Tue, Dec 20 2011, 4:22 PM
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Tue, Dec 20 2011, 3:03 PM
Late November definitely felt like more of a sell-off than today, but in terms of single session 8am-3pm losses, 10yr yields rose the most since Octob...
Tue, Dec 20 2011, 2:35 PM
After several days at record lows with little deviation in borrowing costs, Mortgage Rates worsened somewhat today. The weakness, however, does not...
Mon, Dec 19 2011, 12:53 PM
While the full Mortgage Monitor report won't
be available until January, Lender Processing Services has released some
highlights for its November mo...
Mon, Dec 19 2011, 11:26 AM
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi is currently testifying before the Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee in European Parliament. The ...
Mon, Dec 19 2011, 11:17 AM
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Mon, Dec 19 2011, 11:04 AM
Another shoe dropped last week as the Nevada attorney general brought suit
against Lender Processing Services , DOCX, LPS Default Solutions and othe...
Mon, Dec 19 2011, 10:59 AM
If you
have a few seconds, go to Google and do a search on "Let it snow."
There's even a "defrost" button.
I am sure that many originators wish...
Mon, Dec 19 2011, 10:03 AM
Homebuilders are more optimistic than they've been about single-family home sales in a year and a half according to a report released today by the Na...
Mon, Dec 19 2011, 8:48 AM
There was little to move markets overnight, including the much-discussed death of Kim Jong-Il. While this amounted to more than a blip on Korea's Kos...
Mon, Dec 19 2011, 4:17 PM
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Mon, Dec 19 2011, 2:45 PM
Mortgage Rates remain at record lows, both in terms of the Best-Execution interest rate as well as the costs involved in obtaining that rate. Althou...
Fri, Dec 16 2011, 12:15 PM
The latest alert on the MBS Live Dashboard at 11:15am works just as well about an hour later to explain current goings on:
Dealers Set Em Up, Fe...
Fri, Dec 16 2011, 12:12 PM
Six
former top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were charged with securities
fraud Friday morning in connection with mortgage backed s...
Fri, Dec 16 2011, 11:21 AM
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Fri, Dec 16 2011, 10:17 AM
Since
bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round? And why should VA loan limits
be any different than other government agency loan limits? The...
Fri, Dec 16 2011, 8:51 AM
Bond markets opened slightly weaker on uneventful overnight session. Last night was perhaps the least dramatic of the week in terms of the European h...
Fri, Dec 16 2011, 4:21 PM
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Fri, Dec 16 2011, 3:26 PM
Mortgage Rates
experienced another record setting day. While the 3.875% Best-Execution rate remains unchanged on average, the costs involved to ob...
Thu, Dec 15 2011, 10:02 AM
Christmas
Day is only ten days away, and thrill-seeking mortgage bankers and Realtors
everywhere are wondering what they'll find under their tree. H...
Thu, Dec 15 2011, 9:51 AM
Foreclosure activity continued to
decline in November and is now down 14 percent from one year ago when one in
every 492 U.S. housing units was t...
Thu, Dec 15 2011, 8:58 AM
After the massive glut of domestic economic data this morning, MBS and Treasuries are understandably under some selling pressure, but have been holdin...
Thu, Dec 15 2011, 4:21 PM
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Thu, Dec 15 2011, 3:41 PM
Despite a busy morning of economic data, Mortgage Rates
are essentially unchanged from yesterday's levels, leaving the all-time-low 3.875% Best-Ex...
Thu, Dec 15 2011, 2:21 PM
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Thu, Dec 15 2011, 1:13 PM
After the last of this morning's economic data hit, we'd basically seen all there is to see this week. With tomorrow being a Quadruple Witching day, ...
Thu, Dec 15 2011, 1:10 PM
Nearly half of Fannie Mae's eligible servicers
are on track to receive at least a three STAR rating for 2011. Fannie
Mae announced third quarter r...
Wed, Dec 14 2011, 11:21 AM
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Wed, Dec 14 2011, 10:51 AM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) will
hold a press conference next week to announce revisions to its data on sales of
previously owned U...
Wed, Dec 14 2011, 10:50 AM
Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) told the Interagency Council on Homelessness on Tuesday
that homelessness in the cou...
Wed, Dec 14 2011, 10:44 AM
A pig and
a chicken are walking down a road. The chicken looks at the pig and says
"Hey, why don't we open a restaurant?" The pig looks back at the
...
Wed, Dec 14 2011, 9:45 AM
Buoyed
by a surge in refinancing , the Market Composite Index issued weekly by the
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) increased by 4.1 percent on a...
Wed, Dec 14 2011, 8:36 AM
After an extremely quiet overnight session, domestic bond markets are beginning the day in generally the same territory as yesterday's close. Fannie 3...
Wed, Dec 14 2011, 4:21 PM
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Wed, Dec 14 2011, 3:59 PM
Another strong Treasury auction, among other things, helped Mortgage Rates
in lower again today. Although Best-Execution rates still haven't move...
Wed, Dec 14 2011, 3:20 PM
At the beginning of the week, and even during the morning hours yesterday, prices of Fannie 3.5's (dominant production coupon for conforming 30yr loan...
Tue, Dec 13 2011, 11:33 AM
10yr yields have experienced only a slight benefit from earlier news that German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the notion of raising the upper lim...
Tue, Dec 13 2011, 11:21 AM
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Tue, Dec 13 2011, 10:55 AM
For you
folks who are clock-watchers as the day winds down: http://lovedbdb.com/nudemenClock/index2.html .
(It makes one think that some software d...
Tue, Dec 13 2011, 10:14 AM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ) has reacted
on two fronts to a recent move by The City of Chicago to enforce parts of its
housing cod...
Tue, Dec 13 2011, 8:46 AM
This morning's release of November Retail Sales (advance/estimate report) failed to inspire any directional shifts in markets despite the coming in 0....
Tue, Dec 13 2011, 4:16 PM
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Tue, Dec 13 2011, 4:03 PM
A strong Treasury auction and an uneventful policy statement from the Federal Reserve paved the way for Mortgage Rates
to improve to their best le...
Tue, Dec 13 2011, 3:10 PM
Today's impressive 10yr Treasury Note Auction was the key component in a rally that has taken 10yr yields from one side of their recent range to the o...
Mon, Dec 12 2011, 11:16 AM
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Mon, Dec 12 2011, 10:21 AM
It's a full blown sell-a- thon in stock markets at the moment with S&P's having now charged straight through Friday's lows now down around 25 point...
Mon, Dec 12 2011, 10:00 AM
Any time I
see "Jodie Foster," "housing scheme," "estranged father
"and, "cargo containers" in one sentence, I scramble for the latest edition of
P...
Mon, Dec 12 2011, 8:39 AM
Just as light volume exaggerated the bond market losses on Friday afternoon, it helped things bounce back a bit this morning. But even without the "h...
Mon, Dec 12 2011, 4:16 PM
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Mon, Dec 12 2011, 3:27 PM
The most recent alert from MBS Live:
Slight Chance of Negative Reprices as MBS hit Lows 3:43PM
This is one of those alerts where we wouldn't b...
