Saturday, 13th March 2010.

Posted on Wednesday, 3rd March 2010 by chrisjones

Markets: Flat.  No change.  Rates hover at 5% and a bit below.  15-year loans are at 4.25% and thereabouts, 5/1 ARMS are 4% or a shade lower.
Analysis: A piac nem tud melyik iranyba menni, ugyhogy semmisem tortenik.  If I write the same thing I’ve been writing for the past month, it gets old, even for [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 17th February 2010 by chrisjones

Markets: We’re off 12bps, which is a bit less than what we gained yesterday.  Rates hang out right at 5% (fractionally more on some programs, fractionally less on others).  SOmething interesting to note: the 15-year loans are operating at their biggest spread in a decade - the 15 year fixed loan is currently selling at [...]

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Posted on Friday, 29th January 2010 by chrisjones

Markets: We’re trading in a very narrow channel this week, and no news is good enough or bad enough to get us out of it.  Our benchmark 4.5% FNMA 30-year bond is off 3bps, meaning it’s flat for all intents and purposes, exactly as it has been for the past week.  We successfully weathered another [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 21st January 2010 by chrisjones

Markets: A slow burn downward has reversed itself, and the market has now gained ground four of the past five days.  This keeps rates firmly at 5%, and even lower than that on some programs for those with great credit.
Analysis: It just doesn’t appear that there is any steam in the bond selloff.  The latest [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 30th December 2009 by chrisjones

I don’t vent.  I don’t blow up.  I think that kind of negative emotion is counterproductive and I fight it.  Still, I’m mortal.  Sue me.
The enemy of growth is uncertainty.

I am a gardener some of the year, in my spare time, and I have about a hundred houseplants, and I’ve learned a few things from [...]

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