JMBS News and Press, Janus Henderson Mortgage-Backed Securities From 01/17/24

2024-01-17 23:10:00 ET Summary The bond market ended the year with both duration and credit risk driving strong returns for a second consecutive month. 10-year Treasury yields slid to their lowest level since July after the Fed softened its stance on further interest rate hikes. ...

2024-01-15 20:07:00 ET Summary Underpinning the Fed’s policies will be the basic data on the economy regarding the risk of recession and the movement of inflation. Consumer Price Index rose just 3.4% over the past 12 months, down from a peak of 9.1% in mid-2022. Long-te...

2024-01-12 02:25:00 ET Summary Prospective home buyers face high prices and elevated borrowing costs, while homeowners refrain from listing their properties. As global central banks raised interest rates to tame inflation, home prices have cooled relative to the start of the hikin...

2024-01-10 08:42:00 ET Summary The downward inflation trend has bolstered market confidence that monetary policy is sufficiently restrictive as to achieve the FOMC’s longer-run goals. Further, policymakers’ rhetoric has turned more dovish, suggesting that a critical infl...

2024-01-10 07:12:00 ET Summary We are value investors. In constructing portfolios for our clients, we seek out companies that we believe are trading in the market at significant discounts to their underlying value. These businesses must offer significant profit potential and be run by...

2024-01-09 13:25:00 ET Summary Amid slower economic growth and more benign monetary policy, we believe that this year bond prices will be driven less by inflation and central bank policy and more by economic growth dynamics. Rather than seek to play the timing of interest rate red...

2024-01-09 09:00:00 ET Summary New homes became more unaffordable for the typical American household in November 2023. Median household income was $76,791, which was up from October 2023's initial estimate of $76,588. We already know the average interest rate on a conventional...

2024-01-08 22:35:00 ET Summary Many months ago it became abundantly clear that the Fed had extinguished the inflation fires that were stoked in 2020-21, and therefore lower interest rates were called for. More recently, we see that the economy has lost a lot of its forward momentu...

2024-01-08 18:50:00 ET Summary No economist’s work is more germane to Issues 2024 than the brilliant Minsky. The hedge fund industry had surpassed $500 billion by 2001, up from about $35 billion to begin the nineties. Global markets wasted no time signaling 2024 liquidi...

2024-01-04 00:55:00 ET Summary U.S. home prices hit record highs in 2023, as a lack of supply outstripped any dent to demand that higher mortgage prices might have caused. The Fed may be done hiking rates, but is unlikely to aggressively cut rates in 2024, in part because of shelt...