What the Markets Are Doing Today: Both the bond and mortgage backed securities markets opened in positive territory after the released of this morning's economic news The Dow opened up 24 points from yesterday's close NASDAQ opened up 4 points from yesterday's close The 10 Year Treasury Bond open
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05/29/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond market and mortgage backed securities markets as well as the stock markets opened in positive territory this morning. However, all markets are losing their gains of the morning The Dow opened up 62 points from yesterday's close NASDAQ opened up 14 points
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05/28/2009
The ‘bubble' in the mortgage backed securities (MBS) markets blew up yesterday. So what happened? While there are a number of factors that affect mortgage rates, let's look at a few underlying causes of what happened yesterday. The FNMA 30-Year 4.0% Coupon dropped 227 basis points (2-9/32) on 5/2
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05/28/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond market and mortgage backed securities opened in positive territory while the stock markets opened in negative territory this morning. However, prices of bonds and mortgage backed securities reversed course and are continuing their downward spiral (higher
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05/27/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond market and mortgage backed securities opened in positive territory while the stock markets opened in negative territory this morning. However, both the bond and stocks markets revered course on a much better then expected economic report. The Dow opened
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05/26/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond market, mortgage backed securities and the stock markets all opened in positive territory this morning following news that as Lowe's beat earnings estimates, as Goldman Sachs analysts put Bank of America on its "buy" list, and as signs point to an easing
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05/18/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond market, mortgage backed securities and the stock markets all opened in positive territory this morning following a better than expected economic reports. The Dow opened up 31 points from yesterday's close NASDAQ opened up 5 points from yesterday's close
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05/18/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond market, mortgage backed securities and the stock markets all opened in positive territory this morning following a better than expected economic report. The Dow opened up 23 points from yesterday's close NASDAQ opened up 10 points from yesterday's close
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05/14/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond market and mortgage backed securities opened in positive territory this morning. Meanwhile, the stock markets opened in negative territory this morning following a worse then expected retail sales report. The Dow opened down 134 points from yesterday's c
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05/13/2009
What the Markets Are Doing Today: The bond and mortgage backed securities markets opened in negative territory while the stock markets opened in positive territory this morning. The Dow opened up 60 points from yesterday's close NASDAQ opened up 11 points from yesterday's close The 10 Year Treasu
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05/13/2009