Thursday, March 22, 2012

Three OIG Audits Include GSE Convention Spending, Oversight of Guidelines and Charitable Giving

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Mar 22, 2012 9:28AM

GSEs Spend $600K at MBA Convention Prompting OIG Review

This is the third of three evaluation reports released today by the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) regarding the oversight of activities of the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by FHFA. This evaluation concerns the GSEs participation in the 2011 Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Convention and Exposition. MBA's event was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago from October 9 to 12, 2011. The annual convention was attended...

Mar 22, 2012 3:44PM

Mortgage Rates Enjoy Second Stable Day After Sharp Increases

Mortgages Rates enjoyed a second day of doing something other than frantically rising or merely holding sideways. Rate offerings at most lenders improved just slightly though some lenders recalled initial rate sheets for moderate increases late in the day. This keeps Best-Execution at 4.0% but yesterday's thoughts on Best-Ex being more subjective at current levels remain in effect: 4.0% is advantageously priced at most lenders in terms of the relative cost or savings to move down or up in rate respectively...


Micro News

3:16 PM:

NMLS: New Federal Registry Resource Center Coming April 2

3:11 PM:

Illiquidity Starting to Drag Prices Down. Negative Reprice Risks...

3:05 PM:

Quick Comment On This Week's Fed Speeches

2:38 PM:

FED - Fisher Sees No Need For More Monetary Easing

2:35 PM:

FED - Bernanke Says US Economy Lacks Source of Demand

2:18 PM:

MBS/TSYs Generally Holding a Range. Slightly Weaker Into PM Hours

11:00 AM:

MBS Again Approaching Highs, Treasuries Try to Break Lower

10:22 AM:

Freddie Mac Weekly Rate Survey Rises to 4.08% vs 3.92% Previously

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Today's Comments

Frank Ceizyk

"Please all of you quit your whining and try to help your customers out before you give up. This program may not perfect, but it is a step in the right..."

Bryan/Mortgage Finance Group, Inc.

"A program that will allow an LTV over 100% with a 50 back end, but not a 10% LTV with a 60 back end is a program that was rolled out with no thoughts other..."

Wayne Brown

"I just got information by phone less than an hour ago from my new employer...so I won't state by name at this point. That said, he informed me that..."

Today's Q&A

"can a homeowner be his own general contractorin michigan"

"how can i get a job cleaning out reo homes"

"should i pay half a point to lock my rate for an extra 30 days or wait and see what happens?"