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| Full Reversal And Then Some | ||
| 5/20/2026 3:19 PM | ||
| Full Reversal And Then Some Bonds more than made up from Tuesday"s rout with a massive rally on Wednesday. Unlike Tuesday"s move, which was driven by bond-market-specific selling pressure on the part of one account"s massive liquidations, Wednesday"s rally was broad-based and driven by war-related headlines...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Recover All of Yesterday"s Losses | ||
| 5/20/2026 1:58 PM | ||
| Wednesday brought some much-needed relief for the mortgage market after rates surged to new 9 month highs of 6.75% yesterday. Whereas that rate spike was decoupled from the prevailing narrative of war-related headlines, today"s recovery was quite the opposite. Newswires came out shortly after 10am ET that suggested the U.S. and Iran are nearing a ...Read More | ||
| TPO Non-QM, Vendor Strategy, Cybersecurity Tools; NY Conference Talk; Fed Raise Coming? | ||
| 5/20/2026 10:43 AM | ||
| Here in New York, as over a thousand of us head to airports (hopefully avoiding manholes… tragic), the mood has been pragmatic. Not overly optimistic, not somber, just realistic. No one is arguing that the war hasn’t driven up worldwide oil prices, impacting inflation and borrower psychology, impacting lending. The Mortgage Bankers Association now ...Read More | ||
| Bleeding Subsides For Now, Headlines Helping But Bonds Remain Cautious | ||
| 5/20/2026 9:24 AM | ||
| Tuesday"s massive wave of bond-specific weakness still has the analytical community scratching its collective head. Our contacts are either saying nothing or telling us they"re just as perplexed. So far this morning, there hasn"t been any sort of repeat performance. Lower oil prices have helped bonds find their footing, but the move has ...Read More | ||
| Whales Making Waves in Treasury Futures | ||
| 5/19/2026 3:57 PM | ||
| Whales Making Waves in Treasury Futures Nerd alert: there"s no way to discuss what happened in the bond market today without getting a bit nerdy. Reason being, there was an absolute deluge of block trades in Treasury futures (over $20bln--the biggest day we can remember for outright block trades). Ther...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Jump Again, Now up 0.75% Since Start of The War | ||
| 5/19/2026 2:28 PM | ||
| It was another rough day for the bond market and, thus, for interest rates. Investors aggressively sold bonds in the first 2 hours of trading, taking 10yr Treasury yields to the highest level in more than a year. Mortgage-specific bonds have been doing better versus Treasuries in recent months thanks to increased purchase demand from Fannie Mae an...Read More | ||
| AI, Construction, Servicing, QC Products; NY Conference Chatter; AI Governance; LO Comp | ||
| 5/19/2026 10:55 AM | ||
| One of the discussion topics here in New York at the MBA conference is, just like every other conference, artificial intelligence, and one of the questions is, “Who’s accountable if something goes wrong?” Any one of us in capital markets will tell you that, in the case of Freddie, Fannie, investors, and so on, lenders are held ultimately accountabl...Read More | ||
| Increasing Signs of Bond-Specific Panic | ||
| 5/19/2026 8:40 AM | ||
| Ever since the initial 2 week ceasefire was announced in the Iran war, the bond market has adhered to trend channels that align with either de-escalation or re-escalation sentiment. Nothing too complicated here: if sentiment is trending in favor of peace, bonds have rallied. If sentiment is deteriorating, bonds have sold off. There was a temporary ...Read More | ||
| Bombarded by Headlines, But Little-Changed | ||
| 5/18/2026 3:18 PM | ||
| Bombarded by Headlines, But Little-Changed Monday"s trading session ended up being an exercise in headline-watching, as has been the case on so many days since the start of the Iran war. Today was more active than normal in that regard. The earliest headlines (as covered in the AM commentary) were helpful u...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Start Week at New 9 Month High, But Just Barely | ||
| 5/18/2026 2:34 PM | ||
| Mortgage rates hit their highest levels in more than 9 months at the end of last week. Now today, they"ve edged slightly higher yet again with the average top tier 30yr fixed rate at 6.68% versus 6.65% on Friday. This wasn"t necessarily destined to be the case today. In fact the day began with the average lender unchanged. But the underlying marke...Read More | ||