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Good News and Bad News About Today"s Selling
4/18/2024 2:55 PM
Good News and Bad News About Today"s Selling The bad news is that bonds resumed their weaker tendencies today with 10yr yields moving back up into the 4.6"s.  Culprits included stronger economic data, hawkish Fed comments, and possibly the fact that the previous day"s gains were driven by corrective sh...Read More
 
Mortgage Rates Higher Today, But Not Quite as High as Tuesday
4/18/2024 2:36 PM
Tuesday marked the highest mortgage rates since November, capping a mini surge that began after last week"s inflation data. After a moderate improvement yesterday, rates moved back up toward (but thankfully not above) the recent highs today.  Financial markets reacted to stronger economic data and comments from Federal Reserve officials regar...Read More
 
Bonds Are Back to Their Old Ways
4/18/2024 11:09 AM
After the best day in a month and a half on Wednesday, the bond market is back to its recent habit of selling off and moving toward higher yields.  It looked the losses were set to be more modest at the beginning of the day, but things got worse after Fed"s Williams delivered a bit of a hawkish shift.  Williams was the one who pushed back...Read More
 
MSR Execution, VOI, Post-Closing Audit, Client Acquisition Tools; May Training and Events
4/18/2024 10:12 AM
What loan officer hasn’t had a memorable co-signing experience? Some more so than others. Along those lines, if you head to Disneyland or Disneyworld, and find bone chips or ashes on the floor of your favorite ride, it is probably not an accident. Nor is eking out a gain, or at least breaking even, in residential lending an accident. At the Great R...Read More
 
Too Soon to Say Higher Yields Are Bringing Buyers?
4/17/2024 3:32 PM
Too Soon to Say Higher Yields Are Bringing Buyers? Bonds enjoyed their best day in more than a month and a half on Wednesday, which can"t help but beg the question: why?  Days like today require a process of elimination and some guesswork.  We don"t have a big, obvious market mover in play in term...Read More
 
Mortgage Rates Finally Win One
4/17/2024 3:14 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today after hitting the highest levels since mid November yesterday.  Some lenders were down as much as an eighth of a percent, which is on the bigger side for a day-over-day change for conventional 30yr fixed rates.  As nice as it is to see a big improvement, it"s important to understand the nature of the move...Read More
 
Non-QM, Verification, Fraud Prevention, Buy Before You Sell Products; STRATMOR on Borrower Satisfaction
4/17/2024 10:37 AM
“We base our business model on lots of things, but not on our ability to predict rates.” Remember when there used to be “a flight to quality” when there was world unrest, and investors put their money into dollar-denominated assets? Long gone. Even if one knew exactly what was going to happen in the United States, how can anyone, including the Fede...Read More
 
Token Bounce
4/17/2024 10:16 AM
The bond market is getting off to a stronger start today despite an absence of any new motivations in the news or economic calendar.  In fact, the calendar is essentially empty when it comes to market movers.  While we could make a case for some friendly spillover from European bonds, and while the timing and correlation line up fairly we...Read More
 
Mortgage App Volume Ticks Higher Despite Higher Rates
4/17/2024 7:35 AM
Mortgage interest rates rose for the second straight week, and so did the volume of mortgage applications. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of that volume, increased 3.3 percent on an adjusted basis from one week earlier and 4.0 percent before adjustment.   The Refinance Index increased 0.5 pe...Read More
 
Mortgage Rates Back to 7.5%
4/16/2024 3:56 PM
The bad times keep rolling for mortgage rates with the average conventional 30yr fixed rate back up to 7.5% according to our daily index.  This is quite a bit higher than the major weekly indices for a few reasons.  First, the weekly indices haven"t been updated for the current week yet.  When that changes, because they are averages,...Read More




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Your Money Articles from New York Times:
 
That Giant College ‘Sticker’ Price Isn’t What Most Students Pay
4/12/2024 3:24 PM
The share of those paying the full advertised cost has declined over the last couple of decades, a new report found. Yet many don’t understand how much they’ll really pay...Read More
 
Biden’s Student Loan Repayment Plan Is Being Challenged. Here’s What to Know.
4/13/2024 4:03 AM
The income-driven plan known as SAVE has reduced payments for millions of borrowers. Lawsuits by Republican-led states are seeking to upend it...Read More
 
Why Better Times (and Big Raises) Haven’t Cured the Inflation Hangover
4/15/2024 4:00 AM
Frustrated by higher prices, many Pennsylvanians with fresh pay raises and solid finances report a sense of insecurity lingering from the pandemic...Read More
 
Immigrants in Maine Are Filling a Labor Gap. It May Be a Prelude for the U.S.
4/12/2024 5:00 AM
A wave of rapid immigration is taxing local resources around the country and drawing political ire. But it might leave America’s economy better off...Read More
 
Thousands Are Eligible for Tax Refunds From 2020
4/19/2024 8:00 AM
The I.R.S. estimates that 940,000 people who didn’t file their returns for that year are due back money. The deadline for filing to get it is May 17...Read More
 
Here’s Why This Bouquet of Red Roses Costs $72 in NYC.
4/16/2024 5:00 PM
A dozen red roses is timeless. But its price tag is not. At Ditmars Flower Shop in Queens, where costs have soared in recent years, a bouquet is $72, up from $60 in 2019...Read More
 
Paying Off People’s Medical Debt Has Little Impact on Their Lives, Study Finds
4/8/2024 12:22 PM
A nonprofit group called R.I.P. Medical Debt has relieved Americans of $11 billion in hospital bills. But that did not improve their mental health or their credit scores, a study found...Read More
 
Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen?
4/8/2024 1:55 PM
Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school doesn’t really want to talk about it...Read More
 
Tips on How to Pack a Carry-on
4/3/2024 4:00 AM
Should you fold or roll your clothes? Is a duffel bag better than a backpack or a bag with wheels? How to pack light and avoid checked-bag fees (not to mention lost luggage)...Read More
 
A Review of Robinhood’s 3 Percent Cash-Back Card
4/11/2024 11:22 AM
Charles Schwab stopped offering a 2 percent card years ago, and most banks don’t hand over more than 2 percent either...Read More



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