Archive for June, 2014
Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Mortgages are 1 to 2 ticks wider today with 4s and 4.5 lagging and 3s the best performers. Dealers are lamenting very light flows from both end user clients and originators.
Fifteen year paper is 1+ to 2+ ticks wider also in very light activity.
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Swap spreads are 1/2 basis points wider in the belly of the curve. Thirty year spreads are unchanged and 2 year spreads are 1/4 wider.
One market maker said flows were two way and the wider spreads in the belly just reflected swaps lagging Treasuries in the rally.
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Via CRT Capital
• Bank demand was high for 5s at the last quarter-end auction (March) and associated with a strong 23.1% direct award. The March auction stopped-through 1.2 bp – the largest since January 2012.
• Foreign buying has increased recently, taking 15% at the last four auctions vs. 12% at ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Corporate bond spreads opened the day a tad weaker with bank and finance paper and utilities and energy about a basis point wider to Treasuries. Those spreads have recovered from that early bout of weakness and have returned to unchanged (in quiet professional trading).
Intermittently, I have chosen to point out ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Via Bloomberg:
Kansas Gas and Electric Company 250mm (ng) A2/A 30 yr
6 mo par call prior}
ipt +112.5 area
Yamana Gold 500mm (ng) Baa3/BB+ 10 yr 144A w/Reg Rts Reg S
3 mo par call prior
ipt +275 area
And "in the works"
Turkiye Ziraat Bankasi B'Mark Baa3/BBB- 5 yr 144A Reg S
a debut deal ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Prices of Treasury coupon securities have surged in the aftermath of the very weak Q1 GDP revision. The surge has favored the belly of the curve as 5s 30s is at 174.2 versus 173.3 in my early morning posting. Similarly, the 10s 30 spread has widened to 82.9 from 82. ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Via Mark Chandler at Brown Brothers Harriman:
The foreign exchange market is becalmed. The euro has been confined to less than a 20 pip range (1/5 of a penny), and the dollar has not moved out of a 15 tick range against the yen (about 1/1000 of a penny).
Sterling is ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
This is from the good folks at Bloomberg and I would note again today that spreads which made post crisis lows Monday repeated that lunacy again yesterday.
Via Bloomberg:
IG CREDIT: Volume Higher, Spreads at New Lows Again
2014-06-25 10:16:06.867 GMT
By Robert Elson
June 25 (Bloomberg) -- The final Trace count for secondary
trading was ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
For the most part the US has banned the export of US oil (with minor exception like Canada) since the onset of the energy crisis of the 1970s. The WSJ reports that the Commerce Department has eased that ban and some exports will begin shortly.
Via the WSJ:
Markets
U.S. Ruling Loosens Four-Decade ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Prices of Treasury coupon securities are virtually unchanged from levels which prevailed last evening around 830PM in New York. There was very little in the way of meaningful economic data (a measure of German consumer confidence registered a small gain) and market participants focused on the fragile geopolitical situation. In ...
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