Archive for November, 2014

FX

Monday, November 10th, 2014

Via Marc Chandler at Brown Brothers Harriman: Drivers for the Week Ahead -        There was nothing in the October jobs report that will challenge the FOMC’s assessment of the labor market -        Contrary to a widely cited Reuters report, the ECB came together and endorsed the expansion ...

Secondary Market Corporate Bond trading on Friday

Monday, November 10th, 2014

Via Bloomberg: IG CREDIT: Spreads Leak Wider; BCECN Files, INDON Requests 2014-11-10 10:51:30.754 GMT By Robert Elson Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The final Trace count for secondary trading was $13.4b vs $16.4b Thursday and $12.6b the previous Friday. 10-DMA $13.4b; 10-DMA of only Friday sessions $12.2b. * 144a trading added another $1.5b of IG volume * BPLN 3.125% ...

November 10 2014 Opening

Monday, November 10th, 2014

Prices of Treasury coupon securities have posted modest gains in overnight trading. The belly of the curve has outperformed (as it did in my absence on Friday) and I think that reflects the 10 year and 30 year supply from the Treasury later this week. It also is a continued ...

Merrill Lynch on Credit Spreads

Sunday, November 9th, 2014

Via Merrill  Lynch: Nov '14 Credit Investor Survey: From upside to downside risks. From upside to downside risks. Just three weeks removed from the week when 10-year Treasury yields plunged well inside 2% intraday, not surprisingly there has been a decisive shift of the expected timing of the Fed's first rate ...

Depleted Bonus Pools

Sunday, November 9th, 2014

Via the WSJ: Markets Bonus Season Brings More Pain for Traders Deal Makers Set to Get Bigger Bonuses, But Not Traders and Hedge-Fund Employees By Justin Baer Nov. 9, 2014 8:00 p.m. ET 0 COMMENTS Many of Wall Street’s deal makers are heading toward a happy year-end bonus season, while traders and hedge-fund employees ...

Amother Story on the October 15 Short Squeeze

Sunday, November 9th, 2014

Regulators are studying the Great Short Squeeze of October 15 in which the 10 year note traded down to 1.85 percent. They want to understand if this was a one off event if there is the potential for such an event to occur in the future. I wrote about the squeeze ...

Walgreen’s Pricing

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

Via Bloomberg; Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc 8 bln Baa2/BBB priced 750mm 18 mo frn 3ml +45 750mm  3Y +80 1.25bln  5Y +105 1.25 bln  7Y +125 2 bln 10Y +145 500mm  20Y +145 1.5 bln 30Y +170

MBS

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

Mortgages are a + to 1+ tighter this morning. There was some overnight buying and there is domestic money manager buying this morning.

New Issue List

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

Via Bloomberg: G CREDIT: List of New Issues Expected to Price in U.S. Today 2014-11-06 15:01:15.930 GMT By Greg Chang Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of new issues expected to price today. * ConocoPhillips Co. $benchmark A1/A * 7Y, 10Y, 20Y, 30Y * IPT 7Y +95, 10Y +110, 20Y +110, 30Y +135 (all area) * ...

Peripherals

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

I am not sure exactly what Draghi said to motivate this but 10 year Spain has improved about five basis points from levels which prevailed at 500AM. That spread is now Spain 25 rich to US versus about 20 rich early this morning.