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Mortgage rates were distinctly mixed today, with some lenders clearly moving higher while others were effectively unchanged. The deciding factor is both simple and obvious. It has to do with Friday's wild action in the bond market (following the Flynn/Russia news in the morning). That market movement resulted in a handful of lenders reissuing lower rates on Friday afternoon. Those lenders had to move rates back up today because underlying bond markets weren't able to maintain the improvements that resulted in the better rate sheets. Lenders who didn't adjust rates on Friday ended up being in fairly ideal territory for today's bond trading range and thus didn't need to make noticeable adjustments. As for the forces underlying the pull-back in bonds, the Senate's passage of its tax bill likely
Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates were distinctly mixed today, with some lenders clearly moving higher while others were effectively unchanged. The deciding factor is both simple and obvious. It has to do with Friday's wild action in the bond market (following the Flyn... (read more)
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Housing News
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Black Knight, (which has just rebranded itself, dropping "Financial Services from its name), has released an especially meaty Mortgage Monitor for December. Of particular interest following the weekend in which the Senate passed its tax reduction bil... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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Lenders in the Courts In yet again another lesson about not putting all your retirement money in one basket (think WAMU, Countrywide, Nat City...), Walter Investment Management Corp. filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan designed to reduce its corporate... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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As expected, the Senate passed its version of the tax bill on Friday evening (the passage being the expected part, not the timing). Also as expected, bond markets had some extra selling to do based on the confirmation. Counting up the p... (read more)
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates were at their highest levels in roughly 1 month as of yesterday afternoon. That ran counter to many of the mortgage rate news stories that came out throughout the day due to said stories using Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Surv... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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After a day of diffuse inspiration from several competing market movers yesterday, we ended up with far more focus today. That wasn't readily apparent at first, because it took some time for today's superstar to arrive. Once it did, it wa... (read more)
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consumerfinancemonitor.com
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