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| S&P futures | 3,996 | 0.75 |
| Oil (WTI) | 77.00 | 0.34 |
| 10 year government bond yield | 3.98% | |
| 30 year fixed rate mortgage | 6.84% |
Stocks are flattish this morning on no real news. Bonds and MBS are flat.
Jerome Powell wrapped up a second day of testimony yesterday, and his prepared remarks were more or less the same as what he said on Tuesday in front of the Senate. After the markets took his remarks as a signal the Fed was planning to hike by 50 basis points in March, he added the comment that “I stress that no decision has been made on this” when referring to the Fed’s preparedness to increase the pace of rate hikes. Of course we will get the jobs report tomorrow, and the CPI next Tuesday which will determine what the Fed does in two weeks.
The Fed Funds futures see a 75% chance of a 50 basis point hike, although the 2 year yield has fallen this morning on some labor data that shows a potential softening in the data.
US employers announced 77,770 job cuts in February, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. This is down 24% from January, but multiples of last year’s number. Technology is the leader in job cuts. The YTD number is the highest since 2009. “Certainly, employers are paying attention to rate increase plans from the Fed. Many have been planning for a downturn for months, cutting costs elsewhere. If things continue to cool, layoffs are typically the last piece in company cost-cutting strategies,” said Andrew Challenger, Senior Vice President of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. “Right now, the overwhelming bulk of cuts are occurring in Technology. Retail and Financial are also cutting right now, as consumer spending matches economic conditions. In February, job cuts occurred in all 30 industries Challenger tracks,” he added.
Challenger and Gray basically compile a list of press releases and use that to come up with their numbers. So if Meta announces a bunch of job cuts, that gets counted, but if a small firm does a layoff without a press release that doesn’t factor into the numbers. So there is a big firm bias here.
Separately, Initial Jobless Claims rose to 211,000 last week.
Agile Trading, a fintech which facilitates MBS and TBA trading, just executed the first fully automated assignment of trade transaction. Agile’s platform helps mortgage lenders get better execution on hedges and introduces broker-dealers to a deep pool of TBA and MBS liquidity.
Loan Depot announced fourth quarter earnings yesterday. Since the company exited wholesale, the declines are rather dramatic. Funded volume in the fourth quarter came in at just under $7 billion, a decline of 43% compared to the third quarter and 80% on a year-over-year basis. Loan Depot is focusing on reducing expenses and targeting the first time homebuyer and diverse communities.
“Vision 2025 focuses on creating long-term shareholder value by creating an innovative, purpose-driven, and durable mortgage origination footprint focused on first-time homebuyers and serving diverse communities. We believe that a laser focus around putting first-time buyers into homes positions loanDepot to be a customer’s trusted resource when making key homeownership and other financial decisions. We also continued to centralize our operational functions and unified the leadership of our origination channels to sharpen our focus and accelerate the implementation of Vision 2025.
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All Things in Moderation 
Yeah, why bother?
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evidence, schmevidence
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I mean, we all know what happened, amiright?
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More people watch Joe Rogan than Tucker, and he was going through it too.
The cat is out of the bag.
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McWing:
Yeah, why bother?
He must really be a moron, if he thinks this makes them look better than having deliberately hidden the footage.
I am reminded of Dan Rather’s defense back when CBS was caught using obviously manufactured evidence in its hit piece on Bush prior to the 2004 election and he blamed his producer. He basically outed himself as little more than an empty-headed teleprompter reader who did literally nothing to get and knew nothing about the very story he was taking credit for.
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And then all the other network anchors gave him an award.
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Taibbi’s statement to the House committee:
https://www.racket.news/p/my-statement-to-congress
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The Censorship-Industrial Complex.
Perfect description.
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Weird.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/02/26/ukraine-finds-stepping-up-mobilisation-is-not-so-easy?twclid=23pbzghpoxjj8hwkhaycy8n986&utm_campaign=a.io_fy2223_q4_conversion-cb-dr_prospecting_global-global_auction_na&utm_medium=social-media.content.pd&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=conversion.content.non-subscriber.content_staticlinkad_np-steppingupmobilisation-n-mar_na-na_article_na_na_na_na&utm_term=sa.arc-is&utm_id=twq43003
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I guess it’s the new meme to deny our lying eyes on Jan 6. I can’t quite get there but you’re welcome to. I saw it…………..did you? Who cares what anyone else says…………….it’s politics all day everyday, but we saw it right?
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well for 2 years we have only heard the left’s narrative. like being on a jury where only the prosecutor is allowed to talk.
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So I guess you think something else happened? We were there and Tucker’s edited version doesn’t tell the truth. If the defense is Fox then I think you lose the fight. Some things are just obvious IMO Feel free to embarrass yourself though…………sorry, not sorry!
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i know that the left’s narrative of what happened can’t be trusted. so let’s hear the other side.
and the last thing i have ever worried about is what the left thinks of me.
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I get your disdain for what the left thinks of you……….I kind of care less about what you guys think of me. The “Left’s narrative” was supported by not only people like Barr, Pence’s lawyers. Rebulican state election officials etc………etc The election was legitimate and anyone who says otherwise is lying! It’s time to get back to policy differences and put Trump liars behind us…………..
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well, after the russian collusion hoax, the covid lies, the jan 6 lies, and the lies about censorship, the government (all of it) is suspect.
so, might as well see what else they are lying about.
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lms:
We were there…
You were inside the Capitol on Jan 6? If so, how is it that you have avoided prosecution?
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It is so ironic to see people who supported the J6 Committee decry Tucker’s “edited version”. And to claim that he is trying to get people to “deny their lying eyes” by literally showing them video that the J6 committee withheld. Absolutely zero self-awareness.
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If you listen to the former Chairman of the committee, Bennie Thompson, the committee members didn’t even look at the videos, so how would they know they were edited?
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I get a kick out of the left’s argument that if you don’t believe them, then you must believe Trump then.
It never dawns on them that they are both full of shit.
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