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The Mortgage Street Smarts of where mortgage interest rates are going (and why):
The following information is current as of Thursday 1-19-2012 and will help you understand todays best mortgage rates. If you are a Buyer/Borrower who is still on the fence (or if you are a Real Estate Agent attempting to educate your "on the fence" Buyer), please review these trends and secure an historically low interest rate before it is too late.
The market closed Wednesday with a WORSENING to pricing (and will typically warrant a pricing adjustment by most Lenders). Wednesday's WORSENING resulted in a change of 15 basis points (bps).
The following chart shows the market activity for today (hint: upward activity is good, downward activity is bad):
The following chart shows market activity over the past 10 days (hint: green is good, red is bad):
The following chart shows market activity over the past 1 month:
Daily Interest Rate Snapshot (sample of rates from one of the country's largest Lenders...individual pricing will vary based on specific Borrower qualifications): NOTE: This Lender has quoted a 1.00% Origination Fee (1 Point) to accompany this pricing. It bears noting that this chart does not necessarily represent todays best mortgage rates.
Market Commentary
Market Analyst: Neil Trenerry
FNMA 30-Yr 3.5%
Previous close 103.000
Opened Down 0.06 @ 102.938
Key Economic Data:
EUR / USD 1.2893 Up 0.0030
USD / JPY 76.8835 Up 0.0585
GBP / USD 1.5438 Down 0.0001
Oil 101.78 Up 1.19
Gold 1,658.40 Down 1.50
Key Economic News:
Unemployment Improves.
Initial claims: 352k, Consensus 392k.
Continuing claims: 3.432m, Consensus 3.590m.
Building Starts and Permits down.
Starts (MOM): 0.657m, Consensus 0.690m.
Permits (MOM): 0.679m, Consensus 0.680m.
Consumer Price Index.
Index (MOM): 0.0%, Consensus +0.1%.
Index (YOY): +3.0%, Consensus +3.1%.
Index Ex Food & Energy (MOM): +0.1%, Consensus +0.1%.
Index Ex Food & Energy (YOY): +2.2%, Consensus +2.2%.
Advice:
With the Improvement in the unemployment numbers and Consumer Price Index, I would expect the market to weaken, even with the building starts and permits coming in lower.
My position on MBS changes to neutral ( Sell long position).
Market Analyst: Dan Rawitch:
Here is the link to today's video http://ratewatch.com/ratewatchnow.html
Quite the mixed bag of news today...Bonds being dragged down by:
* Technicals- this market was overbought
*Jobless Claims
*Great Auctions in Spain and France
I am not sure this correction is over and can see testing 102 on the 3.5's. For now, watch 2% yield on the 10 year. If we hold that, we could avoid the rest of the MBS sell off.
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