Mon, Feb 8 2010, 8:56 AM
Stocks sold off in a panicky fashion last week as sovereign debt concerns grew over Greece, Portugal, and Spain's ballooning budget deficit and rising...
Fri, Feb 5 2010, 11:45 AM
Now that the jobs report is behind us, the marketplace will put all focus on sovereign debt anxieties abroad. Part of the reason for panic has to due...
Fri, Feb 5 2010, 8:31 AM
20,000 jobs were lost in January according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate fell from 10.0% to 9.7%. This will surely grab hea...
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 11:05 AM
We've been here before! We've seen bond bearish NFP prints, we've seen tons of "better than expected" data, we've watched stocks rally on and on and o...
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 8:57 AM
Jobless Claims increased by 8,000 last week to 480,000 new claims. This was worse than expected. The rates market, which was already rebounding from y...
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 3:45 PM
"There will be a jobs revision I'm told tomorrow that's likely to show additional job loss at the first part of the recession that started in December...
Wed, Feb 3 2010, 12:01 PM
While Treasury issuance remains elevated at high levels, issuance size is not expected to continue to grow. Again, this is not a huge supportive infl...
Wed, Feb 3 2010, 8:37 AM
We have been pretty firm about locking on strength and willing to float at the outer limits of the range...at this point that is getting very risky. A...
Tue, Feb 2 2010, 11:25 AM
MBS are angry this morning, well not really but it looks like it on the charts. "Rate sheet influential" MBS prices have CHOPPED CHOPPED CHOPPED aroun...
Mon, Feb 1 2010, 11:53 AM
Mon, Feb 1 2010, 9:14 AM
Both benchmarks and "Rate sheet influential" MBS coupons have found their way back toward important pivot points. The FN 4.0 is 0-05 at 97-28 yielding...
Fri, Jan 29 2010, 11:19 AM
Fri, Jan 29 2010, 8:38 AM
LESS CONTRACTION IN BUSINESS INVENTORIES ACCOUNTED FOR 59% OF GDP GAINS! This will not carry over into Q1 2010. While markets had a muted reaction to ...
Fri, Jan 29 2010, 5:18 PM
Fri, Jan 29 2010, 1:06 PM
Today's rates rally started as one of those "sell the rumor, buy the news" aka FADE THE DATA moves. The bond market knew GDP would be strong, so they ...
Thu, Jan 28 2010, 11:51 AM
Rates are not benefiting from the stock lever because of three reasons. Auction concession + unwind of FOMC flatteners + Bernanke uncertainty. My outl...
Thu, Jan 28 2010, 8:41 AM
All was good in the rates market leading up to 215pm yesterday. Rate sheet rebate was holding close to month over month bests, 10s were quietly boun...
Thu, Jan 28 2010, 5:20 PM
Thu, Jan 28 2010, 3:47 PM
Thu, Jan 28 2010, 1:03 PM
The Treasury has successfully auctioned $32 billion 7-year notes. Auction demand was strong, but the rates market has failed to make positive progress...
Wed, Jan 27 2010, 11:33 AM
Wed, Jan 27 2010, 9:23 AM
The day ahead promises to be busy. At 10am we get New Home Sales, then at 1pm the Treasury will release auction results on a $42 billion 5year note of...
Wed, Jan 27 2010, 5:19 PM
Wed, Jan 27 2010, 4:00 PM
Mortgages are heading into the close near their worst price levels of the day. The FN 4.0 is -0-08 at 97-21 yielding 4.224% and the FN 4.5 is -0-06 a...
Wed, Jan 27 2010, 2:20 PM
REPRICES FOR THE WORSE ARE LIKELY....REPRICES FOR THE WORSE ARE LIKELY....REPRICES FOR THE WORSE ARE LIKELY
Wed, Jan 27 2010, 1:05 PM
As of right this very moment, there has been no negative response to the recently released auction results. This places the brunt of the potential vo...
Tue, Jan 26 2010, 11:38 AM
he Treasury will announce auction results on $44 billion 2s at 1pm. I am not going to dive deep into analysis on this one, I think the outlook is fair...
Tue, Jan 26 2010, 8:31 AM
If you are still floating your pipeline I recommend you keep a close watch on the marketplace over the next few days. We see the recent "relief rally"...
Tue, Jan 26 2010, 5:01 PM
Earlier in the afternoon, we mentioned the sudden onset of selling in the stock market in conjunction with the high level of connection in the stock l...
Tue, Jan 26 2010, 3:30 PM
Tue, Jan 26 2010, 1:32 PM
Following the average auction (average at best), interest rates moved higher. However shortly thereafter status quo was restored as short covering slo...
Mon, Jan 25 2010, 12:00 PM