MBS Week Ahead: Action-Packed 3.5 Day Week Ends with NFP

By: Matthew Graham

Pound for pound, this is one of the busiest weeks of the year.  There are relevant economic reports every day as well as Fed speakers and the last trading day of Q2.  Wrapping it all up (sort of) is June Nonfarm Payrolls.  This time, however, it arrives on Thursday due to the Independence Day holiday, and it's followed by several other moderately important reports, all before the day ends 3 hours early.

All this transpires against a bond market backdrop with slightly higher than average stakes.  After holding ground without going over 2.66 in June, 10yr yields rallied over the past two weeks.  They've reached a bit of a decision point where rallies usually either bounce or go sideways.  Infrequently, momentum can continue through the technical barriers in the chart below, but rarely in a strong and impressive way.

If we hope to see a strong and impressive continuation of the recent rally, we'd need nearly an entire week of disappointing economic data.  Even then, several of this week's key reports could still come in fairly downbeat without doing much to alter the bigger picture.  For instance, ISM Manufacturing could fall quite a bit without violating its longer term parabolic bounce seen here:

A slightly better bet for an early hint of weakness could come from today's Pending Home Sales data.  This report's M.O. is to serve as an advance indicator of Existing Home Sales data.  The bounces here are still fairly young, and any meaningful downturn in Pending Home Sales could make the past few months merely look like a correction in a longer-term downtrend that started with the mid-2013 rate spike.


MBS Pricing Snapshot
Pricing shown below is delayed, please note the timestamp at the bottom. Real time pricing is available via MBS Live.
MBS
FNMA 3.0
98-20 : +0-00
FNMA 3.5
102-24 : +0-00
FNMA 4.0
105-31 : +0-00
Treasuries
2 YR
0.4607 : +-0.0003
10 YR
2.5232 : -0.0088
30 YR
3.3516 : -0.0114
Pricing as of 6/30/14 7:27AMEST

Tomorrow's Economic Calendar
Time Event Period Forecast Prior
Monday, Jun 30
9:45 Chicago PMI * Jun 63.0 65.5
10:00 Pending homes index May 97.8
Tuesday, Jul 01
10:00 ISM Manufacturing PMI * Jun 55.9 55.4
10:00 Construction spending (%)* May 0.5 0.2
Wednesday, Jul 02
7:00 Mortgage Market Index w/e 348.1
8:15 ADP National Employment (k)* Jun 203 179
9:45 ISM-New York index * Jun 630.1
10:00 Factory ex-transp mm (% )* May 0.5
10:00 Factory orders mm (%) May -0.2 0.7
Thursday, Jul 03
8:30 International trade mm $ (bl)* May -45.0 -47.2
8:30 Non-farm payrolls (k)* Jun 210 217
8:30 Unemployment rate mm (%)* Jun 6.3 6.3
8:30 Private Payrolls (k)* Jun 210 216
8:30 Initial Jobless Claims (k)* w/e 314 312
10:00 ISM N-Mfg Bus Act * Jun 61.4 62.1
10:00 ISM N-Mfg PMI * Jun 56.3 56.3
Friday, Jul 04
0:00 U.S. Independence Day *