See results from the Mortgage Bankers Association's Refinance and Purchase Indexes as well as the weekly mortgage rates surveyed by Freddie Mac.

The CMBS market may get a turbo boost early next year, when an updated benchmark will enable market participants to more effectively hedge positions.

The Global Financial Markets Association said that it supports IOSCO's efforts to analyze industry initiatives on risk retention, transparency and disclosure standardization.

Springleaf has “adequate liquidity” to survive over the next 12 months, and is seeing smaller losses on its business

The Federal Housing Finance Agency Friday morning directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase their loan guarantee fees.

The Federal Housing Finance Authority's announcement increasing GSE g-fees by 10 basis points is positive for 30-year MBS, analysts said.

The Real Estate Finance Group's addition of three commercial real estate lenders expands its client service and coverage nationwide for commercial real estate.

Servicing balances totaled $9.19 trillion at June 30, compared to $8.9 trillion at March 31.

Standard &Poor's said today that used vehicle sales are likely to increase more than 2% y/y in August to 3.9mn units, signaling continued auto loan originations and ABS issuance.

But the GOP statement of principles offers no specifics on how Fannie and Freddie should be “wound down.”

The high yield bond market isn’t the only corner of the debt universe to defy the traditional sleepiness of August this year and keep churning out deals—the leveraged loan and CLO markets have declined to take their summer siesta as well.

This week's primary influencing factor on trading was Friday's address by the Federal Reserve chairman at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium.