What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond and mortgage backed securities (MBS) markets both opened in negative territory this morning. Meanwhile, the stock markets opened in positive territory following China's comments that raised concerns that they will begin selling bonds. The Dow opened up 3
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03/14/2009
Prices of Treasuries and Mortgage Backed Securities (MBSs) (rates down!) as well as stock prices have been climbing the past couple of days. Yesterday, China reported that their exports fell last month, and adds to the growing evidence that the global economic slump is getting worse. There was a
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03/12/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond, mortgage backed securities and stock markets all opened relatively flat this morning despite stronger than expected economic reports. The Dow opened down 15 points from yesterday's close NASDAQ opened down 3 points from yesterday's close The 10 Year Tre
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03/12/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond market and mortgage backed securities opened in slightly negative territory this morning while the stock markets opened up. The Dow opened up 15 points from yesterday's close NASDAQ opened up 4 points from yesterday's close The 10 Year Treasury Bond open
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03/11/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond market and mortgage backed securities opened in slightly negative territory this morning while the stock markets opened up. The Dow opened up 15 points from yesterday's close NASDAQ opened up 4 points from yesterday's close The 10 Year Treasury Bond open
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03/11/2009
Prices of Treasuries and Mortgage Backed Securities (MBSs) fell sharply (rates up) in early trading again this morning. Meanwhile, stock prices continued to advance. Traders are focused on the auction of $63 billion in notes and bonds scheduled for later this week. Investors fear that the governm
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03/11/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond market opened in negative territory while mortgage backed securities (MBSs) and the stock markets opened up this morning following a favorable earnings report from Citigroup: The Dow opened up 116 points from yesterday's close NASDAQ opened up 26 points
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03/11/2009
Prices of Treasuries and Mortgage Backed Securities (MBSs) fell sharply (rates up) in early trading this morning. Meanwhile, stock prices advanced. Last week, the Dow lost almost 700 points. Meanwhile, mortgage backed securities (MBS) prices rose almost a full point (rates fell) as money flowed o
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03/11/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond market opened in negative territory while mortgage backed securities (MBSs) and the stock markets opened up this morning: The Dow opened down 58 points from Friday's close NASDAQ opened down 8 points from Friday's close The 10 Year Treasury Bond opened u
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03/11/2009
Prices of Mortgage Backed Securities (MBSs) rose while Treasury bonds fell this morning. Then MBS prices then fell (rates up) in early morning trading before rebounding later in the morning. Meanwhile, stocks advanced after the release of the Employment report showed that 651,000 jobs were lost i
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03/06/2009
