Fri, Sep 30 2011, 4:54 PM
Mortgage Rates
continued to improve today, adding on to yesterday's already impressive gains. Best-Ex moved solidly down to lower of the
two rate...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 4:24 PM
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Fri, Sep 30 2011, 3:30 PM
In yesterday's commentary, we noted that the stock lever has been well-connected and that the same could be true of today. As you'll see in the chart...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 2:24 PM
The passion Adam Quinones has for improving the entire
landscape of housing finance is undeniable. I've never met anyone who has
cared more about w...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 1:31 PM
The eight national banks and single federal
savings association servicing the largest loan portfolios reported that first
mortgage performance decli...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 11:24 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Thu, Sep 29 2011, 10:58 AM
When it comes to mortgage fraud, the
chickens are still coming home to roost from the housing boom of the last
decade. The Financial Crimes Enforce...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 10:51 AM
With two
business days left in this month, and companies scrambling to fund either high
balance loans or Streamline loans where rates have dropped e...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 8:22 AM
The Treasury market is taking a breather and equity futures are pointing higher following a last hour sell-off Wednesday that pushed indexes down roug...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 4:51 PM
For the 2nd day in a row, MBS made progress in bouncing supportively off what had once been incredibly firm resistance. We speak of course of the "co...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 4:24 PM
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Thu, Sep 29 2011, 3:55 PM
After leveling-off yesterday Mortgage Rates saw some solid improvements
today, in many cases dropping Best-Execution rates by an eighth of a poin...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 2:40 PM
While
overall rates of mortgage related fraud appear to have fallen significantly in
2011, some particular manifestations have increased dramaticall...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 2:10 PM
The August Pending Home Sales Index issued by the National
Association of Realtors slipped
slightly from July's numbers, portending a few more ...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 11:30 AM
Most of my
friends barely know what a mortgage broker is, yet the president brought up the
term in a speech: "...it is our responsibility to make su...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 11:19 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Wed, Sep 28 2011, 9:00 AM
Lower
interest rates following the Federal Reserve's announcement fueled a surge in mortgage applications late
last week. According to the Mortga...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 8:53 AM
Global markets are mixed as European officials quarrel over the terms of Greece's bailout package, but the U.S. market looks to another day of equity ...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 5:30 PM
From MBSonMND : "Things have no doubt been volatile this week. We continue to hear and see that this has more to do with month and quarter-end positi...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 4:42 PM
After several days of progressively
worse Mortgage Rates , things turned around a bit
today. Or rather, it might be better to
say that things ...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 4:19 PM
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Wed, Sep 28 2011, 2:42 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is requesting public comment on two
alternative mortgage servicing compensation structures . The propos...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 1:57 PM
HOPE
Now, which was the first program initiated to deal with the mounting foreclosure
problem in 2007, has reached a level of 4.86 million loan mod...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 11:19 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Tue, Sep 27 2011, 11:05 AM
Some
things you just can't make up. Arch West died last week of natural causes at
the age of 97, and when he is buried this weekend, Arch West will ...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 10:56 AM
Home prices rose for the fourth straight month according to
the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for July which were released
Tuesday. Whil...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 8:40 AM
Global equity markets continue to rally Tuesday as investors bet on Europe finding a solution for its various debt problems.
The Treasury market is...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 5:11 PM
Despite a bit of a bounce back late in the day, MBS sank to 102-00 in Fannie 3.5's by 3pm today. This was the highest that 3.5's traded the morning o...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 4:50 PM
Mortgage Rates continued higher today with Best-Execution
rates about an eighth of a point higher.
There are
all sorts of challenges in the ...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 4:19 PM
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Tue, Sep 27 2011, 3:39 PM
Freddie Mac's September 2011 Economic Outlook is focused on the recent Federal Reserve Bank announcement of its Maturity
Extension Program (aka Ope...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 11:48 AM
Sales of new single-family homes continue to drag along the bottom of their all-time range. In the most recent estimate released jointly by the Censu...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 11:23 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Mon, Sep 26 2011, 10:27 AM
Have you
ever heard of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council? I must
admit that I hadn't, until it released its latest report which...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 8:39 AM
Treasuries are little changed from Friday's levels but the stock market, after losing more than 6% last week, is preparing to rebound in early trading...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 5:03 PM
After two days of significant
improvements, Mortgage
Rates took a measured step back on Friday.
Best-Execution rates rose about an eighth of a ...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 4:26 PM
A few charts for the afternoon... First, we'll take a look at a short term chart of 10yr note yields vs the S&P index. It's fairly common that we se...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 4:23 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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Mon, Sep 26 2011, 3:14 PM
The latest Campbell/Inside Mortgage
Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey , released on Monday, has a pair of
findings that should be distressing ...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 2:55 PM
The New York Fed released it's FAQS (frequently asked questions) on the reinvestment of Agency debt payments into MBS announced in Wednesday's FOMC St...
Fri, Sep 23 2011, 11:50 AM
For the first time in seven quarters the
level of outstanding commercial/multifamily mortgage debt grew in the U.S
according to information releas...
Fri, Sep 23 2011, 11:23 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Fri, Sep 23 2011, 10:24 AM
Hopefully
failing a breathalyzer test doesn't happen to any mortgage bankers tonight
after Happy Hour.
Folks who
are hedging a pipeline, or wh...
Fri, Sep 23 2011, 8:52 AM
Treasuries are little changed this morning following the massive flattening of the yield curve that's taken place since Wednesday's FOMC statement. Eq...
Fri, Sep 23 2011, 4:23 PM
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Fri, Sep 23 2011, 3:57 PM
After two days of significant improvements, Mortgage Rates took a measured
step back today. Best-Execution rates
rose about an eighth of a point...
Thu, Sep 22 2011, 11:45 AM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency's House
Price Index (HPI) for July indicates that seasonally adjusted house prices rose
0.8 percent in July. A...
Thu, Sep 22 2011, 11:20 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Thu, Sep 22 2011, 10:32 AM
Sometimes
things aren't always what they seem. For example, http://www.wimp.com/sweetride/ .
One would
hope that a major US bank is what it seem...
Thu, Sep 22 2011, 8:26 AM
Wednesday's FOMC announcement initiated a sell-off in U.S. equities that rippled across the globe overnight . U.S. equity futures are now responding ...
