Wed, Aug 8 2012, 4:15 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Today may turn out to be one of the last few bits of weakness before bond markets finally put their fo...
Tue, Aug 7 2012, 11:20 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Market participants as well as the trends in trading levels all to ok the day of yesterday, but at...
Tue, Aug 7 2012, 6:07 AM
Monday's volume was as light as it's been since early April. Markets took a breather following the intense events on the last three days of the previ...
Tue, Aug 7 2012, 4:25 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Bond markets were increasingly punished during the late overnight session as Europe essentially sen...
Mon, Aug 6 2012, 11:37 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
It's completely dead out there. Sometimes we see days/weeks like this ahead on the calendar and can ...
Mon, Aug 6 2012, 8:20 AM
Compared to last week, which boasted several major central bank policy announcements and the jobs report, the week ahead is a relative ghost town in t...
Mon, Aug 6 2012, 4:21 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
"Inside Day" is a term that is occasionally used to denote market movement that is relatively more ...
Fri, Aug 3 2012, 12:16 AM
Central banks have failed to incite lasting motivation for bond markets to abandon their low, sideways depression. Mario Draghi's comments about doin...
Fri, Aug 3 2012, 11:36 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
There are clearly visible players as well as 'behind the scenes' players involved in a rather brisk s...
Fri, Aug 3 2012, 4:31 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Relative to the past two months of relatively tame day-over-day movement
and relatively light vol...
Thu, Aug 2 2012, 11:23 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
A week after ECB President Mario Draghi's strongly worded rhetoric prompted a rally in the Euro and ...
Thu, Aug 2 2012, 7:34 AM
After Wednesday's FOMC Announcement failed to motivate markets much, the onus falls even more clearly on today's ECB announcement. This was already p...
Thu, Aug 2 2012, 4:25 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Today's ECB headlines lived up to their potential at least in one way: they created volume and vola...
Wed, Aug 1 2012, 11:27 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
By now, we hope it's been mentioned enough that we're all on the same page about markets in general,...
Wed, Aug 1 2012, 8:20 AM
Coming off two positive days in a row to begin the week in bond markets, things get a bit more serious today. Whereas Monday and Tuesday could have j...
Wed, Aug 1 2012, 4:12 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
As far as FOMC Announcements go, today saw a much lighter than normal volume and volatility. Trading r...
Wed, Aug 1 2012, 2:19 PM
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April June suggests that economic activity decelerated somewhat over the eco...
Tue, Jul 31 2012, 11:22 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
As has been the case many times in recent memory, the majority of today's day-over-day change took p...
Tue, Jul 31 2012, 7:56 AM
Markets are not shy about the fact that the week begins in earnest today. Both at home and abroad, we see the highest concentration of economic data ...
Tue, Jul 31 2012, 4:28 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Last Thursday and Friday were bad for MBS. The rest of the week up to that point was good. In fac...
Mon, Jul 30 2012, 11:18 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
There's definitely a more even-keeled tone about today's trading vs Friday's, when the big news hit ...
Mon, Jul 30 2012, 8:32 AM
This is it! The week where the fate of the world is decided! If your first thought upon reading that was to be skeptical, you're on the right track....
Mon, Jul 30 2012, 4:16 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Standing as the starting point for a week that promises a chance volatility and big moves, today wa...
Fri, Jul 27 2012, 11:21 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
MBS and Treasuries are thus far doing an admirable job of holding their ground against what has been ...
Fri, Jul 27 2012, 7:55 AM
In many ways, the most exciting thing about today could be that it's the last day to get out of the way before getting to FOMC week. Despite the oste...
Fri, Jul 27 2012, 4:45 PM
Mortgage Rates moved sharply higher today after markets received additional indications that the European Central Bank, or "ECB," is intent on doing ...
Fri, Jul 27 2012, 4:41 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
ECB Pres Mario Draghi was the subject of our discussion yesterday afternoon after his impassioned speech ...
Thu, Jul 26 2012, 11:18 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
As noted in the morning alert below, the crux of this morning's weakness is attributable to ECB Pres...
Thu, Jul 26 2012, 8:35 AM
Wednesday turned out to be the tamest day of the week for bond markets as production MBS not only traded inside Tuesday's range, but Monday's as well....
Thu, Jul 26 2012, 4:26 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Bond markets were utterly deprived of excitement in the overnight session until ECB Pres Mario Drag...
Wed, Jul 25 2012, 11:16 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Once again, European markets set the stage for a weaker start to the day for MBS and Treasuries. Th...
Wed, Jul 25 2012, 8:42 AM
It's all well and good to talk about the economic calendar or the Treasury auction cycle as if it were some bygone era where such things had the same ...
Wed, Jul 25 2012, 4:12 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Things were looking slightly risky earlier today. Bond markets were weaker overnight on Euro bulli...
Tue, Jul 24 2012, 11:34 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Treasuries traded weaker overnight as German Bunds took a major hit from the Moody's downgrade war...
Tue, Jul 24 2012, 8:17 AM
To do anything other than to credit Europe with the bulk of this week's market-moving potential looks increasingly like folly. Domestic events were o...
Tue, Jul 24 2012, 4:27 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Treasury yields were higher overnight in response to general upward from German Bunds after Moody's pu...
Mon, Jul 23 2012, 11:13 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
MBS and Treasuries both hit their all-time strongest levels early this morning with 10's dipping to ...
Mon, Jul 23 2012, 8:32 AM
10yr yields moved to new all-time lows overnight as the slow-motion train wreck in Europe continues to unfold. The Spanish region of Murcia becomes t...
Mon, Jul 23 2012, 4:15 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
MBS are on track to close at all-time highs in terms after hitting new intraday highs this morni...
Fri, Jul 20 2012, 11:50 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
In one short day, domestic bond markets have gone from threatening to bounce higher in yield to confi...
Fri, Jul 20 2012, 8:06 AM
Bond markets seemed to face an uphill battle from the outset on Thursday. Treasuries closely followed German Bunds in the overnight session and came ...
Fri, Jul 20 2012, 4:29 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
MBS rose boldly into previously unexplored territory today as Fannie
3.0's spent more than just a...
Thu, Jul 19 2012, 11:21 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Certainly German Bunds are on the watch-list for US Treasuries after the former hit new record low...
Thu, Jul 19 2012, 8:30 AM
Yesterday, we noted that the morning's economic data was highly unlikely to move markets and that Bernanke's 2nd round of Congressional testimony was ...
Thu, Jul 19 2012, 4:11 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
MBS have really put on an impressive display of 'ground-holding' in that they've maintained Fannie 3.0...
Wed, Jul 18 2012, 11:44 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Very little has changed today vs yesterday with respect to the general flow of data and events. In b...
Wed, Jul 18 2012, 8:26 AM
From a technical standpoint, bond markets are playing a dangerous game at the moment. We'll consider this dangerous game for a moment against the bac...
Wed, Jul 18 2012, 4:29 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
The tone for bond markets today was largely set by the general drift lower in German Bund yields to...
Tue, Jul 17 2012, 11:22 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
The morning's economic data was largely uneventful, as expected. Focus has been and continues to be...
Tue, Jul 17 2012, 6:58 AM
10yr yields hit all time lows yesterday and production MBS hit all time highs. But rather than forging ahead into new all time lows, 10yr yields (we'...