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Gross Sees 2.60 as Technical Line in Sand

Monday, January 9th, 2017

This is an excerpt from a longer Bloomberg story: “If the 10-year breaks 2.6 percent on a weekly or on a monthly basis, because it’s so strong and so important in terms of technical analysis, that if and when it’s broken on the upside, it’s a bear market,” Gross, who manages the ...

Aging Baby Boomer Alert: The Bond Market Version

Monday, January 9th, 2017

Via Bloomberg: Don’t Worry Bond Investors, Baby Boomers Have Got Your Back by Natasha Doff January 9, 2017, 5:30 AM EST HSBC report sees aging population supporting demand for bonds Debt already accounts for more than half of pension holdings Investors mourning the end of a 30-year bull market in U.S. Treasuries can take ...

Corporate Bond Pipeline

Monday, January 9th, 2017

Via Bob Elson at Bloomberg: IG CREDIT PIPELINE: TD to Price, IADB, KOMINS Mandates Added 2017-01-09 10:39:10.53 GMT By Robert Elson (Bloomberg) -- Set to price today: * Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) Aaa/AAA, to price $benchmark 144a/Reg-S 5Y Covered Bond, via managers BMO/BNP/GS/HSBC/TD; IPT MS +Low-60s * Added today: * Kommuninvest (KOMINS) Aaa/AAA, mandates BNP/BAML/Nom/TD to manage a forthcoming $benchmark 144a/Reg-S ...

Sterling Falls on Prospect of Hard Brexit

Monday, January 9th, 2017

Via WSJ: Sterling Falls on Theresa May’s Brexit Comments The prime minister said the U.K. would aim for a clean break from the EU By Mike Bird Jan. 9, 2017 6:13 a.m. ET   The pound fell sharply against the dollar and euro Monday after U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain would make a definitive break from ...

Early FX

Monday, January 9th, 2017

Via Marc Chandler at Brown Brothers Harriman: Drivers in the Week Ahead US retail sales late in the week is the main data feature this week The short squeeze in the Chinese yuan appears to have ended UK Prime Minister May comments suggest hard Brexit, which weighs on sterling Brazil is ...

Can the Epic Junk Bond Rally Continue?

Monday, January 9th, 2017

Via WSJ: Investors Betting Strongest Junk-Bond Rally in Years Has Legs Better earnings among risky companies and a slowdown of defaults have given junk-bond investors cause for optimism despite a big decline in yields   Updated Jan. 8, 2017 10:37 p.m. ET   An uptick in earnings among riskier U.S. companies is bolstering ...

Does The Equity Rally Have Legs?

Sunday, January 8th, 2017

Via WSJ: As Dow Approaches 20000: Has This Rally Just Begun? As some investors consider swapping out of bonds, analysts see a tailwind for stocks By COLIN BARR and AARON KURILOFF Jan. 8, 2017 6:37 p.m. ET Perhaps this rally hasn’t ended. Perhaps it has just begun. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday closed at 19963.80, as ...

Summers on Trump’s Economics

Sunday, January 8th, 2017

Via Bloomberg: Summers Warns of Financial-Crisis Risk From Trump Economic Plans by Christopher Condon January 8, 2017, 12:58 PM EST Financial deregulation would be ‘hugely dangerous,’ he says Ex-Obama adviser says stronger dollar would hurt exporters   Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers attacked the policy proposals of Donald Trump on several fronts, saying the president-elect’s plans ...

Fixed Income Bonus Time

Sunday, January 8th, 2017

Via Bloomberg: BofA Said to Boost Bonuses for Bond Traders, Cut Equities by Laura J Keller and Hugh Son January 6, 2017, 11:24 AM EST January 6, 2017, 2:01 PM EST Fixed-income staff to get as much as 10% more for 2016 Equities slump prompts cut of about 5% for that bonus pool BofA Said to Boost ...

Musings and Ruminationsof Prospective Trump Fed Chairs

Sunday, January 8th, 2017

Via Bloomberg: Potential Fed Chairs Suggest They Would Pursue Tighter Policy by Rich Miller January 8, 2017, 4:00 PM EST Bank is behind curve in raising rates, Stanford’s Taylor says Hubbard, Warsh also point toward higher interest rates Potential candidates to head the Federal Reserve in 2018 suggested that monetary policy would be tighter if ...