Archive for June, 2015
Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Via Marc Chandler at Brown Brothers Harriman:
Dollar Bounces Back, but Still Seems Fragile
The US dollar has come back better bid after initially extending yesterday's pullback. The euro pushed to $1.1330 after having dipped briefly below $1.1200 yesterday. However, despite what appears to be an approaching brink with Greece, a ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Via Bloomberg:
WHAT TO WATCH:
* (All times New York)
* Economic Data
* 8:30am: Housing Starts, May, est. 1.09m (prior 1.135m)
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* Housing Starts m/m, May, est. -4.0% (prior 20.2%)
* Building Permits, May, est. 1.1m (prior 1.143m, revised
1.140m)
* Building Permits m/m, May, est. -3.5% (prior 10.1%,
prior 9.8%)
* Central Banks
*
* Federal Open Market Committee meeting ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Via the FT:
Eurozone officials discuss holding emergency summit on Greece
Peter Spiegel in Brussels, Stefan Wagstyl in Berlin and Kadhim Shubber in London
Eurozone officials are discussing holding an emergency summit on Sunday for leaders to tackle the crisis in Greece amid mounting fears a deal to break an ongoing impasse ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Via Bloomberg:
IG CREDIT: GS Long Bonds Led Trading on Client Flows; 3 to Price
2015-06-16 10:02:31.790 GMT
By Robert Elson
(Bloomberg) -- Secondary IG trading ended with a Trace
count of $12.4b vs $11.7b Friday, $11.2b the previous Monday.
* 10-DMA $14.8b
* 144a trading added $1.8b of IG volume vs $2.1b on Friday,
$1.8b last Monday
* ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
The Shanghai Composite dropped 3.5 percent in the overnight session. I was searching for reasons on the world wide web and in searching found this little gem in a Bloomberg story.
Via Bloomberg:
The Shanghai Composite Index slid 3.5 percent. After China’s biggest stock gauge more-than doubled in the last 12 months, ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Kit Juckes comments on the relative resiliency of the Euro in spite of the crisis in Greece. He does note that options vols are at their richest levels since December 2011.
Via Kut Juckes at SocGen:
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The main topic in currency markets may be the resilience of the euro. Buffeted by the ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Dealers report light activity in the overnight session. The only noteworthy activity has been central bank selling in 2s and 3s and bank portfolios selling shorter than 2 year coupons.
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
I noted yesterday morning that I track 10 year Spain versus 10 year US. That spread was practically even around this time yesterday. As I compose this electronic missive that spread now shows Spain 11 basis points cheap to US. I do not have Bloomberg but in reviewing my overflowing ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Via the FT:
MarketsFrench spreads rocket to 15 month high
19 minutes ago
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And we're not talking about pâté.
The gap in yields between French and German 10-year bonds has almost doubled in the last three trading days, after months of stability while the two bonds moved pretty much in lockstep, writes Joel Lewin.
It's ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
The European Unions highest Court has given its imprimatur to the Outright Monetary Transactions engaged in by the ECB over the last several years.
Via Bloomberg:
The European Central Bank’s 2012 bond-buying program won the backing of the European Union’s highest court, expanding Mario Draghi’s crisis-fighting arsenal.
The EU Court of Justice, in ...
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