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2018
Today was Fed day when the Fed's Open Market Committee concluded its meeting and Janet Yellen held court at her last news conference as Fed Chairman. The Fed message was a bit hawkish sighting a somewhat stronger economy and anticipating rising inflation during the next twelve months. The Dow, ...
01/31/2018
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Mortgage backed securities (MBS) closed up 6 basis points today at 101.00 after having been down as many as 44 basis points during the session. They remained below resistance offered by the 10, 25 and 50 day moving averages and come to rest 28 basis points below the 10 day. The 30 year was ava...
01/31/2018
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Stocks experienced the largest two day sell-off since June 2016 today. Traders are concerned that the increasing yields of Treasuries and MBS bonds will push mortgage interest rates higher. We should be concerned a s well because if this trend continues rates will be higher. Amazon, Warren Buf...
01/30/2018
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Mortgage backed securities (MBS) closed down 6 basis points today at 100.97 after having been down as many as 25basis points during the session. They remained below resistance offered by the 10, 25 and 50 day moving averages and come to rest 37 basis points below the 10 day. The 30 year was av...
01/30/2018
Today the Fed's favorite measure of inflation the core Personal Consumption Expenditure index (PCE) was released and it showed year over year inflation at 1.5%. As I have mentioned many times, the Fed's goal for inflation is 2%. With the economy increasing at a rate of 2.6% last quarter, that m...
01/29/2018
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Mortgage backed securities (MBS) closed down 22 basis points today at 101.06 after having been down as many as 41 basis points during the session. They remained below resistance offered by the 10, 25 and 50 day moving averages and come to rest 37 basis points below the 10 day. The 30 year was...
01/29/2018
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Mortgage backed securities (MBS) closed down 22basis points today at 101.28 after having been down as many as 31 basis points during the session. They remained below resistance offered by the 10, 25 and 50 day moving averages and come to rest 27 basis points below the 10 day. The 30 year was ...
01/26/2018
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01/26/2018
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As President Trump and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin shared juxtaposed positions on the U.S. dollar today, stock and bond markets were roiled with volatility. Industry giants Caterpillar and 3M's strong earnings today pushed the Dow Jones nicely forward, the S&p 500 struggled for a small gain and ...
01/25/2018
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Mortgage backed securities (MBS) closed up 16 basis points today at 101.38 after having been up as many as 16 basis points during the session. They remained below resistance offered by the 10, 25 and 50 day moving averages and come to rest 5 basis points below the 10 day. The 30 year was avail...
01/25/2018
