Weekly Mortgage Overview: 10/7/2013

By October 7, 2013Uncategorized

Another week of government shutdown and we are just 10 days away from reaching our debt ceiling – that is what will be weighing on traders’ minds the most.

This week’s schedule is big on economic releases but the following reports will not be released if the government is closed:

-Consumer Credit
-Wholesale Trade
-Import and Export Prices
-Federal Budget
-Retail Sales
-PPI
-Business Inventories

There is a large supply of Treasuries to absorb:
10/08: 3-year Note
10/09: 10-year Note – Reissue
10/10: 30-year Bond – Reissue

The biggest event of the week was supposed to be the release of the FOMC’s minutes from their last meeting.  This will be released but traders were looking for insight from the minutes as to when the Fed might begin to taper.  But now the point is moot as the Fed is effectively forced to keep their bond purchases at current levels as an attempt to offset the damage to the economy that the government shutdown is causing.

Pre-Market Status: Neutral.  Once again, MBS are testing the upper end of the trading channel this morning and are most likely going to stay within the same trading channel as last week unless we get news that a deal has been struck and the shutdown will end.

What is on the agenda this week?

Date

Time (ET)

Economic Release

Market Expects

Prior

7-Oct

3:00 PM

Consumer Credit

$11.8B

$10.4B

8-Oct

8:30 AM

Trade Balance

-$38.6B

-$39.1B

8-Oct

10:00 AM

JOLTS – Job Openings

NA

3.689M

9-Oct

7:00 AM

MBA Mortgage Index

NA

-0.40%

9-Oct

10:00 AM

Wholesale Inventories

0.30%

0.10%

9-Oct

10:30 AM

Crude Inventories

NA

5.472M

9-Oct

2:00 PM

FOMC Minutes

10-Oct

8:30 AM

Initial Claims

318K

308K

10-Oct

8:30 AM

Continuing Claims

2903K

2925K

10-Oct

8:30 AM

Export Prices ex-ag.

NA

-0.10%

10-Oct

8:30 AM

Import Prices ex-oil

NA

-0.20%

10-Oct

10:30 AM

Natural Gas Inventories

NA

101 bcf

10-Oct

2:00 PM

Treasury Budget

NA

+$75.180B

11-Oct

8:30 AM

Retail Sales

-0.10%

0.20%

11-Oct

8:30 AM

Retail Sales ex-auto

0.20%

0.10%

11-Oct

8:30 AM

PPI

0.20%

0.30%

11-Oct

8:30 AM

Core PPI

0.10%

0.00%

11-Oct

9:55 AM

Mich Sentiment

74.5

77.5

11-Oct

10:00 AM

Business Inventories

0.20%

0.40%