Current coupon MBS has done reasonably well in the rally. Merrill shifted from an Overweight to a Neutral position on the basis. Especially with swap spreads on the tight end and rates at their lows, there is little reason to be overweight anything relative to Treasuries. In 30s, higher coupons have certainly underperformed, with 6s still the worst performer in the stack. The 6 coupon is on the cheaper side relative to 5.5s, which could stay so for a while with the Refi Index still rising and prepayments soaring. In 15s, currently overweight the sector vs. 30s.
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The capital structure features initial exchangeable notes among the class A, mezzanine and B1 notes. The super senior and senior support tranches will repay noteholders on a pro-rata basis.
May 2 -
The company's branches and loan officers will transition to ML Mortgage but operations staff are not part of the deal.
May 2 -
Note payments are linked to two tranched credit default swap (CDS) transactions, one related to the reference obligation between the issuer and SoFi Bank and SoFi Lending and the Issuer.
May 1 -
The Federal Open Market Committee held the federal funds rate at current levels, citing "lack of further progress" toward meeting inflation goals.
May 1 -
During this week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting, officials voted to lower the cap on the amount of Treasury securities that can roll off the central bank's books each month from $60 billion to $25 billion.
May 1 -
House Republicans held a subcommittee hearing on reforming bank merger M&A, laying the groundwork to counter Biden administration efforts to make it more difficult for mergers to be approved.
May 1