MBA Chart of the Week: Conforming Loan Limit Values for 2023 (Dec 2 2022) Earlier this week, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced the conforming loan limits for mortgages eligible to be acquired by Fannie Mae and […]
MBA Chart of the Week: MOVE Volatility Index and Mortgage-Treasury Spread (Apr 11, 2025) Market volatility, both in equity and bond markets, increased sharply this week because of the serial surprises with respect to the direction […]
MBA Chart of the Week: Comparing Weekly Unemployment Insurance Continued Claims and Monthly Unemployment Levels The COVID-19 pandemic continued to impact the labor market to close 2020. Today’s release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed […]
MBA Chart of the Week: Effect of 2025 Announced Tariffs on Household Disposable Income by Income Decile (Apr 4, 2025) Since World War II, the consensus among economists has been pro-free trade with the attitude to tariffs summed up by JP Morgan’s […]