Archive for March, 2009
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
The $18 billion reopening of the 10 year resulted in a yield of 3.043 percent. That was about a 1.5 basis point tail from levels at which the issuing was trading in the street prior to the auction.
Indirect bidders were quite robust and took 24 percent of the auction. In ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Agency spreads are mixed. Two year and 10 year spreads are flat. Five year sector benchmarks are 3 basis points wider.
FNMA announced a benchmark issue in the 5 year sector. Price talk is 91 basis points.
Swap spreads have narrowed today. Two year spreads are tighter by 5 basis points. Five ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
The Treasury will shortly auction $18 billion 10 year notes. It is actually 9 year and 11 months as it is a reopening of the 10 year.
In general reopenings do not sizzle and this is likely to be a street piece of paper. Against that background I expect a 1 ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
QE begins in the UK today as the Bank of England will purchase 2 billion bonds in the 2014 through 2018 sector.
Results will be available at 1045AM New York time.
One market participant and steadfast friend of the blog predicts disappointment and the results weighing on the Treasury auction of $ ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
I drove my wife to the airport this morning so there will be no opening comments today.
The IG 11 is opening 235/236 which is 6 tighter.
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Prices of Treasury coupon securities slumped in the short maturities and plummeted in the longer maturities today. The penurious US Treasury began a three day period in which it will dun the market for some $ 63 billion via the issuance of 3 year,10 year and 30 year bonds this ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
The IG 11 is inside of 250 at 248/250. The healthy bounce on the equity markets has produced some robust spread tightening and the aforementioned index is about 15 tighter.
New issues were the flavor of the day.
CVS was offering $1billion 10 years and I heard price talk in the 375 ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Agency spreads are unchanged in the 2 year sector and also in the 10 year sector. Five year spreads narrowed 1 1/2 basis points.
I have not heard a good answer regarding the Fed's decision to add long paper to its agency pile. One trader noted that they sort of load ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Mortgages are 3 ticks to 4 ticks tighter to swaps.
Two year swaps are 4 basis points tighter at 76 3/4. Five year swaps are better by 4 1/4 basis points at 66 3/4. Ten year spreads are tighter by 1 3/4 basis points at 23 1/4. Thirty year spreads are ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
The Treasury will shortly auction $34 billion of 3 year notes. There is a healthy outright concession as the 2year year note trades behind 1 percent and the 5 year and the 10 year enter zones ( 2 percent and 3 percent respectively)in which previous iterations to these levels has ...
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