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Bernanke Says Status of GSEs in "No-Man’s Land". Discussing Reform, Reorganization, Reassurance

No Comments 25 February 2010

Posted To: MND NewsWire We've been discussing the fate of the GSEs quite often over the past few months.

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Bernanke Says Status of GSEs in "No-Man’s Land". Discussing Reform, Reorganization, Reassurance

No Comments 25 February 2010

Posted To: MND NewsWire We've been discussing the fate of the GSEs quite often over the past few months.

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Bernanke Says Status of GSEs in "No-Man’s Land". Discussing Reform, Reorganization, Reassurance

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30-year mortgage rates drop to 4.93% What does this mean for Bay …

No Comments 22 February 2010

The following Oakland Tribune article reports on a drop in mortgage rates for 30 year fixed rate mortgages to under 5%. This drop is in spite of the recent Federal Reserve Board policy change for trading Mortgage Backed Securities.

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MBS LUNCH: Not the First Step in the Fed’s Exit Plan

No Comments 19 February 2010

Posted To: MBS Commentary I keep hearing economists and analysts say, “This is the first step in the Fed's exit plan”…”The Fed is starting to remove accommodative policy”….”The Fed is pulling out” (don't laugh Family Guy fans) Where have these market watchers been for the past 6 months? This is not the first step in the Fed's exit plan, it is one of many that have already been taken! The discount rate hike just happens to be a bit more shocking than others

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The Day Ahead: Consumer Level Inflation, MBA Delinquency Survey, Discount Rate Reactions

No Comments 19 February 2010

Posted To: MND NewsWire Global equity markets have reacted negatively to the Federal Reserve’s decision to hike the discount rate by 25 basis points to 0.75% after the closing bell yesterday. The Fed Funds rate remains in the zero to 0.25% range and in the policy statement the bank reiterated that rates will be kept low for “an extended period.” But no matter ? stocks in Asia and Europe sank in reaction, including by more by than 2% in Japan and Hong Kong

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MBS CLOSE: Fed Raises Discount Rate. Not A Huge Deal!

No Comments 18 February 2010

Posted To: MBS Commentary The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced that in light of continued improvement in financial market conditions it had unanimously approved several modifications to the terms of its discount window lending programs. Like the closure of a number of extraordinary credit programs earlier this month, these changes are intended as a further normalization of the Federal Reserve's lending facilities

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Fed’s Exit from MBS Program on Course as Planned

No Comments 11 February 2010

Posted To: MND NewsWire The Federal Reserve yesterday released an outline of their plan to remove the financial marketplace from the supportive influences of accomodative policy. Part of this outline included a statement on the fate of the Agency MBS Purchase Program. Here are the comments: “The Federal Reserve purchased $300 billion of Treasury securities and currently anticipates concluding purchases of $1.25 trillion of agency MBS and about $175 billion of agency debt securities at the end of March” Plain and Simple : NO CHANGE IN TONE FROM BERNANKE ON THE END OF THE MBS PURCHASE PROGRAM

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