Daily Newsletter: Mortgage Rates Rise at Fastest Pace in Weeks; Housing Market's Mixed Signals; Bad Month for New Home Sales

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30 Year Fixed 4.20%   +0.04 15 Year Fixed 3.33%   +0.04 10YR Treasury 2.51%   +0.0397 FNMA 30YR 3.5 102.09   -0.36 FNMA 15YR 2.5 103.22   -0.16 View Today's Rates

Thursday July 24, 2014 Mortgage Rate Watch - 4:10PM Mortgage Rates Rise at Fastest Pace in Weeks Mortgage rates moved higher today at the fastest pace since July 3rd as bond markets began backing away from more anxious levels associated with last week's geopolitical headlines. ... MND NewsWire - 3:23PM Housing Market Sending Mixed Signals -Freddie Mac Freddie Mac said today that its Multi-Indicator Market Index or MiMi for May is sending out mixed signals to the housing market. While more markets entered their stable range of housing ... MND NewsWire - 11:24AM New Home Sales Decline from Downgraded May Numbers New homes sales retreated in June from the very strong performance reported for May; a performance that turns out to have been less strong. A joint release from the Census Bureau and ... MBS Commentary - 3:59PM MBS RECAP: Week's Monotonous Trend Broken as Bond Markets Slide For the past 4 sessions, bond markets have traded a narrow range near their best levels of the year. This effectively began with the geopolitical risk rally on the 17th. It's not entirely ... Banks and Lenders Buying Each Other & Financial Services Companies - Does it Make Sense? Modest Housing Recovery Will Continue -Fannie Latest Video Santelli Exchange: Faux housing recovery Home prices too high? Zillow seeking acquisition of Trulia: Report More News from 'Around the Web' House Oversight - 3:40PM Oversight Requests Justice Department Documents on Mortgage-Backed Securities Settlements webfeeds.brookings.edu - 3:39PM Why Easing Education Debt Won't Necessarily Help the Economy The Big Picture - 3:02PM States with the Most Negative Equity in Residential Real Estate NAFCU - 3:02PM CFPB proposes changes to HMDA reporting Business Week - 2:25PM Zillow Said to Be Seeking to Buy Rival Real-Estate Site Trulia Market Watch - 2:11PM Greenspan says bubbles can't be stopped without 'crunch' CNBC - 2:02PM Sodastream trader makes 3000% profit Washington Post - 2:02PM Wonkblog: These two charts explain why it's unusually tough right now to find a newly built home Bloomberg - 2:02PM Blackstone Said to Prepare $700 Million Sale of Home Debt - Bloomberg CNN - 12:58PM Global economy still limping along National Housing Conference - 12:54PM Fair Housing and the Data Paradox Google News - 11:21AM Settling debts with other people's money: Use of investor funds in lender settlements Bloomberg - 11:21AM JPMorgan Seen Facing Bigger Fight With Mortgage Investors - Bloomberg SEC - 11:21AM Morgan Stanley to Pay $275 Million for Misleading Investors in Subprime RMBS Offerings CNBC - 10:32AM New home sales throw cold water on jobless party WSJ - 10:31AM Standards are Tighter, Sure. But is It Really That Hard to Get A Mortgage? freddiemac.mwnewsroom.com - 10:21AM Mortgage Rates Remain Near Year's Low Reuters - 9:06AM Jobless claims fall to lowest level since early 2006 Bloomberg - 9:04AM D.R. Horton Earnings Fall as Company Incurs Impairment Charges - Bloomberg www.npr.org - 9:03AM How High Debt From The Housing Collapse Still Stifles Our Economy Today's Comments MBS Live Chat - 11:20AM "anyone have a quick link for agency jumbo matrix..." MBS Live Chat - 11:45AM "http://mndne.ws/Oz02he..." MBS Live Chat - 11:46AM "hi balance is on pg 6..." MBS Live Chat - 12:18PM "question - i have a self employed borrower who is refusing to provide his business returns. says that all the info we need is on his personal returns. i know that he owns more than 25%, is there any way around not having to get them? I cant think of anything so figured I would throw it out there...." MBS Live Chat - 12:21PM "BB, yes but good luck getting an UW to go along with it today..." MBS Live Chat - 12:21PM "Fannie Mae Seller Guide B3-3.2-01..." MBS Live Chat - 12:21PM "The lender may verify a self-employed borrower's employment and income by obtaining from the borrower copies of his or her signed federal income tax returns (both individual returns and business returns) that were filed with the IRS for the past two years (with all applicable schedules attached). Alternatively..." MBS Live Chat - 12:28PM "fair game or not cool? Greenlight loans sends my client an email two hours after I order the online payoff from Nationstar stating they received his payoff request and will be calling him within 24 hours to discuss financing needs..." Today's Rates Best Execution Rate Change 30 Yr FRM 4.20% +0.04 15 Yr FRM 3.33% +0.04 FHA 30 Year Fixed 3.75% +0.00 Jumbo 30 Year Fixed 4.04% +0.04 5/1 Yr ARM 3.23% +0.01 Current Mortgage Rates » What are best-execution rates? Average Mortgage Rates Rate Points Change FHFA * 15 Yr. Fixed 3.56% 1.13 -0.10 30 Yr. Fixed 4.37% 1.39 -0.16 MBA ** 30 Yr. Fixed 4.32% 0.16 +0.04 15 Yr. Fixed 3.40% 0.22 -0.02 30 Yr. Jumbo 4.24% 0.16 -0.02 30 Yr. FHA 4.02% -0.03 +0.03 5/1 ARM 3.40% 0.22 -0.02 Freddie Mac ** 30 Yr. Fixed 4.13% 0.60 +0.00 15 Yr. Fixed 3.26% 0.60 +0.03 1 Yr. ARM 2.39% 0.40 +0.00 5/1 Yr. ARM 2.99% 0.50 +0.02 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 98.22 -0.39 30YR FNMA 3.5 102.09 -0.36 30YR GNMA 3.0 100.17 -0.34 30YR GNMA 3.5 103.06 -0.33 15YR FNMA 3.0 103.22 -0.16 15YR FNMA 2.5 100.95 -0.16 Treasuries Yield Change 2 YR 0.4919% +0.0204 5 YR 1.6995% +0.0514 10 YR 2.5052% +0.0397 30 YR 3.2971% +0.0359 Prices as of: 7/24/2014 4:29PM EST Current MBS / Treasury Prices » MBS and Treasury data provided by Thomson Reuters. 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