Archive for February, 2014
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
Mortgages are tighter to Treasuries by 1 tick to 3 ticks. Last week there was some end user selling and that supply has cleaned up. Origination sales are very light and consequently the tandem of fresh end user buying and Federal Reserve purchases has combined to tighten spreads. One dealer ...
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
Via Bloomberg:
02-25-14
Trans-Canada Pipelines Ltd. B'Mark A3/A- 20 yr
3 mo par call prior
ipt +125 area
Fifth Third 500mm (NG) Baa1/BBB+ 5 yr
ipt +low 90's
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. B'Mark Baa1/BBB 30 yr
6 mo par call prior
ipt +140-145
Magellan Midstream Partners LP 250mm Baa1/BBB+(ng) tap 5.15% 2043
6 mo par call prior
asap ...
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
The Treasury will sell $32 billion 2 year notes at 100PM today. One trader in a note reported that the range on the issue since November has been 27 basis points to 43 basis points with the bulk of the trading between 33 and 36 basis points. The WI issue ...
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
Corporate bond market remains very firm but close to unchanged. Industrials and bank and finance paper unchanged and TMT maybe a basis point better, according to one source.
Cisco brought a mega deal yesterday and at levels tighter than initial price talk. As an example the IPT on the 5 year ...
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
Via Bloomberg:
RATES: Shorts Rise in JPM Survey as Supply Looms
By Robert Elson
Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The JPMorgan Treasury Client Survey
for the week ended Feb 24 vs week ended Feb 18.
• Longs 19 vs 21
• Neutrals 56 vs 62
• Shorts 25 vs 17
• Net longs -6 vs 4
• "The all clients ...
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
Mark Chandler of Brown Brothers Opines on China and allied topics in his morning note to clients. Here is the relevant excerpt:
The Chinese yuan extended its sharp drop for the sixth consecutive session. Today's 0.4% drop vs. the dollar is the largest is the largest in almost two years, and ...
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
Via CRT Capital:
At the risk of over-emphasizing the obvious, beyond the data the two most inspiring developments this week are the need to accommodate Treasury supply and the meaningful month-end demand considerations. The supply trio of $32 bn 2-year, $35 bn 5-years, $29 bn 7-years offers a gross total of ...
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
I did not catch this story earlier but I think it is important and worthy of mention. Shares of property companies in China registered large declines last night as a bank suspended mezzanine financing for some projects. An index of property stocks slumped 2.1 percent last night and that follows ...
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
Prices of Treasury coupon securities are registering very modest gains when measured against levels which prevailed around 1100PM last evening. However we are slightly higher in yield when we view rates versus levels which prevailed at this ungodly hour yesterday. The market remains mired in a very narrow range and ...
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
The Citi economic surprise index continues to fall and the $64K question remains whether or not the economic weakness is real or weather related.
Via Bloomberg:
The dollar fell against most of its major peers as Citigroup’s U.S. Surprise Index, which shows if data beat or fell short of economists’ forecasts, fell ...
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