Daily Newsletter: Mortgage Rates Nearly Unchanged in 2015; Seasonal Uptick in Distressed Sales

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30 Year Fixed 4.09%   -0.02 15 Year Fixed 3.28%   -0.02 10YR Treasury 2.27%   -0.0249 FNMA 30YR 3.5 103.19   +0.23 FNMA 15YR 2.5 103.06   +0.19 View Today's Rates

Thursday December 31, 2015 Mortgage Rate Watch - 2:33PM Mortgage Rates Nearly Unchanged in 2015 Mortgage rates had an interesting year to say the least. After almost universal consensus on a move toward higher rates the first few months of the year instead saw a precipitous drop ... Pipeline Press - 12:41PM Bank M&A; Pending Home Sales Primer; Lender Form Changes - Who Can Keep Track? Given my Resolutions from a year ago, and looking back at 2015, I've got today to get skinny, save money, learn French, and undrink 987 bottles of wine. On a more serious note, plenty ... MBS Commentary - 8:51AM MBS Day Ahead: Early Close and Relative Lack of Data. Excited Yet? Today is a very exciting day for bond market participants. Most of them are on vacation, or at the very least, in a vacation-like state of mind. The latter refers to the magical phenomenon ... MND NewsWire - 1:46AM October sees Seasonal Uptick in Distressed Home Sales Share Sales of distressed properties made up 10.2 percent of total home sales in October CoreLogic said on Tuesday. The October number represented a slight seasonal increase of 0.2 percent ... Improving Mortgage Performance equals Best MiMi in 15 Months Pending Home Sales Continue to Slow; Prices, Inventory Faulted Latest Video Chicago PMI 42.9 Santelli: 5-year making new highs Ed Keon: What's driving rates lower... More News from 'Around the Web' CNBC - 12:48PM The Fed in 2016: Here's what you need to know Calculated Risk Blog - 10:28AM Chicago PMI declines to 42.9 Calculated Risk Blog - 10:28AM Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims increase to 287,000 freddiemac.mwnewsroom.com - 10:23AM Mortgage Rates Top Four Percent CNBC - 8:27AM Highest earners' tax rates up sharply CNBC - 8:26AM 2015 was the hardest year to make money in 78 years Calculated Risk Blog - 1:40AM Expect November Year-over-year Change for Case-Shiller Index slightly higher than in October Bloomberg - 1:32AM Biggest Investors Say Beware the Bond Market as Fed Tightens Today's Rates Best Execution Rate Change 30 Yr FRM 4.09% -0.02 15 Yr FRM 3.28% -0.02 FHA 30 Year Fixed 3.75% +0.00 Jumbo 30 Year Fixed 3.92% -0.01 5/1 Yr ARM 3.03% -0.01 Current Mortgage Rates » What are best-execution rates? Average Mortgage Rates Rate Points Change FHFA * 15 Yr. Fixed 3.45% 1.20 -0.01 30 Yr. Fixed 4.12% 1.43 -0.05 MBA ** 30 Yr. Fixed 4.14% 0.45 +0.00 15 Yr. Fixed 3.39% 0.35 +0.00 30 Yr. Jumbo 4.01% 0.30 -0.01 30 Yr. FHA 3.90% 0.31 -0.01 5/1 ARM 3.25% 0.36 +0.02 Freddie Mac ** 30 Yr. Fixed 3.96% 0.60 -0.01 15 Yr. Fixed 3.22% 0.60 +0.00 1 Yr. ARM 2.68% 0.20 +0.01 5/1 Yr. ARM 3.06% 0.40 +0.03 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 3.0 100.00 +0.23 30YR FNMA 3.5 103.19 +0.23 30YR GNMA 3.0 101.31 +0.23 30YR GNMA 3.5 104.09 +0.22 15YR FNMA 3.0 103.06 +0.19 15YR FNMA 2.5 100.81 +0.17 Treasuries Yield Change 2 YR 1.0517% -0.0275 5 YR 1.7582% -0.0361 10 YR 2.2694% -0.0249 30 YR 3.0150% -0.0184 Prices as of: 12/31/2015 2:06PM 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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