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CoreLogic says mortgage delinquencies in January were the lowest for that month in 20 years . Meanwhile, in a separate report, they note that non-mortgage consumer debt has been edging up, due in part to a deterioration in lending standards. The company's Loan Performance Insights Report for January puts the national delinquency rate (the percentage of outstanding mortgage loans that were 30 or more days past due including loans in foreclosure) at 4.0 percent, down from 4.9 percent in January 2018. In 2010, at the height of the financial crisis, the January delinquency rate hit a peak of 12.0 percent. This continues a trend that started last March. CoreLogic says that since then the monthly delinquency rate has been lower than the corresponding months during 2000 to 2006, before the start of
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CoreLogic says mortgage delinquencies in January were the lowest for that month in 20 years . Meanwhile, in a separate report, they note that non-mortgage consumer debt has been edging up, due in part to a deterioration in lending standards. The comp... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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There are no significant economic reports or scheduled events on the calendar today, unless you count the 3yr Treasury auction at 1pm (and you probably shouldn't). That leaves bonds in the same positions as stocks and European markets. Al... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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Free ice cream at Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shops today? Count me in! Going back a few days, in Saturday’s commentary I mentioned a company offering blockchain HELOCs to brokers and correspondents. In other tech news, Bitcoin was used as co... (read more)
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Housing News
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A few couple of warm days, the appearance of a few tulips, and wham, homebuyer sentiment goes through the roof. At least the results from the March National Housing Survey (NHS) seem to support that theory. Net positive responses to whether it is cur... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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Back on Thursday afternoon, bonds/rates looked like they were just wrapping up the process of rising into position between the old range and the new range (2.52-2.55%). With NFP being the big market mover that it is, the expectation was that ra... (read more)
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates were flat-to-slightly-higher yet again today. Whereas that depended on the lender yesterday, today's weakness was more universal. That's not to say it was extreme, however. The average lender would still be quoting the same note rate a... (read more)
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