
assessment of The State of the Mortgage Industry in a press conference Wednesday
afte...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 2:17 PM
The Attorney General of Oregon announced
today that he will join in the so-called 50-state Attorneys General settlement
with five major financial ...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 1:50 PM
Mortgages Rates
are just slightly better than unchanged on the day. Best-Execution remains at 3.875% for conventional 30yr fixed loans, and the sl...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 11:29 AM
With the 10:00 AM print of this month's Consumer Confidence report, the morning's economic data is done. Stocks and bonds hadn't been too well connect...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 9:52 AM
Do you
think it takes a long time to have a loan purchased by Wells or MetLife? Try
running the world's longest lab
experiment , begun in the 19...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 9:44 AM
The
Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ) issued a statement late Monday refuting a
story from ProPublic and NPR
that a complicated investm...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 8:05 AM
Shortly after domestic markets closed on Monday, Greece's PM Lucas
Papademos told reporters that hoped to conclude debt negotiations by the
end ...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 4:15 PM
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Tue, Jan 31 2012, 2:58 PM
Home prices continued to fall in November according to the
S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices released this morning. Both the 10-City and the 20-Ci...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 2:33 PM
After setting new record lows yesterday, Mortgages Rates
rose slightly today, though 3.875% best-execution remains intact. Rather than affect the...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 11:24 AM
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Mon, Jan 30 2012, 10:55 AM
After the Fed completes scheduled buying in 8-10yr maturities at 11am, potential market movers on the calendar are in short supply. Even then, the bi...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 10:09 AM
Sorry, did
I hit the incorrect letter? The Administration announced important enhancements
to the Making Home Affordable Program, including the Hom...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 8:06 AM
This weeks begins the same way last week ended, with Greece's negotiations with private bond-holders in focus. Most recently this morning, the FT is ...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 4:38 PM
The bond markets took the latest Fed OMC announcements as an "all-clear"
sign to buy Treasuries. The move has
pushed the Treasury yield curve a...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 4:21 PM
One of the more confusing MBS topics is the concept of "dollar rolls."
While it seems esoteric, secondary markets people are implicitly considering
...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 4:21 PM
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Mon, Jan 30 2012, 2:15 PM
It's happened before and it happened again today: Mortgages Rates
hit new all time lows today. Please note, that the actual interest rate you wou...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 1:19 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced on Friday that it was extending
the Home Affordable Modification Program ( HAMP ) for another year - thr...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 1:03 PM
Investors
have been busy in recent weeks, and with no college or pro football, no NASCAR,
no baseball, why not read about recent guideline changes? ...
Fri, Jan 27 2012, 12:55 PM
The trading day is rapidly growing uneventful and charts suggest that quite a few market participants already have one or more feet out the door for t...
Fri, Jan 27 2012, 11:19 AM
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Fri, Jan 27 2012, 11:15 AM
The Lender Processing Services (LPS) Mortgage Monitor Report for December show
improvement in a number of the metrics it tracks. Many measures of d...
Fri, Jan 27 2012, 9:44 AM
"The trouble with quotes on the
internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are
genuine." So said Abraham Lincoln. But here is...
Fri, Jan 27 2012, 7:56 AM
Volume in the overnight session was just under recent averages but respectable overall. 10yr Treasuries rose as high as 1.9681 after a relatively str...
Fri, Jan 27 2012, 4:19 PM
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