Friday May 18, 2012. 9:20am MDT
Interest rate trend (Current):
HigherLock Recommendation:
Locking bias
Interest rates remained the same again today and lender credits improved on the 30 & 20 year products but remained the same on the 15 & 10 year fixed products (from yesterday morning). Stocks are rebounding this morning from yesterday's losses, causing Mortgage bonds to worsen. The lack of economic reports today is also hindering mortgage bonds. With MBS's still above both levels of resistance and worse so far this morning, it appears our rally has stalled and thus we change our recommendation to a locking bias. MBS analysts are also concerned about a reversal and recommending locking in the short term, but feel a cautious float in weeks to come is still ok. Any positive economic news in the U.S. or Europe will most likely cause interest rates to increase quickly, thus creating high levels of volatility in the next week or two. Have a great day and nice weekend!
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