Wed, Dec 28 2011, 12:12 PM
The cliche quip "It's the economy, stupid" is under consideration to be revised to "it's the European economy, stupid," or perhaps even "it's the stup...
Wed, Dec 28 2011, 11:23 AM
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Wed, Dec 28 2011, 8:26 AM
One day in to the post Christmas/ Pre -New-Year holiday week and it's shaping up to be the slowest in years. Not only is that slowness seen in terms ...
Wed, Dec 28 2011, 4:23 PM
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Wed, Dec 28 2011, 2:40 PM
Unlike yesterday's uneventful market movements, Mortgage Rates
are noticeably improved today. While volume remains quite light in general due to a...
Tue, Dec 27 2011, 11:18 AM
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Tue, Dec 27 2011, 8:24 AM
Last week saw a steep sell-off in bond markets as low volume and a limited amount of participation paved the way for domination by whichever side of t...
Tue, Dec 27 2011, 4:23 PM
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Tue, Dec 27 2011, 2:23 PM
After getting pushed higher in low volume trading late last week, Mortgage Rates
are roughly unchanged today, although market volume remains exceed...
Tue, Dec 27 2011, 1:09 PM
Over the weeks and months of 2011, MBS and Treasuries have had their attention pulled in many different directions, at times paying careful attention ...
Fri, Dec 23 2011, 12:52 PM
Based simply on trading levels, today is pretty ugly. But in light of the extremely low volume, we were already largely prepared to discount such swi...
Fri, Dec 23 2011, 11:18 AM
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Fri, Dec 23 2011, 8:19 AM
Although there's a decent enough lineup of economic reports this morning, including New Home Sales, Durable Goods, and Personal Consumption Expenditur...
Fri, Dec 23 2011, 4:18 PM
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Fri, Dec 23 2011, 1:22 PM
Mortgage Rates
suffered their worst losses of the week today as light volume and low participation left sellers in control, driving benchmark intere...
Thu, Dec 22 2011, 12:02 PM
Despite the glut of economic data this morning, there was little, if any reaction to several reports at 830 or the remaining group at 9:55-10AM. The ...
Thu, Dec 22 2011, 11:18 AM
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Thu, Dec 22 2011, 8:22 AM
Volume in the overnight session was some of the lowest of the year. Trading was uninspired by any meaningful headline or event. Year-end is officially...
Thu, Dec 22 2011, 4:18 PM
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Thu, Dec 22 2011, 2:14 PM
Mortgage Rates are slightly improved today after minor increases to borrowing costs over the past two days. Before that, rates spent several days at...
Wed, Dec 21 2011, 11:42 AM
Even though stocks and the Euro are trading lower, bond markets have been stubborn this morning in maintaining slightly weaker levels. MBS are about ...
Wed, Dec 21 2011, 11:22 AM
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Wed, Dec 21 2011, 8:36 AM
The ECB's LTRO (Long Term Refinancing Operation) dominated the overnight session. But as it turns out, it's effects on domestic yields were mostly see...
Wed, Dec 21 2011, 4:18 PM
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Wed, Dec 21 2011, 2:24 PM
Here are the earlier alerts that MBS Live subscribers received:
Before the Auction:
7yr Notes have averaged a 2.89 bid-to-cover and saw a...
Wed, Dec 21 2011, 1:43 PM
After several days at record lows with little deviation in borrowing costs, Mortgage Rates have now moved slightly higher on two consecutive days. T...
Tue, Dec 20 2011, 11:22 AM
Bond markets continue to weaken as European peripheral markets are generally more upbeat after receiving their promised holiday gift in the form of th...
Tue, Dec 20 2011, 11:17 AM
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Tue, Dec 20 2011, 8:29 AM
Bond markets are slightly weaker overnight following a fairly uneventful European session. 10yr yields rose roughly 5bps to 1.85 and S&P futures adde...
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, 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, 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, 11:21 AM
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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, 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, ...
Wed, Dec 14 2011, 11:21 AM
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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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