Archive for October, 2009
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
The British pound is sharply higher after comments from BoE Gov King and the BoE minutes from the Oct 8th meeting. Yet King’s statement that UK rates would at some point increase, gave no indication that a rate hike would occur any time in the immediate future. He did describe ...
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
US marts easier to start the day but Europe ugly and steepening
with many spreads vs US in roll-over mode that would favor US
out-performance but direction may be down for US and not up. To
that end, we see a preponderance of macro HF short US long end
and trading accounts continuing to ...
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Pound Gains, Gilts Slide as BOE Votes 9-0 to Hold Asset Program
2009-10-21 10:09:15.913 GMT
By Matthew Brown and Morwenna Coniam
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The pound rose and U.K. government
bonds slid as minutes of the Bank of England’s meeting this
month showed policy makers voted unanimously to keep their
asset-purchase program unchanged.
Sterling advanced to ...
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Today 0.28344
Yesterday 0.28313
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Prices of Treasury coupon securities are posting very small changes or no changes at all in overseas trading. Shorter maturities have seen yields drift higher whilst longer maturities are dramatically unchanged.
The yield on the 2year note has climbed a basis point to 0.93 percent. The yield on the 3 year ...
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
A loyal reader notes that the issue priced at T+ 287.5 basis points and is quoted 275/272 in the gray market.
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Prices of Treasury coupon securities are posting solid gains today.
In a game of chess there is rarely one move which is the game changer. Victory comes often times to the player who has made a series of strong moves and accumulates a winning advantage in that way.
In the bond market ...
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Some consider Goldman Sachs the evil empire and conjure cabals, conspiracies and coordinated chicanery from that firm. I am not in that camp and think they are very bright folks with a long history of success.
On that basis I offer the GS rebuttal to the Barron's cover story which had ...
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
The premium on a three month/ten year ATM swaption straddle is476basis points. Annualized vol is139.1and the daily breakeven is 8.7 basis points.
The premium on a 5year/10 year ATM swaption straddle is1469 basis points. Annualized vol is 118.4 basis points and the daily breakeven is 7.4 basis points.
The breakeven levels yesterday ...
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
After spending the session nearly unchanged vs 10s, MBS are now
clearing 2+ wider vs 10s and 2 weaker vs 5s. Asia was an out-
right seller near the highest prices of the day along w/HFs.
The fed has been in adding collateral and production is around 1
bln. Up-in-cpn has stopped sliding and ...
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