Daily Newsletter: Mortgage Rates Inch Lower; New Indicator says Housing Healthy, Downturn Unlikely; More Cities Seeing Flattening Home Prices

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30 Year Fixed 3.73%   -0.02 15 Year Fixed 3.03%   -0.02 10YR Treasury 1.93%   -0.0244 FNMA 30YR 3.5 105.06   +0.17 FNMA 15YR 2.5 104.80   +0.11 View Today's Rates

Tuesday March 31, 2015 Mortgage Rate Watch - 4:46PM Mortgage Rates Inch Lower to End March; Volatility Ahead Mortgage rates fell again today extending a 3 day winning streak after shooting abruptly higher in the middle of last week. That damage hasn't been completely undone yet, and we shouldn ... MND NewsWire - 3:03PM New Indicator says Housing is Healthy, Downturn unlikely Nationwide said on Tuesday that the overall housing market is healthier than at any time since 2001 , the earliest point for which data is available and that data suggests there is ... MBS Commentary - 12:43PM MBS MID-DAY: Month End Sees Complex Dance Between Stocks, Bonds, and the Yield Curve After a relatively uneventful overnight session, bond markets began the day in slightly stronger territory. The shorter end of the yield curve began the day in much stronger territory ... MND NewsWire - 10:47AM Fewer Cities Bucking Flattening Home Price Trend Home prices flattened on a month-over-month basis in January even as annual prices continued to increase S&P Dow Jones Indices said today. The Case-Shiller indexes for national ... Update from MBA Tech Conference; What Percentage of Lenders is Testing TRID? MBS Day Ahead: Balancing Month-End Trading With Other Motivations Latest Video Closing Bell Exchange: Rate hike predictions Santelli: Fed won't remove punch bowl Will jobs report disappoint? More News from 'Around the Web' webfeeds.brookings.edu - 4:26PM Bernanke Blog Part 2: Why are interest rates so low? Bloomberg - 4:25PM Treasury Repo Rates Surge to 2012 High Amid Quarter-End Pressure CNBC - 2:56PM QE4? It's down to the US consumer Reuters - 2:55PM Wells Fargo gets U.S. approval to use internal models for capital WSJ - 12:44PM Why Ben Bernanke Isn't Buying the Secular Stagnation Thesis Calculated Risk Blog - 11:50AM A Comment on House Prices: Real Prices and Price-to-Rent Ratio in January Bloomberg - 11:49AM Blackstone Is Said to Raise $14.5 Billion for Real Estate Fund CNBC - 10:35AM First-time home buyer is back Bloomberg - 10:23AM Treasuries Post Longest Quarterly Streak of Gains Since 1998 Bloomberg - 8:37AM This New Indicator Shows There's No Bubble Forming in U.S. Housing WSJ - 8:35AM Fed's Lacker: 'Strong Case' to Be Made for June Rate Increase Bloomberg - 8:34AM No End in Sight for Bond Rally as ECB Spigot Spills Across Globe CNBC - 12:20AM Quarter ends, but volatility will not www.cfpbmonitor.com - 12:19AM CFPB issues FDCPA 2015 report CNBC - 12:19AM Fischer suggests shadow bank regulations Bloomberg - 12:16AM Treasuries Poised to Beat Stocks in March on Economic Outlook Bloomberg - 12:15AM Kuroda Bond-Buying Stimulus Seen Nearing Limit as Market Shrinks Calculated Risk Blog - 12:15AM Tuesday: Case-Shiller House Prices, Chicago PMI www.npr.org - 12:14AM Mass Tax Foreclosure Threatens Detroit Homeowners Today's Rates Best Execution Rate Change 30 Yr FRM 3.73% -0.02 15 Yr FRM 3.03% -0.02 FHA 30 Year Fixed 3.40% -0.10 Jumbo 30 Year Fixed 3.60% -0.02 5/1 Yr ARM 3.05% -0.08 Current Mortgage Rates » What are best-execution rates? Average Mortgage Rates Rate Points Change FHFA * 15 Yr. Fixed 3.47% 1.11 +0.02 30 Yr. Fixed 4.33% 1.33 -0.01 MBA ** 30 Yr. Fixed 4.01% 0.39 +0.05 15 Yr. Fixed 3.29% 0.30 +0.02 30 Yr. Jumbo 4.02% 0.27 +0.07 30 Yr. FHA 3.80% 0.20 +0.04 5/1 ARM 3.18% 0.40 +0.13 Freddie Mac ** 30 Yr. Fixed 3.69% 0.60 -0.09 15 Yr. Fixed 2.97% 0.60 -0.09 1 Yr. ARM 2.46% 0.40 +0.00 5/1 Yr. ARM 2.92% 0.40 -0.05 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 3.0 102.25 +0.17 30YR FNMA 3.5 105.06 +0.17 30YR GNMA 3.0 102.94 +0.20 30YR GNMA 3.5 105.34 +0.19 15YR FNMA 3.0 104.80 +0.11 15YR FNMA 2.5 102.66 +0.14 Treasuries Yield Change 2 YR 0.5591% -0.0275 5 YR 1.3750% -0.0390 10 YR 1.9301% -0.0244 30 YR 2.5434% -0.0106 Prices as of: 3/31/2015 4:31PM 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. Secondary Marketing Managers: If you are interested in gaining access to the most accurate real-time back-month TBA indications from Thomson Reuters and Tradeweb. Request More Information

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