Thursday, July 19, 2012

Mortgage bond prices near unchanged

Mortgage bond prices near unchanged Thursday morning holding mortgage rates steady from pricing Wednesday.

In news released at the open, weekly jobless claims printed at 386K and continuing claims, a summation of all receiving benefits, at 3,314K. Expectations were for weekly claims to increase 15K to 365K and continuing claims to fall 4K to 3,300K.

Traders are now waiting for stocks to begin trade at 9:30 am ET and for the release of existing home sales, LEI and the Philly Fed survey set for 10:00 am ET.

Things are heating up in Europe once again. Spain, the euro zones most precarious country, raised almost $4B in 2/5/7-year notes however it paid handsomely to do so. Buyers shunned the offering driving yields higher. Spain in once again at threshold of having to pay 7% in the secondary market to raise money, a rate that is considered unsustainable.

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