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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Yesterday bonds performed admirably by breaking back above the 200 day moving average!  Unfortunately, a monthly bond rollover caused the final price to sink back below the magica

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Still in a slow week for economic reports.  Yesterday, the Fed stated they would be continuing the emergency Fed Fund to banks and lenders.  This good news, along with contin

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Since this is a rather slow week in terms of scheduled economic reports, bonds will be taking direction from stocks this week.  Yesterday, bonds got off to a rocky start with oil

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Since this is a rather slow week in terms of scheduled economic reports, bonds will be taking direction from stocks this week.  With an apparent strengthening of the dollar and a

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Major Reports came out this morning and it looks like "good" news for bonds.  Unemployment ticked up .1% and non farm payrolls was a bit lower than expected.  Only "bad" news

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. No major reports due out today (the somewhat followed ADP report showed a sharp decrease in jobs - though their numbers are mostly off). Tomorrow there will be a spate of them.&nb

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. "New Quarter, old fears" - Headline for CNN/Money screams!  Suppose that's better then having new fears.  ISM Index is scheduled to be released at 10 AM.  This could be

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Oil is up, stock market down - bonds are confused.  The Midwest "Business Barometer" came in this morning higher than expected yet still in an "economic contraction".  This i

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Mess of reports this morning.  Biggest gaffe was the pundits being way off on personal income (though this could have something to do with the "economic relief package" that came

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Auto Sales came in slightly higher than expected, GDP came in exactly here pundits expected (a bit higher than last month), and Jobless Claims were higher than initially expected.

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Durable Goods Orders came in at expectations - though higher than last month.   Later today the Fed will be releasing a statement about how they think the economy is doi

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Consumer Confidence is on tap for this morning.  This coupled with the news of what the Fed will be doing in its regularly scheduled meeting has investors on edge.  Technical

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. With little economic news on tap for the next couple days, bonds will be looking to stocks for direction.  Technically speaking - the FNMA 6.0% 30 year bond is currently in the bo

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Little economic news on tap for today.  Big news yesterday in China raising its price of oil for its citizens.  This helped bring down the speculators a notch.  Stocks a

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Jobless claims came in today slightly higher than expected.  Other news out - the Philadelphia Index reported much lower than expected which still shows the NE as being in a contr

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Little scheduled economic news is due out today.  Bonds will be taking direction from stocks.  Due to certain negative news, stocks appear to be heading for the cellar so bon

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Building Permits and Housing Starts came in almost exactly where they were predicted to be.  Producer Price Index (PPI) came in higher than expected, though core PPI cam

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. News this morning is the New York state index for manufacturing has fallen rather drastically.   With manufacturing levels off, perhaps inflation isn't so bad - NOT.  Bo

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in slightly higher than expected due to the ever increasing price of oil.  The Core CPI (stripping out volatile energy and food prices) came in at

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Good Economic News - Retails Sales came in markedly higher than expected for last month.  Pundits think this has to do with the stimulus checks that were sent out.  The other

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Though the stock market ended mixed yesterday, the bond market was roiled by fears of inflation as well as the possibility of an interest rate hike.  Though this hike will occur a

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Again, the rise of oil is not only center stage on the world scene but affecting things here at home with increased fears of inflation.  Since major news won't be coming out till

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Big news of the week for bonds will be coming out on Thursday and Friday.  Until that time, bonds will be taking direction from stocks and oil.  After the drubbing that stock

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. The bond took a real beating yesterday with positive retail reports and an improvement in unemployment reports.  Mixed news this morning - earning rose, non farm payrolls came in

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Initial Jobless Claims came in this morning lower than expected.  This coupled with an apparent good start in the stock market this morning is going to potentially push bonds lowe

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Private Company ADP reported an increase of 40,000 in jobs of the client companies which allow them to keep track of such things (some folk put more credence into this report than

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. No news on tap for today.  Yesterday, the stock market took a tumble and bonds celebrated.  Markets around the world are mixed today.  Probably the biggest news is the D

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Finally some good news across the board.  Personal Spending, monthly personal consumption, annual personal consumption, and personal income all came in exactly in line. 

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Gross Domestic Product came just under expectations but was higher than last quarter.  The indicator which figures the entire system (not just a basket of certain goods)

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Consumer Confidence came in at 16 years low and New Home Sales were slightly up.  With stock market going higher today on oil coming down is causing bond prices to fall and mortga

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Continued doom and gloom relating to oil.  Two major airlines announced today that their coveted plans to increase direct flights to China have been postponed due to the ever incr

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. The most recent Fed meeting minutes released yesterday showed the Fed definitely thinking the economy will weaken further.  To combat recession, they are even signalling an end to

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. The most recent Fed meeting minutes is scheduled to be released today.  Though not expecting to make much news, it does has the potential for creating opportunities this afternoon

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. The Producer Price Index (PPI) - the cost of supplies to produce consumer goods - came in below expectations.  Though stripping out the volatile energy and food prices, the core P

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Little news will be coming out today which could significantly impact stock and bond markets.  Friday saw a significant gain for bonds until the end of the day when it all petered

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Building Permits and Housing Start showed an improvement in today's report - initially this send rates rocketing up slightly.   The Consumer Sentiment Index came in lower tha

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. More "good" news this morning.  Jobless Claims are reporting an increase and a regional manufacturing index came in lower than expected.  Capacity Utilization and Production

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Consumer Prices came in below target expectations today.  Both the regular and the core were lower than expected.  This rather tame reading on inflation, while normally good

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Retail sales came in exactly on target.  Unfortunately, sales minus the ever fluctuating auto industry came in better than expected.  This will give encouragement to the stoc

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. With a week filled with all sorts of economic news, bonds will be taking guidance from stocks today.  Oil is up, negative earnings reports are still coming out, and a lethargy sti

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation. Balance of Trade for last month was slightly lower.  Yesterday, two European banks left interest rates unchanged as a fight against inflation.  This helped bonds here in the U.S. tick up a few notches.  The new record prices of oil and further problems in the insurance industry have not been helping bonds this morning. Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond has risen in recent days over all key moving averages.  Though a good level of support is beneath bonds, they appear to have a very tough resistance level immediately above - the 2.5- 3 year ma

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Jobless Claims came out this morning slightly lower than expected.  Is this a statistical blip or is the economy improving?  Productivity increased but hours worked decreased.  Finally, labor costs increase but not as much as expected.  All of this points to unsure times ahead.Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond is at the bottom of a tight trading range.  Depending on how the stock market reacts will better determine the direction of bonds.   Until the current range is broken, then the best bet is to      

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.One more day till scheduled economic news comes out - Jobless Claims.  We are still in a mode where bonds are taking directions from stocks and other rumors coming out (FNMA not doing well, oil going up resulting in higher inflation therefore bonds are going to take a hit and rates get worse, etc).  Until that time as actual news is release - hang on tight!Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond is caught in a very tight trading range.  This is actually good because rates aren't really changing much.  Until the current range is broken, then the

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Big news of the day - Fannie Mae reports a bigger loss than expected and cuts its quarterly dividend.  While this isn't exactly going to roil the markets, it certainly shows the pain is not yet over.  Since there aren't any economic reports due out til Thursday (Jobless Claims), bonds will be taking direction from stocks (which in pre market trading appear to be going down).  Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond is currently above all moving averages but still trading in a tight range.  Unless there is really dire news popping up, bonds w

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Other than news of Microsoft not buying Yahoo for $46 billion, the only other real news is the non-manufacturers or services index came in higher than expected.  Other than a brief dip in bond prices things are back up to par and taking their lead from the stock market.  Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond have rebounded above all moving average this morning.  Even after the initial shock of better than expected losses in the job market, the updated numbers for the past few months show continued weakness in the economy.  With all this volatility

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Unemployment has dropped - to 5.0%, Jobless claims weren't as bad as expected - still lost 10,000 jobs.  What does this mean?  Interest rates going up today.Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond have dropped to a key level of support this morning.  While it was down as much as almost 100 bps down, the bond has rebounded back.  With all this volatility, now would be a good time to continue to      Lock your interest rate.  To learn why one should Float or Lock -          

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.The Fed did it - dropped the target rate .25% to 2.00% and hinting a pause will occur.  In other news - Personal Spending, Personal Consumption, and Jobless Claims were all up, while personal income dropped.  Though this is all essentially a wash, bonds appear to be reacting favorably to the news.Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond is now above all moving averages.  Now we see how it will react to the various ceilings of resistance looming on the horizon.  With the bond also neither overbought nor oversold, it could go either way.  Pundits

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Consumer Confidence came in lower than expected - though after Friday's report somewhat expected.  Tomorrow, The Fed will more than likely be dropping rates another .25%.  Since they are the Fed they will be privy to the reports being released Wed morning of GDP, Inflation and Employment. Yesterday, bonds improved slightly with continued fear in the market place over concerns of a recession and what the Fed might be doing on Wednesday.Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond rose above the 10 and 50 day moving average.  The next target is the 100 day

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Consumer Confidence is on tap for tomorrow.  Wednesday, The Fed will more than likely be dropping rates again on Wednesday.  Since they are the Fed they will be privy to the reports being released Wed morning of GDP, Inflation and Employment. Today bonds will be taking direction from stock as well as doing some guess work of their own on what Bernanke and Company will do tomorrow.Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond is below all moving average with the exception of the 200 day - about a 100 bps below current levels (a lot of room to fall).  With

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Consumer Sentiment was expected to be at levels higher than last month but ended up falling to less than what it was las month.  Neither terrific nor horrific, but in an environment starved for news on where to take direction - an overall positive note for bonds.Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond though still below the 50 & 100 day moving averages is making a move to break above these key ceiling levels.Today is another great day to      Lock your interest rate. To learn why one should Float or Lock -    &

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Good (Bad) News of the day - Durable Goods Orders were down 3/10% as opposed to the expected 1/10% rise.  The Bad (Good) News of the day - Jobless Claims fell 30,000 jobs.  It appears the markets are putting more credence into the 2nd bit of news.  The bond market has been open less than 1.5 hours and we are already down 50 bps.    Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond has fallen below the 50 day and 100 day moving averages.  If nothing good comes up today, rates could rise accordingly.Today is another great day to  &

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Yesterday Existing Home Sales came in right on target which did little to sway the markets.  The moving of the bond market was the continue bearish behaviour of Wall Street.  Only scheduled reporting of the day has to do with oil inventories.  This affects the bond market very little.  The only thing that might adversely affect the market this morning is the news that Bank of America will be ceasing the infamous Option Arm program once Countrywide Financial is safely under its umbrella.    Technically speaking - the FNM

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.We are still a day from any regular scheduled economic reports.  Therefore bonds will be taking some direction from stocks today.    Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond bounced above the 50 day and 100 day moving average yesterday.  This morning the bond dropped down to test the 100 day moving average (currently higher than the 50 day by 13 basis points (bps).  The bond has currently rebounded from the 100 day but an eye will be kept on it throughout the day to insure positive news.Take advantage of what happened yesterday and &nb

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Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Regularly scheduled market reports are not due out again until Wednesday.  Bonds will be taking direction from other sources.   Friday proved this out.  The day started with a significant increase in the stock market and predicable response from the bonds of opening low and staying low most of the day.  The last few hours of Friday resulted in bonds improving significantly.  This appears to have been precipitated because the LIBOR (London InterBank Offer Rate) had been understated.  This increase and restating of the LIBOR caused a flight into

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Talk about jittery for all the wrong reasons.  Citibank reported earnings this morning.  They had a bigger loss than expected, $13 billion in write downs, but because some revenue streams came in higher stocks across the board are way up in pre-market trading.  Yesterday, the Fed had another auction that went quite well.  In fact, so well that bonds actually ended up yesterday.  Since there won't be any economic reports coming out until next Wednesday, look for bonds to take their lead from stocks. Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bo

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.All the rosy news that came out yesterday was for not.  The stock market really liked it all, therefore since bonds move in the opposite direction of stocks, bonds took a major hit yesterday.  One major item coming out was the Beige book report.  This can act as a guide to how the Fed will be seeing and (re)acting at their next meeting at the end of the month.  The report indicated the continued problems with housing, credit and weak employment continue to plague the economy.Last bit of bad news - the Philadelphia Fed Index came in quite a bit higher than exp

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Chart courtsey of www.blogmybrain.com( Click to enlarge )Hello Folks !! Early in the morning, I found any interesting financial blog "Blog My Brain" that is providing a list of greatly undervalued stocks ordered by Short % of Float. Above list (Updated: 4/14/2008) is just a small part of the list that you can find within the website www.blogmybrain.com. For many people the term "Short Squeezes " is something unknown, but basically Short Squeezes happen when a bearish stock turns around, creating elevated prices that forces the shorts to buy to cover, which in turn takes the price even higher. So, if you are interested to know which the stocks are presently more vulnerable to this situation check the list above. Stocks have been ordered by Short % of Float, the Low, Med, and High IRR repres

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Producer Price Index was released just a little bit ago.  The overall index jumped by nearly .5% while the core index (excluding food & energy) remained constant.  The NY Manufacturing survey showed a surprise jump as well.  This show increased strength in one corner of the country and a possible increase in inflation.  Both of these while balance out in the market are overall bad for bonds.Confirmation (or rebuttal) of these numbers won't come out until tomorrow's Consumer Price Index (how much is passed on to consumers).Technically speaking - th

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.This morning the Retail Sales report came out with a mixed bag.  All sales was actually a 1/10% higher than expected, where as the less volatile report that doesn't include auto sales was lower by 1/10%.  This couple with what appears to be a very weak start to Wall Street due to banking concerns could lead to a better start for bonds.Technically speaking - the FNMA 5.5% 30 year bond has bounced back into a narrow trading range.  If stocks actually tank today, a significant rise could occur.  As always, things depend on your personal style.  Pundits