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| Last | Change | |
| S&P futures | 4,394 | 1.2 |
| Oil (WTI) | 101.89 | 3.59 |
| 10 year government bond yield | 2.68% | |
| 30 year fixed rate mortgage | 5.15% |
Stocks are flattish as we kick off earnings season. Bonds and MBS are up.
Inflation at the wholesale level rose 11.2% in March, according to the Producer Price Index. Ex-food energy and trade services prices rose 7%. Over half of the increase was driven by rising energy costs. These numbers were hotter than what the Street was looking for, but bonds seem to be behaving this morning. You can see below we are at extremely elevated levels historically:
Note that inflation is not just a US phenomenon. UK inflation surged to a 30 year high as well.
Mortgage applications fell by 1.3% last week as purchases rose 1% and refis fell by 5%. Refis are down 62% on a YOY basis. “Mortgage rates across all loan types continued to move higher, with the 30-year fixed rate exceeding the 5-percent mark to 5.13 percent–the highest since November 2018,” said Joel Kan, MBA Associate Vice President of Economic and Industry Forecasting. “Refinance activity as a result declined to the slowest weekly pace since 2019.”
Separately, the MBA is forecasting that 2022 originations will come in at $2.58 trillion compared to roughly $4 trillion in 2021.
MBS spreads continue to widen, along with bid-ask spreads in the TBA market. I assume this is being driven by fears of the Fed’s exit from the MBS market. While we are not at the wide levels of early 2020, MBS spreads are wider than they have been historically. This would indicate that mortgage rates might move lower if the 10 year stabilizes here.
JP Morgan reported earnings this morning. Earnings fell on a YOY and QOQ basis as provisions for loan losses increased. Mortgage banking volume fell 37% YOY to $25 billion. The home lending segment reported profits of $1.2 billion, up 8% compared to Q421 and down 20% on a YOY basis. Rising servicing income offset declining gain on sale and volumes. The stock is down about 3% on the open.
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Interesting how the mask guidance in the MSM changes depending on political needs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/12/philadelphia-was-wrong-mask-mandate-covid-ba2-omicron-spike/
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NoVA, you may find this of interest:
“Zelensky’s Prayer
On the meaning of “We are still here.”
By Franklin Foer
April 13, 2022, 6 AM ET”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/ukraine-war-zelensky-passover/629544/
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Good read:
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The jump in LGBTQ cases is IMO a function of the victimhood totem pole.
Little Johnny sucks at sports and doesn’t feel like he fits in at school. Johnny thinks maybe I am more like the girls. Immediately, little Johnny goes from being a nobody to being a rockstar, as every woke mother and teacher validates little johnny’s new persona in order to prove her woke bona fides.
Little Johnny comes home and says to his parents that the teachers say he should be taking puberty blockers. Johnny’s parents erupt and call the school, where they are told that this is none of their business.
Little kids are all about pleasing adults. The idea that they could be steered wrong by solipsistic, albeit well-meaning teachers and administrators isn’t even considered.
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This seems to be a phenomenon is white, upper middle class areas. I’m not really seeing the emergence of large numbers of tranny kids out of poor or minority schools. Am I missing it?
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I bet there is an income skew going on here.
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I suspect you are dead on about that.
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This is hilarious. I’m sure that Trump would agree with her that filing financial disclosure forms is unsafe and likely to be used against the filers.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/13/blm-co-founder-financial-disclosures-triggering-and-unsafe/
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This thread represents the libertarian/fiscal hawk worldview. The idea that government does things to empower itself and disempower the electorate.
Liberals/progressives view that as the role of government, the idea that the collective leadership via elected officials is more equitable with resources than the individual. Ultimately I don’t think it’s reconcilable. From a Libertarian standpoint, it’s over and time to separate and start over. Liberal/progressives require the entire populace to comply as an “escape hatch” country drains too many people and their human capital from the collective.
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The left is about to re-discover the term “bracket creep” however it won’t be the rich that feel it this time.
The left worked so hard trying to get 51% of the population off the tax rolls, thinking they would never lose another election. Guess what? All of those voters are about to see their wages increase due to inflation and are about to get introduced to the tax code.
The left played themselves and are about to raise taxes on their base and not the rich.
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That’s a really good point. But the Willy Sutton rule still applies – that’s where the money is.
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They won’t get Republicans to raise taxes. So taxes aren’t going up legislatively. But they will increase due to inflation.
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KosKidz trying to square the Frank James/Brooklyn shooting circle.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/13/2091801/-Brooklyn-subway-shooting-suspect-s-videos-reveal-a-Black-man-in-the-grip-of-far-right-extremism
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“His YouTube account, now deleted, offered a kind of chronology of his descent into far-right extremism:”
It takes real effort to be this actively stupid.
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They are putting in the effort.
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If only Republicans voters would embrace open borders.
We’ll just have to replace the electorate!
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This made me laugh but for me it was buying my own underwear.
After that I stopped being disappointed in receiving socks and underwear as gifts.
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