Agency MBS Supply Unchanged as Federal Reserve Brings Massive New Demand to the Agency Market
September 28, 2012
The Federal Reserve is launching its aggressive new campaign to boost economic growth by gobbling up the lions share of new agency MBS production in a stagnant market. The volume of outstanding single-family agency MBS grew by just $651 million during the second quarter of 2012, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. At $5.382 trillion, the agency MBS market at the end of June was down 0.5 percent from the same point in 2011. Because the non-agency MBS market is...[Includes two data charts]