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TBA Bidding, HELOC, DSCR, CRM, HMDA Analysis, MI Tools; Events Throughout 2026
Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:55:23 GMT
According to Curinos' proprietary application index, March 2026 funded mortgage volume increased 35 percent y-o-y and increased 30 percent m-o-m. How did your company stack up? Curinos calculates that refinance and purchase rates were 5-6 basis point..[read more]
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Bonds Growing Tired of "Game On! Game Off!" News Cycle
Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:34:27 GMT
Markets have plenty of war-related headlines to digest at any given moment these days. And while some of those headlines have been the biggest market movers of the month, traders are increasingly focusing on the examples that speak to the biggest-pic..[read more]
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Bonds Ultimately Follow Oil's Lead, Heading Lower On War-Related Optimism
Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:27:21 GMT
Bonds Ultimately Follow Oil's Lead, Heading Lower War-Related Optimism While there were no incredibly memorable sound bytes on the Iran war today, there were a few headlines that proved to be actionable for finan..[read more]
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Lowest Mortgage Rates in 4 Weeks
Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:23:00 GMT
Mortgage rates had their best day of the month so far with the top tier 30yr fixed rate falling 0.08% for the average lender to the lowest levels in exactly 4 weeks. Today's improvement is a bit bigger than today's bond market movement would suggest..[read more]
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MERS Review, TPO, Virtual LO, Digital Ass't, HELOC, Warehouse Products; Policy Moves for LOs to Watch
Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:47:06 GMT
Products, Services, and Software for Brokers and Lenders Meet the Axos Warehouse Lending and WCPL teams at MBA's Secondary & Capital Markets Conference, May 17'20, 2026, at the Marriott Marquis New York. Axos Warehouse Lending helps mortgage lender..[read more]
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Why Aren't Bonds Responding to a Big Beat in Inflation Data?
Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:29:01 GMT
Bonds were fairly flat overnight and haven't moved much so far in the domestic session. More importantly, until 7am, bonds were slightly weaker even as oil prices have fallen and stocks have rallied. What gives?! If PPI had come in mu..[read more]
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Weekend Selling Reverses After Another Round of De-Escalation Headlines
Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:08:16 GMT
Weekend Selling Reverses After Another Round of De-Escalation Headlines Another day, another chance to sort through a barrage of war-related headlines to see which ones mattered to the bond market. In today's cas..[read more]
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Mortgage Rates Hold Steady Over The Weekend
Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:30:00 GMT
Mortgage rates are based on movement in the bond market and although bonds experienced some volatility in response to Iran war news over the weekend, they ended up in similar territory to Friday morning. As such, it's no surprise to see mortgage rate..[read more]
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AI, LOS, Subservicing, MERS Review, Fraud Prevention Tools; Webinars; Wholesale and Correspondent News
Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:01:35 GMT
Products, Services, and Software for Brokers and Lenders FundingShield, the leader in wire & title fraud prevention, released its Q1'2026 Wire Fraud Analytics & Risk Report showing 43.72 percent of transactions across a $106.7B+ portfolio carried m..[read more]
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Overnight Weakness (But Bouncing Back) After Peace Talks Fail
Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:22:51 GMT
Heading into the weekend, the big news was that the U.S. and Iran would meet in Pakistan to negotiate a peace deal. But by Sunday morning, the talks had failed over an impasse on Iran's nuclear enrichment program. The market-mover, however, was the U..[read more]
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