Tue, Dec 6 2011, 11:18 AM
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Tue, Dec 6 2011, 10:36 AM
In news
that should surprise no one, the Census Bureau reports that the U.S. population 65 and older is growing
faster than any other group and is ...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 10:27 AM
A
moderate Pennsylvania senator has offered legislation to end the impasse over
continuing payroll tax cuts that have been in place since the first ...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 8:30 AM
There are no significant scheduled economic reports set to release today and tonight's MBS-specific report on prepayment speeds won't be a market-move...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 4:24 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
reports that, in the third quarter of 2011, delinquencies among commercial and
multifamily mortgages were m...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 4:15 PM
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Tue, Dec 6 2011, 3:26 PM
Mortgage Rates
remain in the same range they've been in for weeks, although nearer to low side of that range today. The market phenomena driving r...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 1:27 PM
Two more set of housing price data were
released on Tuesday in addition to the Lender Processing Services (LPS) information
covered here earlier . ...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 11:31 AM
So far, today has been more about a relatively contained, sideways momentum in response to a more significant movements in the overnight session. Cas...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 11:18 AM
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Mon, Dec 5 2011, 10:17 AM
"Rob
- my rep just wrote her clients an e-mail regarding gifts for this holiday
season. Instead of contributing to the trade imbalance and sending o...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 8:47 AM
This week's economic calendar is one of the lightest of the year, averaging just one report per morning, with 2 of the five coming today. In addition...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 4:18 PM
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Mon, Dec 5 2011, 3:00 PM
Commercial real estate loans were the principal cause of the
five bank failures reported in November according to Trepp's November 2011 U.S.
Bank ...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 2:31 PM
The most recent alert from MBS Live provides background for the charts that follow:
Potential Reprices For The Better as MBS Break into New High...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 2:09 PM
Mortgage Rates are little changed to start the week. There has been and will continue to be extremely limited amounts of domestic Economic data thi...
Fri, Dec 2 2011, 11:16 AM
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Fri, Dec 2 2011, 10:52 AM
Radar Logic has headlined its September
RPX 25-MSA Composite with the disquieting headline "We May be Witnessing the
End of the Beginning of the Hou...
Fri, Dec 2 2011, 10:26 AM
What is
Barack buying Michelle this year? A little non-owner unit, perhaps, but not
thanks to Freddie Mac's HomeSteps , which is owner-occupied onl...
Fri, Dec 2 2011, 9:35 AM
Creation of a multi-agency task
force was announced on Thursday designed specifically to deter scam artists
preying on homeowners looking for he...
Fri, Dec 2 2011, 8:27 AM
From MBS Live Moments Ago:
10yr yields moved just under 2bps higher from 3pm marks in an exceedingly quiet overnight session. There's some "risk-on...
Fri, Dec 2 2011, 4:16 PM
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Fri, Dec 2 2011, 3:24 PM
Although markets had been focusing on this morning's Employment Situation Report as a high-risk event (and indeed it was), the report was mixed enough...
Fri, Dec 2 2011, 2:30 PM
By now you've heard that U/E came in at 8.6% today versus a 9.0% expectation. So naturally, with labor metrics that bullish, bond markets had to rall...
Thu, Dec 1 2011, 11:20 AM
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Thu, Dec 1 2011, 11:09 AM
Although MBS and Treasuries rallied a bit after the slightly weaker-than-expected Jobless Claims data this morning, they soon met resistance at famili...
Thu, Dec 1 2011, 11:06 AM
Sometimes
in the financial markets there is just too much going on to comprehend. For
example, yesterday the Fed (the U.S. Central Bank), in conjun...
Thu, Dec 1 2011, 8:47 AM
Here was where the market stood just before the 830am release of weekly Jobless Claims
MBS Open Much Weaker Despite Uneventful Overnight Session ...
Thu, Dec 1 2011, 4:20 PM
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Thu, Dec 1 2011, 3:10 PM
Volume and volatility have left the building this afternoon as markets aren't keen on making any big movements ahead of tomorrow's Employment Situatio...
Thu, Dec 1 2011, 3:05 PM
Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Shaun Donovan told a Congressional hearing on " Perspectives
on the Health of the FHA Single-family Insuranc...
Thu, Dec 1 2011, 2:56 PM
Mortgage
delinquencies continued to decline in October according to information released
today by Lender Processing Services. At
the same time fo...
Thu, Dec 1 2011, 2:23 PM
Much like yesterday (and the day before), Mortgage-Backed-Securities (MBS), began the day
in weaker territory and rallied in the latter part of the ...
Wed, Nov 30 2011, 11:35 AM
According
to a recent survey by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the typical U.S. homebuyer spent less and
borrowed less in 2011 . NAR's...
Wed, Nov 30 2011, 11:31 AM
MBS are currently responding favorably to a supportive event in benchmark 10's. The fact that 10yr yields (so far) appear to be holding the line just ...
Wed, Nov 30 2011, 11:20 AM
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Wed, Nov 30 2011, 10:45 AM
Pending home sales took a big jump in October, surging
10.4 percent above October figures and ending 9.2 percent higher than one year
earlier. T...
Wed, Nov 30 2011, 9:26 AM
Mortgage applications were down sharply
during the week ended November 24, a week that was shortened by the
Thanksgiving Day holiday. The Mortgage...
Wed, Nov 30 2011, 8:43 AM
This morning's alert from MBS Live:
Uneventful Overnight Session Meets Morning Tape-Bombs 8:29AM
Although 10yr yields saw some fast-paced m...
Wed, Nov 30 2011, 4:20 PM
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Wed, Nov 30 2011, 4:20 PM
Sixteen House Democrats have asked the
Federal Housing Finance Agency to justify its position on reducing principal on
loans owned by Freddie Mac a...
Wed, Nov 30 2011, 4:18 PM
Mortgage Insurance Companies of America
( MICA ), the trade group representing the largest private mortgage insurance
(PMI) companies has issued a s...
Wed, Nov 30 2011, 3:10 PM
Much like yesterday, Mortgage-Backed-Securities (MBS), began the day in weaker territory and rallied in the latter part of the day. Improving MBS are...
Tue, Nov 29 2011, 12:42 PM
Over one-quarter of all mortgaged homes
in the U.S. are now either underwater or close to it according to data released
today by CoreLogic. In t...
Tue, Nov 29 2011, 11:52 AM
Bond markets are recovering now after losing a bit of ground into the AM hours. None of the movement so far has been enough for a reprice for the wor...
Tue, Nov 29 2011, 11:50 AM
Ineptocracy
(in-ept-o-cra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are
elected by the least capable of producing, and where the ...
Tue, Nov 29 2011, 11:22 AM
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Tue, Nov 29 2011, 11:12 AM
The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price
Indices for the third quarter of 2010 indicate that nationally home prices were
flat relative to the second quarte...
Tue, Nov 29 2011, 9:54 AM
The Office of the Inspector
General for the Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA-OIG ) will report to
Congress today on its oversight of FHFA.
Th...
Tue, Nov 29 2011, 8:29 AM
Here's this morning's update and video from MBS Live:
MBS and Treasuries Slightly Weaker in Quiet Overnight Session 8:23AM
In the context o...
