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MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 0.47% in Octoberr

Calculated Risk

million borrowers since March 2020. Ginnie Mae loans in forbearance increased by 30 basis points to 1.06%, and the forbearance share for portfolio loans and private-label securities (PLS) increased 6 basis points to 0.43%. Notwithstanding the storms, some borrowers may be experiencing other economic distress.

Portfolio 147
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Why Is the Fed Always Late to the Party?

The Big Picture

If only the Fed didn’t do X, our portfolio would have been much better” seems to be a terrible approach to managing assets for clients. 2020s : Remained on emergency footing post Covid, despite broad evidence of economic recovery. Following those March 2020 rate cuts, the Fed stayed at Zero until March 2022.

Banking 336
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How Many Bear Markets Have You Lived Through?

The Big Picture

2020 : Pandemic crash of 34%, fastest top fall (but fastest recovery) 2022 : Stocks & bonds both down double digits since 1981 All of these meet the unofficial definition of a bear of a 20% move off of the peak. The first bear I experienced was utterly meaningless economically but still felt bad. In fact, it felt horrible.

Marketing 336
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Observations to Start 2023

The Big Picture

What does this rock traversing through the vast emptiness of space have to do with economic expansion, corporate revenues & profits, inflation, or interest rates? We can credit three elements for this massive outperformance: -Substantial prices resets: 57% in 2008-09 and 34% in 2020. Fiscal stimulus 2020-22. billion times.

Economy 329
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The Many Ways the FOMC Can Be Wrong…

The Big Picture

The Fed is right about inflation but lacks the appropriate tools to address the 2020 inflation cycle. We don’t know if the Fed is right about anything – Economics is at best a squishy and imperfect soft science. The Fed is right about inflation but misunderstands the underlying causes. Before inflation falls? Before rates drop?

Economy 352
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Nobody Knows Anything, FedWatch Edition

The Big Picture

Rather than accept the volatility of month-to-month economic datapoints — NFP, Consumer Spending, Manufacturing, Inflation, etc. Instead, there is a tendency to put too much weight onto the numbers themselves, encouraging a variety of changes and modifications to portfolios due to whatever the latest data suggests.

Economics 363
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Where is This Rally Going?

The Big Picture

BAML’s Chief Equity Technician Stephen Suttmeier likens the 2020 crash to the modern version of the 1987 crash: A substantial crash that took place 7 years into the start of a new bull. Secular Bull Market : US stocks are in the 5-6th inning of a bull market. Historical comparisons imply this market may have another 3-7 years to go.

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