August 1, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • August 1, 2023
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08/01/23 4:47pm ET WRAP UPUMBS 5.5: 98.86 (-39bps) 10yr yield: 4.04 No improvement today, leaving the door open for things to get worse. Risks favor locking, little reason to believe that we will see rates move lower. If Friday’s jobs data shows softening to the labor market, we could see rates fall back again… but

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July 31, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • July 31, 2023
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Wrap up10yr yield: 3.96 Bonds off their best levels of the day, if you saw one of the handful of reprices better today you may see them reprices worse again before the day is over… otherwise not enough movement for most lenders to bother (but some may). Unless holding out for jobs data or CPI

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July 28, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • July 28, 2023
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07/28/23 4:30pm ET WRAP UPUMBS 5.5: 99.30 (+38bps)10yr yield: 3.96 After a rough ride, mtg bonds about the same levels we ended with on Tuesday. I told you not to panic yesterday, although we won’t yet see the full recovery on most rate sheets unless we get a positive start Monday, bonds have recovered a

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July 27, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • July 27, 2023
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Rate sheets this morning should be a bit better than yesterday, and reprice risk on the day is low. Strong economic data this morning put a damper on things… jobless claims coming in lower than expected pointing to a strong labor market, 2nd qtr GDP data showing the economy is nowhere near a recession, and

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July 26, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • July 26, 2023
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Our benchmark FNMA MBS 6.00 August Coupon is currently up +28 BPS. Taking it to the House: Weekly Mortgage Applications were down by -1.8%. Purchases led the way lower with -2.5%. Refinances were basically flat at -0.4%. June New Home Sales were vs. est. of 727K. The Talking Fed: We got the Fed’s latest Interest

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July 25, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • July 25, 2023
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Rate sheets this morning likely slipping a bit from yesterday as bonds lose ground early. Reprice risk today is low, the losses will already be on the day’s rate sheet and the real fireworks come tomorrow after the Fed meeting. Today brings consumer confidence data at 10am ET though, which could see morning rate sheets

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July 24, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • July 24, 2023
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Rate sheets this morning likely pretty similar to Friday, as bonds settle in to the calm before the storm. Reprice risk today is low, with nothing in the way of economic data to shake things up and a muzzle still on all the Fed speakers ahead of this week’s Fed meeting. Likely that rates tread

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July 20, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • July 20, 2023
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Rate sheets taking a hit this morning as bonds opened much weaker on the day. An unexpected turn, as bonds lost a lot of ground in overnight trading but are now finding a bottom. This isn’t anything to panic about, but does put a damper on the morning. Reprice risk on the day is low

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July 19, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • July 19, 2023
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Rate sheets this morning likely to look similar to yesterday, and reprice risk on the day is low. Yesterday saw mortgage bonds lose some ground through the afternoon with a handful of late day reprices worse, mainly on the wholesale side, but nothing to get worked up about. Bonds improving this morning on news that

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July 18, 2023 – Economic News

  • July 18, 2023
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MBS OVERVIEW Our benchmark FNMA MBS 6.00 August Coupon is currently up +8 BPS. Retail Sales: We got a mixed bag with the June data. The headline Retail Sales were lighter than expectations, 0.2% vs. est. of 0.5% but May was revised higher from 0.3% to 0.5%. Ex Autos, Retail Sales were up 0.2% vs.

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