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Big Bad Day For Bonds. What's Next?
Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:41:02 GMT
Big Bad Day For Bonds. What's Next? Bonds sold off early and aggressively on Monday in a move that most onlookers are quickly attributing to geopolitics. Specifically, the thought is that higher oil prices imply ..[read more]
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Mortgage Rates Jump Back Into The 6's
Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:19:00 GMT
Mortgage rates began the new week with a fairly quick jump back into the low 6% range (top tier 30yr fixed rate for the average lender). With the news cycle very focused on developments in Iran, most coverage attempts to correlate geopolitical events..[read more]
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HELOC, AI/Compliance, eNote Products; Skiing and AI Events/Training; Capital Markets
Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:54:05 GMT
In what seems to be the blink of an eye we're down two months of 2026, and by most accounts they were decent for lenders and vendors. Here in Ft. Lauderdale at the Lenders One Summit, the talk in the hallways, like that at several recent conferences,..[read more]
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March Starts Sharply Weaker. Is it Iran?
Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:33:00 GMT
Spoiler alert: it's not Iran. And this morning's yields are the 2nd lowest in more than 3 months behind last Friday. Last Friday was also a month-end trading day with a mini snowball rally that defied overt explanation (apart from "month end bond buy..[read more]
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Bonds Cap Stellar Week/Month With Strongest Close
Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:24:47 GMT
Bonds Cap Stellar Week/Month With Strongest Close Bonds ended the week/month at their strongest levels with 10yr yields breaking below the 4.0% floor to close at 3.95+. In addition to the low outright level..[read more]
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Mortgage Rates End Week at Best Levels
Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:56:00 GMT
At this point, it is getting a bit repetitive to bring up "the lowest rates in more than 3 years"--something that was officially the case twice this week. If we give rates credit for stably holding these long-term lows (and we should!), then every da..[read more]
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Mortgage Demand Calm Before The Storm?
Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:27:00 GMT
Mortgage application activity edged ever-so-slightly higher last week, with the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reporting an increase of 0.4% on a seasonally adjusted basis for the week ending February 20. Refi applications continue to do the h..[read more]
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Home Prices Still Rising, But Pace Remains Subdued
Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:10:00 GMT
Home price appreciation pulled back slightly at the end of last year, according to December data from both FHFA and S&P/Cotality Case-Shiller. The reports reinforce the message that prices continued to appreciate modestly through the end of 2025. FH..[read more]
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Fraud, Processing, Verification Waterfall Products; Fairway and Insurance; Conv. Conforming Changes
Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:17:28 GMT
Can't you feel the anticipation building? March 5th' Trigger leads' Don't tell me that you've forgotten all about it. When a borrower applies for a mortgage and their credit is pulled, that data has historically been sold as a "trigger lead' and doze..[read more]
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Starting Out Under 4.0% Despite Hotter PPI
Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:29:33 GMT
We'd already discussed the fact that PPI has fallen by the wayside as a relevant market mover for bonds despite one or two instances of relevance nearly 2 years ago when bonds were desperate for any hints of change. Today's PPI results and the ensuin..[read more]
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