Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Prices of Treasury coupon securities are surging as equity market around the world crater in a response to an collective epiphany regarding the sustainability and strength of the putative recovery.
In Japan GDP increased at annualized rate of 3.7 percent in Q2 following an outsized contraction of 11.7 percent in Q1. ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
I am back after spending time with my daughter,granddaughter and son in law late last week. It is difficult to serve two masters and consequently blogging took a back seat.As I peruse the news it looks as though we could be in for a bumpy ride as stocks are taking ...
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Regular blogging will resume on Monday.
My apologies for missing a couple of interesting days but I was spending quality time with family.
Enjoy the weekend and see you Monday.
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
LAST: 8/13 OPEN: PRICED:
GE 3½ 8/12 185/180 178/173 +180 VS T3 7/12
RABOBK 2.65 8/12 97/92 95/90 +92 VS T3 7/12
CS 5.3 8/19 167/162 160/155 +155 VS T10 5/19
C 6⅜ 8/14 385/380 375/370 +380 VS T5
GE 6 8/19 230/225 225/220 ...
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Prices of Treasury coupon securities have posted modest gains in overnight trading. The yield on the 2 year note has declined a basis point to 1.08 percent. The yield on the 3 year note edged lower by a basis point to 1.65 percent. The yield on the 5 year note ...
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
I placed a stop loss at $ 51.75 on my TBT and got stopped out on 1500 shares.
My cost had been $51.08.
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Family responsibilities will make me quite sporadic today and tomorrow.
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Libor sets at 0.44 today versus 0.44969 yesterday.
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Prices of Treasury coupon securities are virtually unchanged in overnight trading.
The yield on the 7year note is a basis point higher at 3.34 percent. The yield on the 10 year note is also a basis point higher at 3.72 percent.
The remaining benchmark issues are unchanged. The 2 year note yields ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Family duties will keep me busy for the remainder of the afternoon so there will be no closing post.
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