Archive for May, 2015

FX

Wednesday, May 27th, 2015

Via Marc Chandler at Brow Brothers Harriman: Dollar Gains Trimmed as New Incentives Awaited - A light bout of profit-taking has seen yesterday's strong dollar gains pared - Greece meets with its official creditors today - The focus in the UK today is on the Queen's speech, which opens the new parliamentary session ...

Greece Story with Full Text

Wednesday, May 27th, 2015

Via Bloomberg: Greece Said Likely to Miss May Deal Deadline as Talks Go Nowhere 2015-05-27 10:32:18.511 GMT By Nikos Chrysoloras, Karl Stagno Navarra and Rebecca Christie (Bloomberg) -- Greece will likely miss a deadline for a deal with creditors by the end of the week as the two sides have made little progress during talks in ...

Greece

Wednesday, May 27th, 2015

This just printed and is source of the bid In Treasury market. Via a fully paid up subscriber: *GREECE SAID LIKELY TO MISS MAY DEAL DEADLINE AS TALKS STALL" -- bbg            "*GREECE SAID TO BE NOWHERE CLOSE TO AGREEMENT WITH CREDITORS" -- bbg

Overnight Flows

Wednesday, May 27th, 2015

Real money ( mostly Asian and European bank portfolios) bought 10s and 30s. Fast money also bought but the end users dominated. Bank portfolios also bought 2 year notes. Money managers sold T bills. In the swap market dealers report real money payers in 1s and 2s and receivers in ...

Secondary Market Trading of Corporates Yesterday

Wednesday, May 27th, 2015

Via Bloomberg: IG CREDIT: Client Flows Led Trading; ASIA, KBN Set to Price 2015-05-27 09:48:22.238 GMT By Robert Elson (Bloomberg) -- Secondary IG trading ended with a Trace count of $12.7b vs $6.2b Friday, the lowest volume since Jan. 2, $16.4b the previous Tuesday. 10-DMA $14.b. * 144a trading added $1.9b of IG volume vs $1.1b on ...

Morning Musings

Wednesday, May 27th, 2015

Via Kit Juckes at SocGen: <http://www.sgresearch.com/r/?id=hdd3257f,12c61b7c,12c61b7d&p1=136122&p2=7ea9511375130fc7708c8de459c5e899> It has the feel of an in-between day. Yesterday saw more strong data in the US, with new home sales and durable goods orders both providing reasons to be cheerful about the economy, even if the Markit PMIs and the Dallas Fed index were softer. That's ...

Melange of Topics

Tuesday, May 26th, 2015

Via Merrill Lynch Research:   Positive correlation, negative correlation. We have discussed extensively our outlook for positive correlation between interest rates and credit spreads over the next 1-2 years, as the Fed hikes interest rates. However, today's market action reminds us that sometimes parallel developments warrant old fashioned negative correlation. The big ...

China Equity Bubble

Tuesday, May 26th, 2015

This is a wonderful exposition of the bubble that is otherwise known as the China stock market. The Bloomberg article is replete with charts which often times do not translate well to my blog on a shoestring here. If you want the original Bloomberg, click here. Via Bloomberg: While markets in ...

Cable Junk

Tuesday, May 26th, 2015

Via Bloomberg: Charter Set for One of Biggest Junk-Debt Sales Ever to Buy TWC 2015-05-26 16:54:52.4 GMT By Cordell Eddings and Michelle F. Davis (Bloomberg) -- Charter Communications Inc.’s $55 billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. is setting up one of the biggest high-yield debt offerings ever. The company has received financing commitments in excess ...

Atlanta Fed GDP Update:Slightly Higher

Tuesday, May 26th, 2015

Via the Atlanta Fed: Latest forecast — May 26, 2015 The GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the second quarter of 2015 was 0.8 percent on May 26, up slightly from 0.7 percent on May 19. Following this morning's advance durable manufacturing report from the U.S. ...