It's been a surprisingly busy morning for financial markets, and very little of that has to do with NFP.  Bonds were slightly stronger overnight and after a small, but volatile reaction to NFP managed to hold inside yesterday's weaker levels.  In other words, 10yr yields ultimately lost ground following NFP, but didn't go any higher than yesterday's 2.02+ technical support. 

Further support came from slumping stocks and friendly Fed speakers in the 10am hour.  Around the same time, an updated Greek election poll showed the party favoring a Eurozone exit still in the lead.  As long as that continues to be the case, markets view the ECB as more resitricted in terms of the QE package they might announce (because Greek elections are on the 25th and the ECB announces on the 22nd).  Bottom line there is that  this dampens QE prospects and causes more concern over the global growth picture.

In the following hour, the hostage stand-off in France added more fuel to the market's "risk-off" momentum (risk-off = selling stocks, buying bonds, etc).

As is frequently the case, much of the positive momentum today was a factor of European markets.  Naturally then, as European markets closed, US bond markets stopped making gains.  Surprise surprise.  MBS and Treasuries have been drifting sideways to slightly higher since then, but are nowhere near revisiting this morning's weaker levels.


MBS Pricing Snapshot
Pricing shown below is delayed, please note the timestamp at the bottom. Real time pricing is available via MBS Live.
MBS
FNMA 3.0
102-13 : +0-11
FNMA 3.5
105-04 : +0-08
FNMA 4.0
107-03 : +0-05
Treasuries
2 YR
0.5610 : -0.0480
10 YR
1.9620 : -0.0560
30 YR
2.5590 : -0.0400
Pricing as of 1/9/15 1:25PMEST

Morning Reprice Alerts and Updates
A recap of Alerts and Updates provided to MBS Live subscribers.
10:55AM  :  Quick, Seemingly Inexplicable Rally in Bonds; Here's Why:
8:57AM  :  Bond Markets Slightly Stronger Overnight; Mixed NFP Reaction

Live Chat Featured Comments
A recap of featured comments from the Live Discussion on the MBS Live Dashboard.
Jason York  :  "I first took that as 30 days going forward, so any case numbers already pulled and not closed, or case numbers pulled within the next 30 days could be cancelled"
Matt Hodges  :  "i could interpret that statement at least three different ways"
Matt Hodges  :  ""approve cancellation requests for active FHA Case Numbers within 30 days of the effective date of this ML." Please hire an English major to write your ML....please"
Victor Burek  :  "so within 30 days...is that from today backward? and what if you pull case number on Monday...can you cancel that and get the lower MIP"
Matthew Graham  :  "indeed. Now how about those who have recently refi'd and are in their 210 day window?"
Matt Hodges  :  "who woulda thunk FHA would do this properly"
Ira Selwin  :  "To allow mortgagees to obtain the reduced annual MIP rates contained in this ML for loans in process with active FHA Case Numbers, FHA will temporarily approve cancellation requests for active FHA Case Numbers within 30 days of the effective date of this ML"
Ira Selwin  :  "even better:"
Victor Burek  :  "that's gonna delay purchases...and have a domino effect"
Victor Burek  :  "so hold off on case numbers til 1/26"
Ira Selwin  :  "This ML is effective for case numbers assigned on or after January 26, 2015."
Ira Selwin  :  "http://mndne.ws/14CE7xJ"
Matthew Graham  :  "RTRS - EVANS: IN FAVOR OF BEING PATIENT ON RAISING U.S. INTEREST RATES"
Matthew Graham  :  "RTRS- FED'S EVANS: U.S. JOB GROWTH HAS BEEN VERY GOOD FOR QUITE A LONG TIME NOW -CNBC INTERVIEW"
Matthew Graham  :  "RTRS - U.S. DEC AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS ALL PRIVATE WORKERS -0.2 PCT (CONS +0.2 PCT) VS NOV +0.2 PCT (PREV +0.4 PCT) TO $24.57 VS NOV $24.62; DEC YEAR-ON-YEAR EARNINGS +1.7 PCT"
John Tassios  :  "earnings negative, not good"
Victor Burek  :  "all about earnings"
Oliver Orlicki  :  "big revisions upward"
Matthew Graham  :  "RTRS - U.S. DEC LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATE 62.7 PCT, LOWEST SINCE SEPT 2008, VS NOV 62.9 PCT (PREV 62.8 PCT)"
Matthew Graham  :  "RTRS- U.S. DEC JOBLESS RATE 5.6 PCT, LOWEST SINCE JUNE 2008 (CONSENSUS 5.7 PCT) VS NOV 5.8 PCT (PREV 5.8 PCT)"
Matthew Graham  :  "RTRS- U.S. DEC NONFARM PAYROLLS +252,000 (CONSENSUS +240,000) VS NOV +353,000 (PREV +321,000), OCT +261,000 (PREV +243,000)"