As one executive put it: “January was slow, February was lower, and I can’t tell how March will be yet.”

Annaly padded its lead as the top REIT MBS investor, thanks, in part, to its acquisition of Hatteras Financial in the third quarter of 2016…

Then again, Trump has been known to surprise people.

Challenges include higher interest rates, which are translating into lower production volume in 2017…

For the full year, GSE seller repurchases totaled just $1.101 billion, a record annual low…

The nonagency/nonprime MBS market is expected to get some attention at the SFIG show, but not much…

With Republicans now in control of the White House and both houses of Congress, Hensarling plans to make even more cuts to regulations for rating services.

Piper analyst Kevin Barker and his team estimate that so far in 1Q17, the average refi volume is down 26 percent from fourth quarter levels.

California mortgages account for the large chunk of collateral at 41.2 percent. Texas is a distant second at 10.4 percent.

Bradd Gold of Au Consulting LLC noted that in the year prior to their federal takeover, Fannie and Freddie sold $10 billion of GSE junior preferred.