FMY News and Press, First Trust Motgage Income Fund of Beneficial Interest From 01/23/19

Black Knight's (NYSE: BKI ) "first look" at December 2018 month-end mortgage performance stats shows the national foreclosure rate at the lowest year-end figure since 2005,  with 0.52% of mortgages in active foreclosure. More news on: Black Knight, Inc., UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Le...

The data in this report came from CEFConnect, CEFdata.com, and CEFA on the week of December 30th. Stocks turned out some decent sized gains for the week but not without some fairly remarkable volatility. The week started off poorly with the worst Christmas eve going back to the 1930s pushi...

The Trump Administration reopens a program after the mortgage industry says its closure during the partial government shutdown could have forced lenders to delay or cancel loan closings, the Wall Street Journal reports. More news on: Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, UBS ETRACS Monthly P...

Talks at the Federal Reserve are intensifying over how big the central bank's portfolio of bonds and other assets will be and what it will be in it when it's done shrinking its balance sheet, according to the Wall Street Journal . More news on: Western Asset Mortgage Defined Opportunity...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 4.45% for the week ending Jan. 10, down six basis points from the previous week, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Survey. More news on: UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN, iShares Mortgage Real Estate Capped ETF, SPDR Hom...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 4.51% for the week ending Jan. 3, 2019, down 4 basis points from the previous week, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Survey. More news on: UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN, iShares Mortgage Real Estate Capped ETF, VanEc...

First Trust Mortgage Income Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: FMY) has declared the Fund’s regularly scheduled monthly common share distribution in the amount of $0.06 per share payable on January 15, 2019, to shareholders of record as of January 3, 2019. The ex-dividend date is expected to be...

U.S. non-agency mortgage-backed securities should provide a defensive alternative to investment-grade corporate credit, according to Pacific Investment Management Co.'s (Pimco) 2019 outlook . More news on: Western Asset Mortgage Defined Opportunity Fund, TCW Strategic Income Fund, Princi...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage slips 12 basis points to an average of 4.63% for the week ending Dec. 13, its lowest rate in three months, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Survey. More news on: D. R. Horton Inc., KB Home, PulteGroup, Inc., Financial stocks news, News on ETFs, ...

BlackRock fixed income chief Rick Rieder doesn't see the  recent yield curve inversion as a sign of an imminent recession this time, he told CNBC. More news on: UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN, iShares Mortgage Real Estate Capped ETF, VanEck Vectors Mortgage RE...