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Q1 2006

Mortgage lending continues strong

Breakdown of mortgage borrowing

Mortgage lending, a major component of the US bond market, continued strong in Q1 2006.

The four largest suppliers of mortgage funds continue to be commercial banks, savings institutions, agency mortgage pools, and issuers of asset-backed securities, accounting for 86.8% of the market in Q1 2006.

Q1 2006

Non-GSE’s rush to mortgage-backed securities

Loans made by Issuers of Asset-Backed Securities

After having the market for mortgage securitization virtually to themselves while Fannie Mae was in the regulatory doghouse, issuers of asset-backed securities again face fierce competition as government-sponsored enterprises returned with a vengeance to the market.

Q1 2006

Agency bond issuance recovers

Fannie Mae headquarters

Although the pace of net new issues of agency bonds was still $79 billion below levels of 2003 — the peak year before the crack-down on Fannie Mae for accounting irregularities — issuance of mortgage bonds by government-sponsored-enterprises recovered to $492 billion in Q1 2006 (annual rates).

The three principal buyers of these new agency bonds were foreign investors, commercial banks, and securities brokers and dealers.

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