Declining number of Loan Request's!

Possibly yes, in reality almost certainly not.
The WL folks have not been sending along many sloppy seconds this week, and we are getting into vacation season, which has historically meant rates spiked when nobody was around to bid .. maybe FC are getting their retaliation in early this year.
But yes, after the record week last week (see the blog numbers) it is pretty disappointing so far, today especially so.