MBS RECAP: New Highs For Treasury Yields; MBS Outperform

By: Matthew Graham

Bond markets began the day under pressure from decent economic data in Europe and the continuation of generally negative momentum coming off last week's FOMC Announcement.  Treasuries had it worse than MBS as the former were more directly affected by a busy day corporate debt issuance.  As a reminder, this hurts bonds in general by creating more supply in the market, and Treasuries specifically due to the hedging strategies commonly involved (i.e. corporate debt issuers often sell Treasuries to effectively "lock their rate").

The day's only data was ISM Manufacturing, which came in at 50.1 versus a median forecast of 50.2.  This isn't a big enough beat to cause any meaningful additional weakness for bonds, and the market movement continued to suggest the corporate debt story was the bigger consideration.

On a positive note, while we did lose ground today, bonds did show a good amount of resilience in the way they held on to a ceiling in yields.  10's bumped up against 2.18 frequently and seemed to be uninterested in venturing much higher.  On the other hand, 10's also hit 2.167 twice during the day and clearly weren't interested in going any lower either.


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
101-01 : -0-03
FNMA 3.5
104-03 : -0-01
FNMA 4.0
106-15 : +0-00
Treasuries
2 YR
0.7570 : +0.0290
10 YR
2.1760 : +0.0303
30 YR
2.9460 : +0.0214
Pricing as of 11/2/15 5:40PMEST

Today's Reprice Alerts and Updates
A recap of Alerts and Updates provided to MBS Live subscribers.
9:02AM  :  Bond Markets Holding Ground After Europe-Inspired Weakness

MBS Live Chat Highlights
A recap of featured comments from the Live Discussion on the MBS Live Dashboard.
Brent Borcherding  :  "No more than 4 financed to get cash out on Fannie."
Jason York  :  "Investor and second home borrowers with five to ten financed properties are ineligible for cash-out refinance transactions unless all of the delayed financing exception requirements are met. (See Delayed Financing Exception below and B2-2-03, Multiple Financed Properties for the Same Borrower.)"
Brent Borcherding  :  "You can cash out up to 6 properties with Freddie, just changed last month."
Ted Rood  :  "not sure how # of properties impacts deal, however"
DIRK POSTUPACK  :  "client on phone owns 9 properties....what is max cash out on an NOO 1 unit....70?"
Compliance is Watching Me  :  "not necessarily a rule, but most lenders require it this way."
Kevin Danforth  :  "VA loan the vet needs to be listed as the borrower correct? I have a file I am switching over from conventional to VA and the spouse is listed as borrower and vet is coborrower and I am thinking I will have to correct"
Tom Bartlett  :  "I have a loan that is still waiting to be registered a week after submission. It is VA and we cannot lock until registered to underwriting...thanks TRID."