July 6, 2023 – Economic News

  • July 6, 2023
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MBS OVERVIEW Our benchmark FNMA MBS 6.00 July Coupon is currently down -31 BPS. Taking it to the House: Weekly Mortgage Applications fell by -4.4%. Purchases were down -4.6% and Refinances were down -4.1%. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: We have several key jobs reports this morning: The Talking Fed: Today we will hear from Dallas Fed

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July 3, 2023 – Economic News

  • July 3, 2023
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MBS OVERVIEW Three Things: These are the three areas that have the greatest ability to impact your backend pricing this week. 1) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, 2) The Talking Fed and 3) Rosie the Riveter 1) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: We get a ton of job and wage related data this week culminating in Big Jobs Friday.

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June 30, 2023 – Economic News

  • June 30, 2023
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MBS OVERVIEW Our benchmark FNMA MBS 6.00 July Coupon is currently up +21 BPS. Inflation Nation: The Fed’s key measure of inflation, Core PCE (Ex food and energy) increased in May by 0.3% on a MOM basis on top of April’s increase of 0.4%. The consensus estimates were from 0.4%. YOY, Core PCE was up

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June 29, 2023 – Economic News

  • June 29, 2023
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MBS OVERVIEW Our benchmark FNMA MBS 6.00 July Coupon is currently down -31 BPS. Taking it to the House: The May Pending Home Sales Index dropped by -2.7% vs. 0.2%. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Initial Weekly Jobless Claims were better (lower) than expected, 239K vs. est. of 265K. The more closely watched 4 week moving average

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June 28, 2023 – Economic News

  • June 28, 2023
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MBS OVERVIEW Our benchmark FNMA MBS 6.00 July Coupon is currently up +20 BPS. Taking it to the House: Weekly Mortgage Applications increased by 3.0%. Refinances were up 3.3% and Purchases were up 2.8% Central Bank Palooza: We heard from ALL the bigwigs today in a Central Bankers panel in Portugal. MBS didn’t have much

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June 27, 2023 – Economic News

  • June 27, 2023
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MBS OVERVIEW Our benchmark FNMA MBS 6.00 July Coupon is currently down -11 BPS. Rosie the Riveter: May Durable Goods were much stronger than expected with the headline reading rising by 1.7% vs. est. of a contraction of -1.0%. Ex Transportation, it was up 0.6% vs. est. of -0.1% and Non Defense Capital Goods Ex

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June 26, 2023 – Economic News

  • June 26, 2023
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MBS OVERVIEW Our benchmark FNMA MBS 6.00 July Coupon is currently up just +6 BPS. Rosie the Riveter: The June Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey continued to slump with a contractionary reading of -26.5 which follow May’s very weak -29.1. Treasury Dump: We kicked off three days of dumping our debt into the marketplace with our

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June 23, 2023 – Economic News

  • June 23, 2023
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MBS OVERVIEW Our benchmark FNMA MBS 6.00 July Coupon is currently up +19 BPS. Markit Down: The June Markit Flash PMIs showed Manufacturing at 46.3 vs. est. of 48.5 and Services PMI at 54.1.0 vs. est. of 54.0 Not a lot of data this week other than housing news. The week headlined by Jerome Powell’s

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June 22, 2023 – Economic News

  • June 22, 2023
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MBS OVERVIEW Our benchmark FNMA MBS 6.00 July Coupon is currently down at -23 BPS. Taking it to the House: May Existing Home Sales were 4.30M units on an annualized basis vs. est. of 4.250M. The Talking Fed: Fed Chair Powell completed two days of testimony. This time to the Senate Banking Committee. There were

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June 21, 2023 – Economic News

  • June 21, 2023
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MBS OVERVIEW Domestic Flavor: Taking it to the House: Weekly Mortgage Applications were flat at 0.5%. Refinances were down -2.1% and Purchases were up 1.5%. The Talking Fed: Fed Chair Powell will give his Semiannual Monetary Policy report to the Committee on Financial Services in the House today at 10 am ET. We already have

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