Tue, Oct 11 2011, 4:17 PM
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Tue, Oct 11 2011, 3:19 PM
"The trend is your friend," or "play the range until the range plays you..." Two of the commonly heard phrases during periods like the last 2 months...
Fri, Oct 7 2011, 11:21 AM
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Fri, Oct 7 2011, 8:50 AM
After hitting a 2011 nadir early this week, equities have rebounded for three straight days on hopes that European officials are getting closer to res...
Fri, Oct 7 2011, 4:24 PM
Today's
Employment Situation Report was stronger than expected. It's one of, if not the most significant
pieces of domestic economic data each mont...
Fri, Oct 7 2011, 4:17 PM
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Fri, Oct 7 2011, 1:56 PM
Better than expected Non-Farm-Payrolls number... Fairly sizable sell-off earlier in the day (though possibly stabilizing now)... Given that we menti...
Thu, Oct 6 2011, 11:17 AM
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Thu, Oct 6 2011, 10:02 AM
Things began in pretty ugly fashion this morning. MBS came in the door weaker than yesterday and fell further after the Jobless Claims data. At that...
Thu, Oct 6 2011, 4:45 PM
There's little left to say that hasn't already been said by
way of preparing for tomorrow's jobs report. While it's possible that
tomorrow's NFP su...
Thu, Oct 6 2011, 4:21 PM
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Thu, Oct 6 2011, 4:05 PM
Mortgage Rates
continued higher today, removing 3.875% from Best-Execution status as most
lenders and introducing the possibility of seeing 4.125%...
Thu, Oct 6 2011, 2:24 PM
The weakness in MBS and Treasuries over the past few days has been unpleasant, but at least the charts are suggesting it's been a calculated move. No...
Wed, Oct 5 2011, 12:57 PM
While all that follows could be at moot point tomorrow and beyond, for today at least, parts of the market are leaving the possibility open for MBS to...
Wed, Oct 5 2011, 11:17 AM
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Wed, Oct 5 2011, 10:28 AM
Just like bond markets were struggling after Bernanke's testimony yesterday, but not directly because of the testimony, so too are they struggling tod...
Wed, Oct 5 2011, 9:14 AM
Intermediate and long-term Treasuries are backing off this morning as the stock market continues to climb following a stunning 45-minute rally to end ...
Wed, Oct 5 2011, 4:49 PM
It's been an interesting few days in markets as several huge factors continue to jockeying for position as the most important market-mover. That's cr...
Wed, Oct 5 2011, 4:32 PM
Bond markets were slightly weaker
today and Mortgage Rates edged just
slightly higher, shifting the balance toward 4.0% as the more prevalent
B...
Wed, Oct 5 2011, 4:22 PM
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Tue, Oct 4 2011, 11:19 AM
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Tue, Oct 4 2011, 8:25 AM
Risk aversion pushed the 30-year Treasury to a multi-year high overnight and equities are tumbling hard even after a substantial fall on Monday.
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Tue, Oct 4 2011, 5:16 PM
The answer to the question posed in the headline will turn out to be "not in the slightest." But if you happen to have time for more than once senten...
Tue, Oct 4 2011, 4:55 PM
After improving for several days and
falling in line with all-time lows, Mortgage
Rates took a step back today. Just as most of yesterday's ga...
Tue, Oct 4 2011, 4:19 PM
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Mon, Oct 3 2011, 11:24 AM
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Mon, Oct 3 2011, 11:08 AM
It's off to the races so far this morning as MBS and longer-maturity Treasuries are rallying significantly. Some of the later days in September had b...
Mon, Oct 3 2011, 9:29 AM
With the worst quarter for stocks since 2008 now behind, global investors are hoping and praying for the return of stability and growth. But fears of ...
Mon, Oct 3 2011, 5:06 PM
A familiar scenario played out overnight and through the trading session. It goes like this: new information comes to light about the potential for a...
Mon, Oct 3 2011, 4:19 PM
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Mon, Oct 3 2011, 4:04 PM
Bond
markets rallied heavily today and Mortgage Rates
continued to improve. Most of the gains were seen in the form of lower
borrowing costs t...
Mon, Oct 3 2011, 1:16 PM
A few updated versions of the charts I posted earlier today. S&P's continue to fall, and 10yr year yields are following along with a high degree of c...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 11:24 AM
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Fri, Sep 30 2011, 9:00 AM
The final day of the third quarter is off to a weak start as cash flows out of equity markets to send already-low Treasury rates even lower. The culpr...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 4:54 PM
Mortgage Rates
continued to improve today, adding on to yesterday's already impressive gains. Best-Ex moved solidly down to lower of the
two rate...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 4:24 PM
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Fri, Sep 30 2011, 3:30 PM
In yesterday's commentary, we noted that the stock lever has been well-connected and that the same could be true of today. As you'll see in the chart...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 2:24 PM
The passion Adam Quinones has for improving the entire
landscape of housing finance is undeniable. I've never met anyone who has
cared more about w...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 11:24 AM
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Thu, Sep 29 2011, 8:22 AM
The Treasury market is taking a breather and equity futures are pointing higher following a last hour sell-off Wednesday that pushed indexes down roug...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 4:51 PM
For the 2nd day in a row, MBS made progress in bouncing supportively off what had once been incredibly firm resistance. We speak of course of the "co...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 4:24 PM
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Thu, Sep 29 2011, 3:55 PM
After leveling-off yesterday Mortgage Rates saw some solid improvements
today, in many cases dropping Best-Execution rates by an eighth of a poin...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 11:19 AM
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Wed, Sep 28 2011, 8:53 AM
Global markets are mixed as European officials quarrel over the terms of Greece's bailout package, but the U.S. market looks to another day of equity ...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 5:30 PM
From MBSonMND : "Things have no doubt been volatile this week. We continue to hear and see that this has more to do with month and quarter-end positi...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 4:42 PM
After several days of progressively
worse Mortgage Rates , things turned around a bit
today. Or rather, it might be better to
say that things ...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 4:19 PM
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Tue, Sep 27 2011, 11:19 AM
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Tue, Sep 27 2011, 8:40 AM
Global equity markets continue to rally Tuesday as investors bet on Europe finding a solution for its various debt problems.
The Treasury market is...