Fri, Aug 31 2012, 4:36 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Today's tricky because the obvious focus had been Bernanke's Jackson Hole speech . So seeing a su...
Thu, Aug 30 2012, 11:29 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Lowest 10yr yield on 8/28 was 1.6147... Given that we generally characterize the current week as fl...
Thu, Aug 30 2012, 7:25 AM
Bond markets continued to give the impression that they're not eager to commit to any prolonged directional moves ahead of the series of events most...
Thu, Aug 30 2012, 4:30 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Thursday night and we've essentially seen the sidewa ys range established last Thursday hold up in...
Wed, Aug 29 2012, 11:35 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
This morning has seen Q2 final GDP print +1.7 percent, as expected, as well as a better-than-expect...
Wed, Aug 29 2012, 7:54 AM
Occasionally, reality proves to sober the cynicism or concern in our analysis. Sometimes, events crop up that have an unexpectedly large impact on tr...
Wed, Aug 29 2012, 4:19 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Volume increased today as headlines and data became more plentiful, but not necessarily because of ...
Tue, Aug 28 2012, 11:34 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Last week we noted the possibility that the current week could see a mostly sideways grind into the...
Tue, Aug 28 2012, 7:00 AM
While Monday technically contained a modicum of economic data in the form of the Chicago Fed's manufacturing index, the first potentially market-mov...
Tue, Aug 28 2012, 4:24 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
The biggest story of the day was that there continue to be no big stories since last week's FOMC...
Mon, Aug 27 2012, 11:09 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
The week is off to the slow and relatively sideways start as expected with much of the volume acc...
Mon, Aug 27 2012, 6:59 AM
The week ahead has potential to offer decent amounts of markets movement only to the extent that it's economic data and auctions deviate from expectat...
Mon, Aug 27 2012, 4:22 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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