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| Mortgage Apps Bounce Back, Led By Refi Reversal | ||
| 12/10/2025 2:52 PM | ||
| Seasonally adjusted mortgage application activity rose 4.8% last week, according to MBA’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending December 5. Unadjusted applications jumped 49% from the prior week, reflecting a rebound following the Thanksgiving-related slowdown. The Refinance Index surged 14% from the previous week and remains 88%...Read More | ||
| Here"s What Changed in The New Fed Announcement | ||
| 12/10/2025 1:00 PM | ||
| Available indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Job gains have slowed this year, and the unemployment rate has edged up but remained low through August; more September. More recent indicators are consistent with these developments. Inflation has moved up since earlier in the year and remains somewhat ...Read More | ||
| DPA, Quick HELOC, Non-QM, Processing, AI Tools; Assumable Mortgages? Homebuyer Age Study | ||
| 12/10/2025 10:55 AM | ||
| Somewhere, in a parallel universe, Mariah Carey is walking around some supermarket, sick of listening to me sing Christmas carols. This is, of course, a humorous assumption, but what isn’t so humorous is the discussion begun by the Trump Administration about assumable mortgages, arguably the bane of MBS investors. Locked-in mortgage rates and froze...Read More | ||
| What to Watch in Today"s Dot Plot | ||
| 12/10/2025 9:14 AM | ||
| Bonds were modestly weaker overnight, but have moved back into positive territory after this morning"s Employment Cost Index and NYSE. This means 10yr yields are at the bleeding edge of the 3-month range heading into this afternoon"s Fed announcement. The rate cut is about as close to a foregone conclusion as normal, so the focus remains sq...Read More | ||
| Wednesday is All About Dot Plot and Powell | ||
| 12/9/2025 3:18 PM | ||
| Wednesday is All About Dot Plot and Powell Bonds lost ground moderately and logically on Tuesday in response to the JOLTS data. From here, this week"s volatility potential hinges on the Fed. Fed Funds Futures suggest that there"s been no change in rate cut prospects for Wednesday"s meeting. It remains...Read More | ||
| Can The Fed Pull Mortgage Rates Off The Ceiling? | ||
| 12/9/2025 2:59 PM | ||
| Mortgage rates were surprisingly steady on Tuesday with most lenders roughly in line with Monday"s levels. Why surprising? Because the bond market was noticeably weaker and bonds dictate day to day mortgage rate movement. In Tuesday"s case, we can actually reconcile the steadiness with the timing of bond market movement. Specifically, bonds ...Read More | ||
| Home Equity, Borrower Mining, Flood Tools; Milliman/MorVest Deal; Credit Cost News; Prepayments Slowing | ||
| 12/9/2025 10:43 AM | ||
| “Seminar ‘How to avoid frauds’ is canceled. Tickets are non-refundable.” Collectively, we don’t want mortgage fraud, right? It’s a non-partisan issue. A grand jury rejected a new mortgage fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James. Meanwhile, it must be difficult living under a constant microscope, and yesterday a story broke ...Read More | ||
| Job Openings Data Causing Weakness in Bonds | ||
| 12/9/2025 10:36 AM | ||
| Tuesday is a fairly straightforward session for the bond market. By now, we assume most of the pre-Fed positioning would be out of the way, and we know there was a decent amount of anticipation for the JOLTS data (job openings and labor turnover survey). True to form, volume spiked to its highest levels since the 11/20 delayed release of the ...Read More | ||
| Pre Fed Jitters? Not Exactly | ||
| 12/8/2025 3:26 PM | ||
| Pre Fed Jitters? Not Exactly Both stocks and bonds began to swoon moments after this morning"s 9:30am NYSE open. That sort of pervasive selling is often seen when the Fed"s rate cut outlook is deteriorating. With the Fed on deck Wednesday, it would be easy to slap "pre-Fed jitters" on the label of today"s s...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Start Week Near 3 Month Highs | ||
| 12/8/2025 3:02 PM | ||
| Both stocks and bonds lost ground on Monday. This pushed mortgage rates up near their highest levels in just over 3 months (because mortgages are based on bond prices). To put the 3-month highs in perspective, today"s rates are right in line with those seen 2 weeks ago. [thirtyyearmortgagerates] When we see a larger-than-average shift in ra...Read More | ||