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MBS CLOSE: 4.5 At Par Signals Profit-Takers

By admin | December 30, 2009

pPosted To: a href="/mortgage_rates/blog/"MBS Commentary/a/pMBS opened and traded the AM at their best levels of the day with Par on the 4.5 even couched in a supportive guise. But as the noon hour approached, it was back to yesterday#39;s closing levels for MBS as profit taking came, saw, and kicked a moderate amount of posterior right up until the auction. During the same time, Tsy#39;s opened with similar strength, and backed up even more than MBS relative to yesterday#39;s close of 3.81, but at just over 3.82, not by much. The pre-auction selling was not such an unfamiliar circumstance, but the lack of volatility thereafter was. Bonds rallied immediately followed the auction and never again came close to those weak points of the day. In fact, they put in level after miniature level of support as MBS pushed back to close at 99-30 with tsy#39;s...(a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/mortgage_rates/blog/126599.aspx"read more/a)pdiv style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"strongForward this article via email:/strongnbsp;nbsp;a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/126599/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;"Send a copy of this story/a to someone you know that may want to read it./div/pimg src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=126599" width="1" height="1"

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