| 1. | Those prepayments shorten the lives of mortgage securities and erode their returns.
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| 2. | If rates keep falling, though, some mortgage securities will suffer, they said.
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| 3. | Prepayments shorten the lives of mortgage securities and can hurt their returns.
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| 4. | Mortgage securities gained on Treasuries for the first time in six days.
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| 5. | Craig Knutson became head of adjustable-rate mortgage securities trading earlier this month.
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| 6. | Mortgage securities failed to match the gains of Treasuries as yields slid.
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| 7. | During the past year, mortgage securities have outperformed all other bond classes.
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| 8. | Like all bonds, mortgage securities lost value as interest rates went up.
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| 9. | Sales of mortgage securities of all types approached $ 4.7 billion.
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| 10. | Mortgage securities gained more than Treasuries as investors sought higher-yielding securities.
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