I'll be the first to tell you that bond yields don't always follow stocks.  Indeed, explicating their complicated relationship was the whole point of yesterday morning's commentary.  With yesterday being a big day for earnings and a more liquid day for markets, bonds were more keen to follow stocks lower.  But that relationship has changed today, as 10yr yields haven't been keen on breaking much below 2.26, even as S&P futures are off 20 points from morning highs.

New Home Sales data was out much weaker than expected, and it had little effect on either side of the market.  Arguably of more interest to the equities complex was a WSJ story that presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton would propose 'nearly doubling capital gains tax rates on short-term investments.'

In other news that seemed like it was news, the Fed put out a press release stating that it had inadvertently published internal staff forecasts 5 years early.  This is material used as background during the Fed meetings, and it's normally released after the 5 year embargo that applies to the transcripts from those meetings.  Instead, it was accidentally included in data at the end of June.  It should tell you all you need to know that it's July 24th now and this is the first we're hearing of this data.  This was a housekeeping issue for the Fed, nothing more.  Even if someone wants to argue that it matters, charts are flat.  So markets obviously didn't care.


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
100-01 : +0-02
FNMA 3.5
103-10 : +0-00
FNMA 4.0
106-03 : -0-01
Treasuries
2 YR
0.6820 : -0.0160
10 YR
2.2610 : -0.0080
30 YR
2.9570 : -0.0120
Pricing as of 7/24/15 1:15PMEST

Morning Reprice Alerts and Updates
A recap of Alerts and Updates provided to MBS Live subscribers.
10:31AM  :  Quick Move Gives us Levels to Watch for Potential Reprice Risk
9:58AM  :  Typical Summertime Friday at First; Now Losing Some Ground

Live Chat Featured Comments
A recap of featured comments from the Live Discussion on the MBS Live Dashboard.
Matt Hodges  :  "The economist from Redfin pointed out salient reasons why buyers have slowed. it's worth a watch of that CNBC piece in news stream"
Sung Kim  :  "Very geo dependent "
Matthew Graham  :  "Redfin report was good. I'm definitely seeing stuff stay on the market longer and with more price drops here. But it's VERY dependent on geography. 15 miles east, and it's still on fire from what I understand. "
Matt Hodges  :  "My june purchase traffic was non-existent. fortunately, Dec - May was strong"
John Tassios  :  "RedFin reported 2 days ago that june traffic had fallen."
Victor Burek  :  "wow, very disappointing"
Matthew Graham  :  "RTRS- US JUNE NEW HOME SUPPLY 5.4 MONTHS' WORTH AT CURRENT PACE VS MAY 4.8 MONTHS"
Matthew Graham  :  "RTRS- US JUNE HOME SALES NORTHEAST +28.0 PCT, MIDWEST -11.1 PCT, SOUTH -4.1 PCT, WEST -17.0 PCT"
Matthew Graham  :  "RTRS- US JUNE SINGLE-FAMILY HOME SALES -6.8 PCT VS MAY -1.1 PCT (PREV +2.2 PCT)"
Matthew Graham  :  "RTRS- US JUNE SINGLE-FAMILY HOME SALES 0.482 MLN UNIT ANN. RATE (CONS. 0.546 MLN) VS MAY 0.517 MLN UNIT RATE (PREV 0.546 MLN)"