Tue, Mar 8 2011, 12:01 PM
Last week the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing
and Community Opportunity voted to eliminate two programs designed to mitig...
Tue, Mar 8 2011, 11:45 AM
Last
month the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued an Administrative Notice
(AN) shifting a portion of the upfront fee it charges for the S...
Tue, Mar 8 2011, 11:16 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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FNMA 3.5
93-26 : -0-05
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Tue, Mar 8 2011, 10:46 AM
(9:40am) The bond market continues to battle the weakness mentioned previously as
being connected to oil movements. Support could be coming in arou...
Tue, Mar 8 2011, 9:58 AM
This is
kind of exciting: a new website. It was created by home builder Lennar, showing
how/why buying a new home is better than buying a foreclosur...
Tue, Mar 8 2011, 8:39 AM
Stocks and bonds continue to march to the beat of an oil drum. HA I crack myself up.....oil prices did dictate the directionality of stocks and bonds ...
Tue, Mar 8 2011, 4:54 PM
Fence-sitters today got their first taste of a series of moderately
risky events that face mortgage rates in the days ahead, Treasury
auctions!
...
Tue, Mar 8 2011, 4:16 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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Tue, Mar 8 2011, 3:56 PM
March Fannie and Freddie 30 year fixed MBS coupon have begun the
settlement process and it will soon look like MBS prices just plummeted (more than ...
Tue, Mar 8 2011, 1:52 PM
Treasury just sold $32 billion 3-year notes.
The bid to cover ratio, a measure of auction demand, was 3.22 bids
submitted for every 1 accept...
Mon, Mar 7 2011, 12:41 PM
According to the Wall Street Journal , the 50-state alliance of attorney generals who
are working with federal agencies to investigate and reform ...
Mon, Mar 7 2011, 12:13 PM
Even as the Department of Housing and Urban Development was
publishing an announcement of the program's regulations in the Federal
Register , the...
Mon, Mar 7 2011, 12:04 PM
The Congressional Oversight Panel assessing the impact of
the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) on financial stability is currently holding its
l...
Mon, Mar 7 2011, 11:38 AM
Late in 2010, mortgage bankers
seemed to be scrambling for warehouse lines. Now that things have quieted down
need-wise, how is the warehouse biz do...
Mon, Mar 7 2011, 11:16 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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FNMA 3.5
94-05 : -0-02
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Mon, Mar 7 2011, 11:15 AM
In
speaking to various groups, one question that always comes up is whether or
not 30-yr mortgages are going away . After all, most other countries...
Mon, Mar 7 2011, 10:47 AM
Oil prices are up. Stock indexes are up. Treasury yields are up. MBS prices are not...
OVERNIGHT NEWS...
Fed Unlikely to Remove Its Economic...
Mon, Mar 7 2011, 9:25 AM
The economic data calendar thins out a bit but market watchers still
have plenty of news and events to absorb in the days ahead. MND expects
inves...
Mon, Mar 7 2011, 4:18 PM
CURRENT MARKET : The "Best Execution" conventional 30 year
fixed mortgage rate is 4.875%. For
those looking to buy down their rate to 4.75%, this q...
Mon, Mar 7 2011, 4:16 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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FNMA 3.5
93-30 : -0-10
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Mon, Mar 7 2011, 2:06 PM
A comment from the MBSonMND Dashboard :
(3/7/11 -- 1:17pm): FNCL 4.5's aren't merely holding near some of the highest prices in a
month--102-...
Fri, Mar 4 2011, 11:46 AM
Last
week Fannie Mae announced the Servicer Total Achievement and Rewards Program or
"STAR" which is intended to measure and evaluate the perfor...
Fri, Mar 4 2011, 11:10 AM
My computer is back up and
operational. It turns out that running two virus security systems
simultaneously pretty much shuts down your computer - I...
Fri, Mar 4 2011, 10:01 AM
Plain and Simple: When viewed on the spot, this was a strong
monthly jobs report. The headline NFP print was close to consensus. The
unemploymen...
Fri, Mar 4 2011, 8:17 AM
Interest rates moved mostly sideways in light overnight trading
volumes. The same thing goes for stocks, totally sideways in a quiet
marketplace....
Fri, Mar 4 2011, 6:00 PM
It was a volatile week for mortgage rates.
Monday and Tuesday saw
rates near their best levels in nearly a month. Consumer borrowing
costs the...
Fri, Mar 4 2011, 4:16 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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FNMA 3.5
94-09 : +0-22
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Fri, Mar 4 2011, 2:17 PM
After some harrying high volatility moments in the immediate wake of
the Employment Situation Report, benchmark 10's have dug in at their
best lev...
Fri, Mar 4 2011, 2:16 PM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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FNMA 3.5
94-03 : +0-16
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Thu, Mar 3 2011, 12:37 PM
Where to begin where to begin.... The obvious observation is
interest rates are higher today. The directional move began yesterday
after the Bei...
Thu, Mar 3 2011, 11:16 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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FNMA 3.5
93-22 : -0-12
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Thu, Mar 3 2011, 10:12 AM
The
Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Treasury released their Monthly
Housing Scorecard for February on Wednesday afternoon...
Thu, Mar 3 2011, 8:29 AM
Interest rates have yet to recover from the
sell-off that played out following the release of the Fed's Beige Book
yesterday afternoon. Stocks on ...
Thu, Mar 3 2011, 5:41 PM
The bond market has effectively been rallying since the 10th of
February. There are two ways to look at that rally, as either
CORRECTIVELY BEARISH...
Thu, Mar 3 2011, 5:28 PM
The Best Execution conventional 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose today.
UPDATED CURRENT MARKET :
The "Best Execution" conventional 30-y...
Thu, Mar 3 2011, 4:16 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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FNMA 3.5
93-18 : -0-17
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Thu, Mar 3 2011, 4:10 PM
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" - Milton Friedman Milton
Friedman's statement theorizes that the source of all inflatio...
Thu, Mar 3 2011, 2:10 PM
On days like today directional debates run rampant over "what's
happening" and "what's going to happen" in the bond market. AQ saved me quite a
b...
Wed, Mar 2 2011, 11:44 AM
Merrill Lynch/BofA's analysts
took a look at HARP, and whether or not it should be extended. The FHFA
has a number of choices regarding HARP. "We se...
Wed, Mar 2 2011, 11:19 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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FNMA 3.5
94-13 : -0-04
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Wed, Mar 2 2011, 10:40 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today
released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week
ending February 25, 2011. The results...
Wed, Mar 2 2011, 10:03 AM
In his prepared remarks on the Dapartment of Housing and Urban Development's fiscal year 2012 budget, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan
yesterday tol...
Wed, Mar 2 2011, 8:12 AM
Production MBS coupons and benchmark Treasuries benefited from a
continued flight to safety yesterday. Sparked by short covering in the
interest r...
Wed, Mar 2 2011, 5:23 PM
It was another volatile day in the mortgage market. Don't let that
distort your perspective of reality though. When looking at the behavior
of mo...
Wed, Mar 2 2011, 4:20 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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FNMA 3.5
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Wed, Mar 2 2011, 3:19 PM
Following the 2pm release of the Fed's Beige Book, bonds are weaker
and stocks are near their highs of the day, which really isn't all that
high. ...
Wed, Mar 2 2011, 2:47 PM
The
Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced $50 million in
capacity building grants to three national groups that support
affor...
Tue, Mar 1 2011, 12:59 PM
From yesterday's 5pm going out marks at 101-29, FNCL 4.5's fell as low as 101-18
this morning. But after two decent showings of support, theyv'e gai...
Tue, Mar 1 2011, 12:49 PM
The Census Bureau and Commerce Department have released Construction Spending data for January 2011.
Residential construction spending in...
Tue, Mar 1 2011, 11:19 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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FNMA 3.5
94-07 : -0-09
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