Secondary

The Refinance Index decreased 8% from the previous week, while the seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased 4%.

Community banks have a problem with the Bipartisan Housing Commission’s plan for restructuring the secondary mortgage market.

John Schaefer, a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry, is joining Annaly Capital Management’s board.

Collateralized mortgage obligation issuance so far this year has been stronger than last, but volume levels are still shy of what it was in 2011.

We're hearing that some in the mortgage industry are finding recent legal developments are further complicating and even potentially changing business decisions involving sales of nonperforming loans from the private-label residential mortgage-backed securities market.

Gramercy Capital Corp. is exiting the commercial real estate finance business, and effective April 15 will change its name to Gramercy Property Trust Inc. to reflect its focus going forward.

Morningstar released a presale report on another Goldman Sachs single-asset commercial mortgage-backed securities deal.

Two Harbors Investment Corp. has priced a public offering of 50 million shares of its common stock at an offering price of $13.46 per share.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s stock has gotten a lot of support from the news of Rep. Melvin Watt’s possible nomination.

All but four Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks were losers on Monday as the market reacted to uncertainty in Europe.