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Delinquencies also showed signs of overall improvement in March, despite an increase in foreclosure numbers, ICE Mortgage Technology said.

The bond selloff reflects mounting concern that prolonged disruption to energy supplies will keep inflation elevated, hindering central banks from lowering rates.

A proposed update to Basel III capital rules from federal banking regulators does not specifically include mortgage insurance as a factor in determining the risk weight for a mortgage loan held on a bank's balance sheet. Industry experts say it should.

Non-qualified loans are the majority of loans in the pool, 59.2%, while loans exempt from the Ability-to-Repay/Qualified Mortgage rule, represent 35.9%.

When Trump put pressure on the Fed this didn't lead to higher inflation expectations, but to lower Treasury yields, a fall in equity prices, a surge in gold and a weaker dollar.

The 30-year fixed is still over 20 basis points higher than its February bottom, but fell 7 basis points this past week on Iran peace hopes, Freddie Mac said.

February's securitization from Vertical Bridge was the sector's largest-ever deal and included the sector's first single-B rated tranche.

A decline in Middle East travel and higher fuel prices should not put a major dent in the company's performance, execs said Thursday.

Unlike some of FIGRE Trust's previous securitizations, there is no performance trigger related to the net weighted average coupon rate.

Credit risk transfers, a means by which banks can move risk off their balance sheets, earned considerable bipartisan support in a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing Wednesday.