Daily Newsletter: Mortgage Rates Higher After Mid-Day Volatility; Pending Sales Miss Expectations; Firm Fined for Steering to Affiliate; Fannie Short Sale Changes

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30 Year Fixed 4.09%   +0.01 15 Year Fixed 3.25%   +0.00 10YR Treasury 2.47%   +0.0248 FNMA 30YR 3.5 102.92   -0.31 FNMA 15YR 2.5 103.89   -0.22 View Today's Rates

Thursday May 29, 2014 Mortgage Rate Watch - 3:49PM Mortgage Rates Slightly Higher After Mid-Day Volatility Mortgage rates began the day in even better shape than yesterday, but market volatility prompted most lenders to raise rates in the afternoon . That leaves today's rate sheets in just ... MND NewsWire - 10:02AM Pending Home Sales Rise Less Than Expected Pending home sales in April rose above those in the previous period for the second month in a row. The National Association of Realtors® said that contract signings in April increased ... MND NewsWire - 1:47PM Firm Fined for Steering Consumers to Affiliate Company RealtySouth, the largest real estate firm in Alabama, was ordered to pay a half-million dollar penalty this week for failing to provide consumers with adequate transaction disclosures ... MND NewsWire - 1:31PM Real Estate Pros can Soon Negotiate Short Sales Directly With Fannie Real estate agents will soon be able to negotiate terms of a short sale directly with Fannie Mae rather than communicating through servicers. This is one of the improvements the company ... With Decline in Foreclosures, CoreLogic Sees End in Sight Refinance Share of Originations Fell to 37 Percent in April - Ellie Mae Kroll on Non-Bank Mortgage Companies; Free-For-All in Servicing Market RealtyTrac Counts More Markets with New Peak Home Prices Latest Video Q1 GDP (revised) down 1.0%; jobless claims drops 27,000 Santelli Exchange: Big rate debate Santelli: Something has changed More News from 'Around the Web' The Huffington Post - 4:53PM My Response to the Financial Times time.com - 4:53PM Tiny Houses With Big Ambitions Market Watch - 3:14PM Pimco's McCulley: Yellen doing a 'fantastic job' Calculated Risk Blog - 3:14PM A comment on GDP Revisions: No Worries CNBC - 1:25PM Fed's Lacker: Expect a positive GDP reversal in the second quarter Reuters - 1:24PM U.S. probes possible overcharging by banks on foreclosure fees Bloomberg - 1:24PM 'Too Damn Low' Bond Yields Lead Tisch to Buy Stocks Begrudgingly - Bloomberg Reuters - 12:00PM Shareholder anger simmers worldwide over bankers' pay Fannie Mae - 11:45AM News Release - Fannie Mae Announces Expansion of ... CNBC - 10:41AM Low volatility—calm before storm? freddiemac.mwnewsroom.com - 10:07AM Fixed Mortgage Rates Lower for Fifth Straight Week Bloomberg - 10:07AM BlackRock's Rieder Say Low-Yield Treasuries Still a Value - Bloomberg CNN - 9:11AM U.S. economy shrunk, but it's not a big deal blog.redfin.com - 9:10AM If Sellers List, Buyers Will Come CNBC - 9:09AM Bond yields slip to multi-month lows; where next? Today's Comments MBS Live Chat - 1:37PM "Thanks MBS Live. Your most recent alert helped me beet a reprice worse by about 5 minutes...." MBS Live Chat - 1:52PM "What's with the sudden plummet? Profit taking? Our company just shut down our lock desk..." MBS Live Chat - 1:58PM "Hey Chip, My only worthwhile thought with the bounce is the stuff about there being "room" to move higher in rate while still remaining in low territory overall. The part in the last 2 alerts about 2.47% 10yr yields is kinda the thesis there. Beyond that, it's just sort-of the nature of the beast that..." MBS Live Chat - 2:01PM "thankfully, I don't foresee rates moving 1% higher by early July this year...." MBS Live Chat - 2:02PM "Can't relive that? That was a good time last year...." MBS Live Chat - 2:07PM "lock or float it out?..." MBS Live Chat - 2:08PM "just depends on the time frame of your outlook. Bigger picture, not much reason to freak out moving up to 2.45. All we can really advise on is intraday risk, which is high. Longer term, no way to know, but the trend is certainly still technically your friend. The catch is that your clients could lose..." Today's Rates Best Execution Rate Change 30 Yr FRM 4.09% +0.01 15 Yr FRM 3.25% +0.00 FHA 30 Year Fixed 3.75% +0.00 Jumbo 30 Year Fixed 3.91% +0.01 5/1 Yr ARM 3.24% -0.01 Current Mortgage Rates » What are best-execution rates? Average Mortgage Rates Rate Points Change FHFA * 15 Yr. Fixed 3.80% 1.10 +0.13 30 Yr. Fixed 4.67% 1.44 +0.13 MBA ** 30 Yr. Fixed 4.31% 0.15 -0.02 15 Yr. Fixed 3.42% 0.06 -0.01 30 Yr. Jumbo 4.23% 0.16 -0.01 30 Yr. FHA 4.04% -0.45 -0.02 5/1 ARM 3.13% 0.19 -0.01 Freddie Mac ** 30 Yr. Fixed 4.12% 0.60 -0.02 15 Yr. Fixed 3.21% 0.50 -0.04 1 Yr. ARM 2.41% 0.40 -0.02 5/1 Yr. ARM 2.96% 0.30 +0.00 Current Mortgage Rates » * FHFA averages are updated monthly. ** Mortgage Bankers Association (each Wednesday) and Freddie Mac (each Thursday) averages are updated weekly. Secondary Markets MBS Price Change 30YR FNMA 3.0 98.89 -0.31 30YR FNMA 3.5 102.92 -0.31 30YR GNMA 3.0 100.56 -0.39 30YR GNMA 3.5 103.84 -0.38 15YR FNMA 3.0 103.89 -0.22 15YR FNMA 2.5 101.61 -0.17 Treasuries Yield Change 2 YR 0.3789% +0.0078 5 YR 1.5293% +0.0481 10 YR 2.4679% +0.0248 30 YR 3.3286% +0.0361 Prices as of: 5/29/2014 4:30PM EST Current MBS / Treasury Prices » MBS and Treasury data provided by Thomson Reuters. Mortgage News Daily and MBS Live! are exclusive re-distributors of Real Time Thomson Reuters Mortgage Information. 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