| Apr 11, 2012 4:43PM Recent improvements in Mortgages Rates hit a snag today , and rose to fall roughly in line with Friday's levels. However, with the exception of the past 3 days, Friday's rate sheet offerings were the strongest since early March. There continues to be a greater-than-normal variability between lender offerings. Yesterday's rate sheets were strong enough for us to say the following: The Best-Execution Conventional 30yr Fixed Rate is probably best viewed as 3.875% for flawless scenarios, and 4.0% for... Apr 11, 2012 10:48AM Last week's head-fake selloff and subsequent rally have put MBS prices back in sight of their early-February (and all-time) highs. This in turn has forced investors to look for ways to improve their investment results and carry-adjusted returns. Research over the last decade has demonstrated that a number of attributes result in improved prepayment performance-in a market where the weighted average dollar price is in the area of 104, this means that investors want MBS with slower prepayment speeds...
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