Daily Newsletter: NAR Warns on Pending Sales; Rates Dent Mortgage Apps; Robots and Underwriting; Fed Announcement

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30 Year Fixed 4.34%   -0.01 15 Year Fixed 3.71%   +0.00 10YR Treasury 2.72%   -0.0036 FNMA 30YR 3.5 100.95   +0.02 FNMA 15YR 2.5 100.48   -0.05 View Today's Rates

Wednesday January 31, 2018 MND NewsWire - 10:49AM Although Pending Sales Up, NAR Warns of Tax Law Implications Pending home sales finished off the year in a more upbeat tune. Although the December gain in sales, reported on Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) was a slim ... MND NewsWire - 8:40AM Rising Rates Finally Make a Dent in Mortgage Apps Mortgage activity suffered its first downturn of 2018 last week, breaking a three-week winning streak. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports that applications for both refinancing ... MND NewsWire - 12:47PM Robots Coming for Your Job? Why Automated Underwriting is Good Loan applications are increasingly submitted and approved via a cell phone and Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac constantly refer in press releases to their respective automated systems. ... Mortgage Rate Watch - 2:56PM Mortgage Rates Hold Steady Despite Upbeat Fed Mortgage rates managed to hold steady today, on average (some lenders were slightly better while others were slightly worse) despite a more upbeat economic assessment from The Federal ... Differences Between Previous and Current FOMC Statements Upcoming Events; DOJ and Eagle Home; Compliance "Fun" With CRM's MBS Day Ahead: State Of The What? Bonds Turn Attention to Supply and The Fed Latest Video Former Wells Fargo CEO: Interest rates have been manipulated by the Fed for too long Fed leaves rates unchanged Pending home sales up 0.5% in December More News from 'Around the Web' Bloomberg - 3:23PM Homebuilders Just Had Their Nastiest Seven-Day Run in Two Years CNBC - 3:23PM Traders are still expecting two to three rate hikes this year after Fed statement Reuters - 2:26PM D.R. Horton's affordable homes unit to get boost from first-time buyers Federal Reserve - 2:25PM Federal Open Market Committee reaffirms its "Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy" CNBC - 2:25PM Fed leaves rates unchanged but gives more aggressive inflation expectations CNBC - 12:58PM How financial markets performed during the Yellen Fed years CNBC - 12:43PM Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer: The risk to this bull market is an aggressive Fed CNBC - 12:30PM Expect to see commodities rise because the dollar will keep falling, analysts say Bloomberg - 11:22AM U.S. Raises Longer-Term Debt Sales as Budget Deficit Worsens CNBC - 10:39AM Consumer protection bureau structure upheld in blow to Trump's deregulation efforts Calculated Risk Blog - 9:15AM ADP: Private Employment increased 234,000 in January Reuters - 8:22AM ECB won't be too hasty in ending bond buys: Coeure www.politico.com - 8:22AM Lawmakers question price tag of Trump's SOTU infrastructure pitch Reuters - 8:14AM BOJ hoses down market speculation of early stimulus exit CNBC - 8:11AM Fed expected to leave rates unchanged, may sound hawkish after Yellen's final meeting Today's Rates Best Execution Rate Change 30 Yr FRM 4.34% -0.01 15 Yr FRM 3.71% +0.00 FHA 30 Year Fixed 4.10% +0.00 Jumbo 30 Year Fixed 4.44% -0.01 5/1 Yr ARM 3.35% -0.01 Current Mortgage Rates » What are best-execution rates? Average Mortgage Rates Rate Points Change FHFA * 15 Yr. Fixed 3.45% 1.22 -0.02 30 Yr. Fixed 4.14% 1.32 -0.01 MBA ** 30 Yr. Fixed 4.06% 0.38 -0.05 15 Yr. Fixed 3.34% 0.38 -0.02 30 Yr. Jumbo 3.96% 0.20 -0.04 30 Yr. FHA 3.98% 0.35 -0.04 5/1 ARM 3.14% 0.31 -0.12 Freddie Mac ** 30 Yr. Fixed 4.15% 0.50 +0.11 15 Yr. Fixed 3.62% 0.50 +0.13 1 Yr. ARM 2.68% 0.20 +0.01 5/1 Yr. ARM 3.52% 0.40 +0.06 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 98.00 -0.02 30YR FNMA 3.5 100.95 +0.02 30YR GNMA 3.0 99.08 -0.02 30YR GNMA 3.5 101.77 -0.02 15YR FNMA 3.0 100.48 -0.05 15YR FNMA 2.5 98.48 -0.05 Treasuries Yield Change 2 YR 2.1486% +0.0203 5 YR 2.5256% +0.0168 10 YR 2.7200% -0.0036 30 YR 2.9470% -0.0285 Prices as of: 1/31/2018 4:11PM 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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