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Mortgage real estate investment trusts are taking stock of their financial ability to respond to market shocks and other concerns stemming from the coronavirus.

Canadian policymakers are escalating their efforts to backstop the nation’s financial system and ensure banks have plenty of room to continue lending through the coronavirus crisis.

The Federal Reserve's most recent economic-stimulus effort could reduce disparities between a rally in Treasurys and a relative slump in mortgage-backed securities that contributed to higher average home-lending rates last week.

Mortgage prices rose and spreads tightened Monday morning as investors responded favorably to the Federal Reserve's weekend announcement that it will resume net purchases of agency MBS for the first time since October 2014.

The Federal Housing Administration is making coronavirus adjustments while warning of possible delays as the industry anticipates a new wave of borrowing due to the Federal Reserve's latest short-term rate cut.

Not so long after Treasury bond yields experienced an unprecedented drop, the average 30-year mortgage rate rose, reflecting volatility related to the coronavirus as well as capacity issues on multiple levels.

Terry Wakefield, a technology consultant who helped launch Fannie Mae's mortgage-backed securities business and form Prudential Home Mortgage, has died. He was 70.

The $400 million Toorak Mortgage Trust 2020-1 is the largest securitization to date for Toorak, which provides short-term institutional capital for individual and corporate real estate developers.

It's hard to overstate just how wild bond markets have gotten amid the coronavirus scare, forcing traders to rethink what's possible.

FirstKey Mortgage is sponsoring a rare pooling of manufactured housing loans in a $507.1 million securitization.

The properties have a combined broker-price opinion value of $530.7 million, which is a 27.4% increase for the properties in their original respective securitizations in 2015 and 2016.

Most of the pool is made up of office-property loans, but also includes a sizeable exposure to hotel and retail properties.

Ginnie Mae in 2020 is going to seriously examine what it would take to respond to a longstanding, priority request of its issuers.

As the hunt for yield intensifies, investors including Pacific Investment Management Co. see an attractive opportunity in mortgage bonds.

Banks' lowering of origination fees and loosening of underwriting standards often foreshadow a downturn.

The mortgage securitization market can expect some changes, particularly in the specified pool and to-be-announced markets, alongside a continuation of trends in other areas.

Trade associations representing mortgage lenders and securities market participants are asking the Federal Housing Finance Agency to rethink a plan to restrict pooling options for loans sold into uniform mortgage-backed securities.

High-grade corporate bonds bested mortgages by a wide margin in 2019 and are likely to outperform them again this year, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Instability among foreign relations typically drags down long-term interest rates and the latest crisis with Iran could be a catalyst for a drop in 2020, according to NerdWallet.

Issuance of Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities slipped after several months of gains, but high volume still pushed the year-to-date total for 2019 ahead of 2018’s full-year figure.