Time for a Second Round of PPIP, Analysts Say, While Fed Stands Pat on Added MBS Purchases
November 4, 2011
With the non-agency MBS sector still languishing, its time to put the approximately $6.3 billion in unused purchasing power at the Public-Private Investment Program to use in a revamped iteration, according to analysts at Deutsche Bank. The Public-Private Investment Program has been having a tough time in 2011 despite a remarkable initial success in facilitating price discovery and supporting market functioning in the residential MBS market, said two Deutsche Bank analysts in a recent report. They note that all eight of the Public-Private Investment Funds suffered a declining internal...