By: Ryan Schuette 

The latest chapters in the unfolding euro-zone debt saga include the prospects for new government formations and promises by global financers that additional rescue funds will soon be forthcoming.  How global investors interpreted these latest developments will drive their appetite for the Treasury’s $16 billion 30-year bond offering on the ...

Be increasingly vigilant with your pipeline risk management strategies.  It is a very treacherous market right now, very headline driven.

Signs that the euro-zone debt crisis has begun to engulf Italy will likely drive solid global demand for safe-haven investments today, supporting the prospects for steady mortgage interest rates and ramped up...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to provide early warning of possible enforcement actions

Subjects under investigation to be given opportunity to respond to CFPB concerns

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today outlined plans to provide advance notice of potential enforcement actions to individuals and firms under...

After another week of confusion and turmoil in Europe, global investors are abandoning whatever hopes they had for a near-term conclusive solution to the euro-zone’s debt crisis.

Disaster may have temporarily been averted when Greece, under heavy pressure from other members of the European Union, chose to form a new government in a last ditch...

The Labor Department reported earlier this morning the national jobless rate unexpectedly dipped to 9.0% in October – even as the headline jobs number posted a gain of 80,000 – well below forecasts calling for a gain of 95,000 or more.  The August and September count of new job creation was revised higher by 102,000.

The Labor...

Against a backdrop of dramatically shifting headlines from Europe the Labor Department reported earlier this morning that the number of Americans standing in line to file claims for first-time jobless benefits dropped by 9,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 397,000.  This is the first time in five weeks the seasonally adjusted number has ...

11/02/2011 By: Ryan Schuette

The Federal Reserve restrained itself from announcing any new monetary or fiscal stimulus measures, deciding instead that it will continue to reinvest principal payments for agency debt in mortgage-backed securities while it keeps a heel on historically low interest rates.

Continuing a public relations tour at a time of...

Lawmakers Argue for More HARP 2.0 Modifications

11/02/2011 By: Ryan Schuette

A bipartisan group of lawmakers called for more modifications to the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) Wednesday in a public letter addressing federal officials.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) and Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Georgia) announced the letter in a...

mortgage interest rates are drifting lower for the third straight day – driven primarily by swirling uncertainly surrounding the continuing sovereign debt saga in Europe.

A great deal of the work done last week during a summit of European financial leaders to reach an accord to prevent a near-term financial collapse of Greece may have all...