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Stocks are higher after the Consumer Price Index fell last month. Bonds and MBS are up.
Consumer prices rose 0.4% MOM and 4.9% YOY in April. This was slightly below street estimates. Ex-food and energy, prices rose 0.4% MOM and 5.5% YOY. Shelter was the biggest driver of the increase, followed by used cars and trucks. The shelter component should pretty much disappear as we reach the 2022 peak in house prices in June.
Mortgage applications increased 6.3% last week as purchases rose 5% and refis increased 10%. “Mortgage applications responded positively to a drop in rates last week, as the Fed signaled a potential pause at the current level for the federal funds rate in anticipation of inflation slowing and tightening financial conditions that will slow economic and job growth. Mortgage rates for all surveyed loan types decreased over the week with the 30-year fixed rate at 6.48 percent,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist. “Purchase applications increased 5 percent last week but were still more than 30 percent below last year’s level. Lower rates from week to week have helped buyers in the market, but limited for-sale inventory remains a challenge for many homebuyers. Refinance activity jumped 10 percent to its highest levels since September 2022, although there is only a small pool of borrowers who can benefit from refinancing with rates at these levels.”
NY Fed Chairman John Williams said that it will take a couple of years for inflation to get back to the Fed’s 2% target. He also cautioned against forecasts for rate cuts this year: “First of all, we haven’t said we’re done raising rates,” Williams told CNBC’s Sara Eisen during a Q&A session after his speech. “We’re going to make sure we’re going to achieve our goals and we’re going to assess what’s happening in our economy and make the decision based on that data. I do not see in my baseline forecast, any reason to cut interest rates this year.”
Loan Depot originated $5 billion in the first quarter of 2023, which was a 23% decrease from the fourth quarter. That said, gain on sale margin increased substantially from 145 to 243 basis points. “The first quarter of this year remained challenging for the housing market as virtually all participants grappled with the impacts of ongoing volatility in mortgage interest rates, persistent cost inflation and the lack of available homes for sale,” said President and Chief Executive Officer Frank Martell. “Although the affordability and availability of new and existing home sales remains challenging for the industry overall, we expect to continue to benefit from seasonally higher revenues and our ongoing cost reduction program. Assuming the expected benefits of continuing seasonal volume increases and cost productivity, we expect to deliver improving financial results over the course of the second and third quarters of 2023.” The company is forecasting for gain on sale to improve again in the second quarter to a range of 240 to 280 basis points.
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Fascinating and probably pretty disconcerting to a lot of Congress people. Separation of power and all that.
How long has this been going on and will any Democrats push back. Lotta D butt-hurt when DWS was having her troubles with her laptop and that weird Pakistani family. Never did get to the bottom due to the pushback.
I mean, I don’t expect anything as these people stay bought, but still.
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How long has this been going on and will any Democrats push back
Of course they won’t push back. The only principle the left has is that only it should be in power.
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You’re right of course, the DWS/laptop/extortion/Pakistani intel being the perfect example. Complete suppression in that instance.
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Jay Cost has a revelation.
I like Jay but maybe fetishizing the office of the President isn’t the right approach. Think Milton Friedman, not Honor and Integrity.
“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people, the important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
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Smart thinking as both are past proven winners.
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Politico is D party propaganda.
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Punchbowl News now has a finance newsletter as well:
https://punchbowl.news/archive/the-vault-jamie-dimon-debt-ceiling/
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This sound like the sort of lede that could have been written in 1968 about the Vietnam War.
“The Counteroffensive
The future of the democratic world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a stalemate with Russia and drive the country backwards—perhaps even out of Crimea for good.
By Anne Applebaum and Jeffrey Goldberg”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/counteroffensive-ukraine-zelensky-crimea/673781/
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But the data for Global Warming?
https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common
Rock. Fucking. Solid.
Bank on it.
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Now that the social sciences are 100% in liberal activist mode, I would bet that the numbers there are even worse.
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