Ginnie Mae and the non-agency MBS sector led residential MBS over the $10 trillion mark in the second quarter. Mutual funds and foreign investors increased their holdings. (Includes two data tables.)

MBS purchase levels at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to disappoint lenders looking for help with interest rates, though prospects look better for September reporting.

The third-party analytics models used by bond traders now accept VantageScore 4.0 loans, but their methodologies were designed before the confusion around loan-level price adjustment grids.