Mon, Aug 27 2012, 2:51 PM
Mortgage rates moved gently higher today in most cases, though some lenders were unchanged and in rare cases, slightly improved. There was little b...
Fri, Aug 24 2012, 11:36 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
MBS enjoyed a fairly strong morning, rising to recent highs after a rather uneventful and moderatel...
Fri, Aug 24 2012, 8:27 AM
Another Friday and another opportunity for markets to "trade it out" rather than react to data and headlines. There's next to nothing on tap for th...
Fri, Aug 24 2012, 4:37 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
While the namesake and the focus of our analysis is indeed MBS, we've often noted that 10yr Treasur...
Fri, Aug 24 2012, 3:58 PM
Mortgage Rates rose marginally today after two days of significant improvement. Wednesday and Thursday's strong gains followed the release of the l...
Thu, Aug 23 2012, 11:19 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Essentially, the overnight session and morning trading have validated yesterday's post-FOMC Minutes...
Thu, Aug 23 2012, 7:10 AM
Wednesday's session gave us real reason to hope that the scariest endgame scenarios of the recent sell-off were just the boogie men we hoped they wo...
Thu, Aug 23 2012, 4:20 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Long time readers of the commentary will know that we're not big fans of long term moving averages ...
Thu, Aug 23 2012, 3:34 PM
Mortgage Rates proceeded lower again today, adding on to the already substantial improvements from yesterday. Some of the gains reflect additional ...
Wed, Aug 22 2012, 11:53 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
So bond markets are actually rallying... Yes, this seems like a long-forgotten concept, but a happy ...
Wed, Aug 22 2012, 8:07 AM
In yesterday morning's article, we discussed the recent consolidation of 10yr Treasury yields in the context of "Flag/Pennant" formations ( Read It ...
Wed, Aug 22 2012, 4:23 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Today was the day . It was the day when significant data returned to markets, when the technica...
Wed, Aug 22 2012, 3:58 PM
Mortgage Rates fell sharply today after the Minutes from the latest Fed meeting revealed a strong level of commitment toward additional monetary acc...
Tue, Aug 21 2012, 11:29 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Somewhat disconcerting movement in bond markets this morning... The fact that we opened in weaker te...
Tue, Aug 21 2012, 8:00 AM
The week began with another sideways session for bond markets. Although MBS have outperformed somewhat in the last two session, 10yr yields have gone...
Tue, Aug 21 2012, 4:17 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Things were much weaker and perhaps even a little scarier this morning as bond markets failed to br...
Tue, Aug 21 2012, 3:35 PM
Mortgage Rates moved higher today, falling back in line with Friday's levels, continuing a recent trend of smaller sideways movements around the n...
Mon, Aug 20 2012, 11:20 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
After Starting in weaker territory vs Friday's levels, MBS and Treasuries rallied back into positive ...
Mon, Aug 20 2012, 7:53 AM
If markets weren't so busy trying to convince us that interest rates hit their final iteration of all-time lows in late July, the week ahead would be ...
Mon, Aug 20 2012, 4:24 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
After several weeks without European headlines to sink our teeth into, today's overnight session b...
Mon, Aug 20 2012, 2:12 PM
Mortgage Rates managed to maintain stability seen on Friday, holding steady to very slightly lower today. It was a quiet day for rates markets duri...
Fri, Aug 17 2012, 11:21 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
At the risk of jinxing today's positive momentum, we still felt compelled to let you know that MBS an...
Fri, Aug 17 2012, 7:32 AM
No bones about it, markets have been buying hype. How many times since Greece became an everyday conversation piece in US Financial markets have we s...
Fri, Aug 17 2012, 4:13 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Today was probably the most unequivocally tame and slightly positive day for bond markets of the pas...
Fri, Aug 17 2012, 2:41 PM
Mortgage Rates finally caught a break today as rates held steady to marginally improved after rising rapidly earlier in the week. While this doesn'...
Thu, Aug 16 2012, 11:21 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
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Thu, Aug 16 2012, 8:00 AM
We had hoped to see 1.74% hold up as a supportive ceiling in 10yr yields during yesterday's session, but noted that the next major pivot would be arou...
Thu, Aug 16 2012, 4:22 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
To be sure, MBS made new lows today and scary ones at that. The 102-02 level for Fannie 3.0's was/is a...
Thu, Aug 16 2012, 3:06 PM
Mortgage Rates moved slightly higher again today as the secondary mortgage market experienced one of its most volatile sessions since early June. ...
Wed, Aug 15 2012, 11:46 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Another day, another chance to ratchet to the next higher technical pivot point for Treasury yields a...
Wed, Aug 15 2012, 8:26 AM
Bond markets tried very hard on Tuesday to convince us that "something" is happening. We've been more defensive than usual for over a week now and no...
Wed, Aug 15 2012, 4:10 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Another day in August and another sell-off for bond markets. This one was particularly large, high-vo...
Wed, Aug 15 2012, 3:14 PM
Mortgage Rates made an abrupt move higher today, leaving most lenders at their worst levels since early June. Recent momentum has carried rates in ...
Tue, Aug 14 2012, 11:20 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Mondays and Fridays continued their recent tradition of appallingly low volume (8/6, 8/10, 8/13). Vo...
Tue, Aug 14 2012, 7:50 AM
Monday proved to be every bit as slow as expected in terms of volume but unfortunately also as volatile as such low-volume sessions can be. This isn'...
Tue, Aug 14 2012, 4:21 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Whereas yesterday was one of the lowest volume trading sessions since April, today's was closer to...
Tue, Aug 14 2012, 2:37 PM
Mortgage Rates moved higher today continuing a broader trend of weakness that began in late July. Throughout that trend, the actual interest rates ...
Mon, Aug 13 2012, 11:21 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
MBS began the day in line with Friday's closing levels, just over 103-00 in the "production coupon" F...
Mon, Aug 13 2012, 8:02 AM
The week gets off to a slow start today with essentially nothing on tap for the domestic or European calendars save for a relatively inconsequential r...
Mon, Aug 13 2012, 4:16 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
It's not so much that low volume CAUSED MBS to fall, but rather, it provided an environment in whic...
Mon, Aug 13 2012, 1:38 PM
Mortgage Rates were paradoxically higher today giving some pause to a bounce back from the month's highest rates last week. Although not altogether...
Fri, Aug 10 2012, 11:20 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Bond markets began today's rally yesterday afternoon following the 30yr Bond auction. Whether the bo...
Fri, Aug 10 2012, 8:31 AM
Thursday began in much weaker territory for bond markets as 10yr yields edged into the 1.7's for the first time since early June. Things were at thei...
Fri, Aug 10 2012, 4:12 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Weaker Chinese Trade data overnight helped bond markets continue the bounce back that began after y...
Fri, Aug 10 2012, 2:04 PM
Mortgage Rates moved lower today extending the bounce back in rates markets that began after yesterday's 30yr Bond Auction. There were no significa...
Thu, Aug 9 2012, 11:25 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
The losing streak continues for bond markets as Treasuries showed great determination to move weaker ...
Thu, Aug 9 2012, 8:20 AM
Bond markets continued selling off yesterday and are continuing to sell off so far in the overnight session. We're now into the high 1.6's ahead of t...
Thu, Aug 9 2012, 4:14 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
A relief rally followed today's 30yr Bond Auction despite the auction itself being only average. ...
Thu, Aug 9 2012, 2:50 PM
Mortgage Rates began in higher territory this morning, though some lenders released improved rate sheets in the afternoon. On average, rates are st...
Wed, Aug 8 2012, 11:37 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
MBS opened up a tick or two higher than yesterday's close and proceeded very gently higher into the 1...
