Fri, Sep 2 2011, 12:06 PM
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basis, and I cannot respond to e-mails until September 11th. In my place are
daily commentaries from a serie...
Fri, Sep 2 2011, 11:22 AM
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Fri, Sep 2 2011, 11:12 AM
Mortgage
Rates improved slightly yesterday as we awaited this morning's high risk
event, the monthly Employment Situation Report.
That report sh...
Fri, Sep 2 2011, 10:29 AM
After this morning's economically weak Employment Situation Report, 10yr yields broke out of a consolidating pattern of lower highs and higher lows. ...
Fri, Sep 2 2011, 8:34 AM
Prepare for a rough day in the markets.
Not only is the monthly employment report hitting the wires at 8:30, but the New York Times reported the FH...
Fri, Sep 2 2011, 4:18 PM
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Fri, Sep 2 2011, 1:15 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ), conservator
for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the Enterprises) said on Thursday that, while
modifications...
Thu, Sep 1 2011, 11:17 AM
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Thu, Sep 1 2011, 8:20 AM
A weak European session has September starting off in the wrong direction. Equities are falling ahead of the 10am ISM Manufacturing Index, which is pr...
Thu, Sep 1 2011, 5:54 PM
After a scary morning threatened to send Mortgage
Rates even higher, things turned around in the Secondary Mortgage
Market. Although there wasn't...
Thu, Sep 1 2011, 4:22 PM
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Thu, Sep 1 2011, 3:30 PM
The Departments of Treasury and Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
released the August edition of their Housing Scorecard on Friday which painted
...
Thu, Sep 1 2011, 1:13 PM
The Senate subcommittee on Capital
Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises will hold a hearing next Wednesday
at 10 a.m. to examine ways in whi...
Wed, Aug 31 2011, 11:58 AM
The Federal Reserve's most recent Senior
Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices noted that the demand for
some types of residential ...
Wed, Aug 31 2011, 11:21 AM
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Wed, Aug 31 2011, 9:44 AM
A
decline in refinancing pushed the volume of mortgage applications lower during
the week ended August 26 according to the Mortgage Bankers Associat...
Wed, Aug 31 2011, 9:12 AM
Mortgage
banking and real estate are typically not physically hazardous professions. In
case you're ever tempted to throw down your pen & pencil and...
Wed, Aug 31 2011, 8:24 AM
One of the most volatile months in the history of the bond and equity markets looks to end softly.
Treasuries are steady from Tuesday's closing yie...
Wed, Aug 31 2011, 7:21 PM
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Wed, Aug 31 2011, 4:45 PM
As folks returned from holidays overseas and got their power turned back on
after Irene, participation picked up in the markets and Mortgage
Rate...
Wed, Aug 31 2011, 3:08 PM
Very much a burning question this afternoon, but there are no profoundly alarming answers. Some are short term and ethereal, dealing with things like...
Tue, Aug 30 2011, 11:16 AM
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Tue, Aug 30 2011, 10:44 AM
Realtors
and mortgage professionals know that divorce
can often lead to the formation of a new household. According to the Census
Bureau, the nat...
Tue, Aug 30 2011, 8:34 AM
Treasuries are rebounding from Monday's losses and the equity rally looks a bit overdone, at least until investors have a chance to look at this morni...
Tue, Aug 30 2011, 4:34 PM
We spoke of yesterday
as "the first time in a long time that a short term float strategy seems to
make any sort of sense" saying that "due to
the...
Tue, Aug 30 2011, 4:21 PM
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Tue, Aug 30 2011, 3:10 PM
Home prices pulled, at least temporarily, out of their
downward spiral according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI)
released on Tue...
Mon, Aug 29 2011, 11:16 AM
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Mon, Aug 29 2011, 11:01 AM
After posting two strong consecutive months, pending home sales fell in July
according to information released Monday by the National Association o...
Mon, Aug 29 2011, 10:32 AM
An IT
person is someone who understands this joke: "The definition of 'Installation
routine': A process employed by many applications to overwrite a...
Mon, Aug 29 2011, 8:54 AM
Lots of important data on the calendar will inform the direction of this week's financial markets.
The highlight is Friday's employment report for...
Mon, Aug 29 2011, 4:18 PM
After a brief but sizeable rebound on Friday, Mortgage Rates experienced an
equally sizeable rebound back higher, though we hope it will be equally...
Mon, Aug 29 2011, 4:16 PM
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Mon, Aug 29 2011, 2:31 PM
The Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry
( NMLS ) has released information on licensed entities as of the first quarter of
2011(March 3...
Fri, Aug 26 2011, 11:16 AM
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Fri, Aug 26 2011, 10:50 AM
Don't you
always wonder how much the guys standing at the stoplights take home, tax-free?
It is a little farcical, but: HowMuchTaxFree?
A doc...
Fri, Aug 26 2011, 8:22 AM
Today's the day traders have been waiting for all week: Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke speaks at the annual Economic Symposium at Jackson H...
Fri, Aug 26 2011, 5:13 PM
After setting new lows last Thursday, mortgage rates drifted higher this week...that is until today when consumer borrowing costs improved sharply. T...
Fri, Aug 26 2011, 4:16 PM
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Thu, Aug 25 2011, 11:16 AM
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Thu, Aug 25 2011, 10:56 AM
Warren
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, who owns about 10% of Wells Fargo, announced that
it is investing $5 billion in Bank of America. $100,000 per s...
Thu, Aug 25 2011, 10:10 AM
RealtyTrac,
the Irvine California firm that reports on all things foreclosure said on
Thursday that, while sales of bank-owned real estate and homes...
Thu, Aug 25 2011, 8:28 AM
Treasuries are firmer in early trading Thursday while U.S. equity futures are mixed after three straight sessions of gains this week.
The two-year ...
Thu, Aug 25 2011, 4:22 PM
Yesterday, a recent losing streak for loan pricing boiled over and Mortgage
Rates rose across the board. Today offered a slight reprieve to yes...
Thu, Aug 25 2011, 4:16 PM
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Wed, Aug 24 2011, 11:33 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has released its Weekly Mortgage Applications
Survey for the week ending August 19, 2011.
With purchase mo...
Wed, Aug 24 2011, 11:15 AM
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Wed, Aug 24 2011, 10:09 AM
Fannie,
Freddie, and the US Government aren't the only entities struggling with debt. The
U.S. Post Office is expected to hit its $15 billion borro...
Wed, Aug 24 2011, 8:28 AM
A weak session in Asia following Moody's one-notch downgrade of Japan's credit rating to Aa3 has markets looking cautious ahead of Friday's speech fro...
Wed, Aug 24 2011, 4:34 PM
Yesterday, we noted pressure building on BestExecution rates. Today, things boiled over unfavorably and the loan pricing losing streak extended int...
