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• The Day Ahead: Global Stock Sell Off Leads Investors On Flight To Safety

  Created: Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:00

  U.S. equities are indicated lower and the flight to safety is back in style after stock markets sold off around the world in the overnight session. Concerns surrounding government policies intended to curb inflating real estate values led a sell off in Ch...

• The Day Ahead: Turmoil Continues as Financial Reform Moves Forward

  Created: Friday, 21 May 2010 03:00

  Equity futures continue sliding this morning after the stock market was dealt a crushing blow yesterday. The S&P 500 dropped 3.9% ― it’s biggest one-day decline in more than a year ― while the Dow fell 3.6% and the Nasdaq slid 4.1%. This mor...

• The Day Ahead: European Headlines Pressure Stocks Lower Before Jobless Claims, LEI, Philly Fed

  Created: Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:00

  The stock market is indicated lower this morning as investors remain weary about Europe’s debt crisis. Overnight, Japanese GDP rose at a slower-than-expected annualized rate of 4.9% in the first quarter, a Chinese finance minister called for the U.S...

• MBA: Delinquency Rate Rises in First Quarter. Foreclosures Running At Record Pace

  Created: Wednesday, 19 May 2010 03:00

  The Mortgage Bankers Association today released the First Quarter 2010 National Delinquency Survey (NDS) results. Seasonally adjusted mortgage delinquency rates increased again during the first quarter of 2010, but a decrease in non-seasonally adjusted da...

• State Housing Finance Agencies Deal With Higher Delinquency and Foreclosure Rates

  Created: Friday, 14 May 2010 03:00

  Moody's Investors Service said last week that U.S. State Housing Finance Agency (HFA) single-family whole loan programs continued to experience significant increases in both delinquencies and foreclosure rates during 2009. However, the service said th...

• The Day Ahead: Stocks Cautiously Lower Ahead of Data

  Created: Friday, 14 May 2010 03:00

  Equity futures are sharply lower this morning ahead of several key data points for the U.S. “The whiff of uncertainty is still in the air on this Friday morning, ahead of a handful of U.S. economic data,” said economists at BMO. “Indeed,...

• The Day Ahead: Jobless Claims, Bond Auction, Fed Speakers

  Created: Thursday, 13 May 2010 03:00

  Equity futures suggest sentiment is mixed ahead of the open on Thursday after a broad and steady climb in the markets yesterday pushed the S&P 500 up 1.37%. Ninety minutes before the opening bell, Dow futures are off 12 points to 10,864 and S&P 50...

• The Day Ahead: Stocks Suffer Ahead of Treasury Auction

  Created: Tuesday, 11 May 2010 03:00

  The broad stock market rally from yesterday appears to have fizzled out this morning, as equity futures are looking sharply lower ahead of a quiet data in new economic data. The S&P 500 jumped 4.4% yesterday as domestic stocks had their best single-da...

• Fed Paper Explores Financial Literacy and Mortgage Delinquencies

  Created: Friday, 07 May 2010 03:00

  The roots of the mortgage crisis have been microscopically examined by everyone from economists to consumer groups and volumes of conten has been written on underwriting guidelines, irrational exuberance, greed, and hubris. Now comes a study which offers ...

• Revisiting Big Picture Fundamentals and the Bond Market's Motivations

  Created: Thursday, 06 May 2010 03:00

  What a day. What a week. What a month. Much as happened recently to distract the bond market from it's core strategic motivations. I think we need to hit the reset button and re-evaluate the environment. This post revisits economic fundamentals and qu...

• Commercial Delinquencies RISE: Carpe Diem Short Sale Investors

  Created: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 03:00

  If you have one of those magic watering-hole sticks it should be pointing and shaking at commercial real estate short sale opportunites.  If not, throw it away…it just ain’t workin’.  The latest numbers for CRE mortgage delinquencies are on the ri...

• Commercial Delinquencies RISE: Carpe Diem Short Sale Investors

  Created: Monday, 12 April 2010 03:00

  If you have one of those magic watering-hole sticks it should be pointing and shaking at commercial real estate short sale opportunites.  If not, throw it away…it just ain’t workin’.  The latest numbers for CRE mortgage delinquencies are on the ri...

• Short Sales: A NEW Ball Game

  Created: Monday, 12 April 2010 03:00

  During the housing “boom” a default borrower would get a short-sale approval 90% of the time as long as they qualified and the purchase amount met the lenders minimum net requirements.  Now, that number has been cut in half. Why? Primary lenders are ...

• Commercial Delinquencies RISE: Carpe Diem Short Sale Investors

  Created: Monday, 12 April 2010 03:00

  If you have one of those magic watering-hole sticks it should be pointing and shaking at commercial real estate short sale opportunites.  If not, throw it away…it just ain’t workin’.  The latest numbers for CRE mortgage delinquencies are on the ri...

• Short Sales: A NEW Ball Game

  Created: Monday, 12 April 2010 03:00

  During the housing “boom” a default borrower would get a short-sale approval 90% of the time as long as they qualified and the purchase amount met the lenders minimum net requirements.  Now, that number has been cut in half. Why? Primary lenders are ...

• Short Sales: A NEW Ball Game

  Created: Wednesday, 07 April 2010 06:01

  During the housing “boom” a default borrower would get a short-sale approval 90% of the time as long as they qualified and the purchase amount met the lenders minimum net requirements.  Now, that number has been cut in half. Why? Primary lenders are ...