MBS went through an interesting Employment Friday. I know it’s hard to remember back after a long weekend (especially for N.E. fans), but the bond market sold off pretty substantially on Friday after a better-than-expected employment report.&nbs...Read More
Bond markets had already been trending into negative territory leading up to today's 3yr auction, but took a turn for the worse afterwards with some help from a few newswires out of Greece. All that is detailed in the following alert from MBS Live. 3 Year Auction Moves The Whole St...Read More
Details are still sketchy, but apparently a settlement has been agreed upon between five major banks and a majority of the states' attorneys general. The settlement involves Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and Ally Financial and arises out of charges that the banks and thei...Read More
This is Black (African-American) History Month. The event began as Black History Week in 1926. For many years, the second week of February was set aside for this celebration to coincide with the birthdays of abolitionist/editor Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln ...Read More
There are all sorts of ways to divide market moving information into different categories. One of our favorites is also one of the most broad: scheduled vs unscheduled. At first glance, it might seem a bit odd to classify something scheduled as "market moving information" before it...Read More
The Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Treasury issued the administration's January Housing Scorecard on Monday. The report is essentially a summary of data on housing and housing finance released by public and private sources over the previous month and/or quarter. Most of the ...Read More
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports that commercial and multifamily loan originations were down 7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 compared to the third quarter but were 13 percent higher than originations in the fourth quarter a year earlier. The year-over year change was driven by...Read More
Following Friday's employment data, Mortgages Rates moved quickly higher. In most cases, the changes were seen not in the quoted interest rates themselves, but rather in the closing costs required to obtain those rates. A small number of lenders' Best-Execution rates rose to 4.0%, ...Read More
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