Archive for June, 2015
Friday, June 12th, 2015
Via Millan Mulraine of TDSecurities:
The pace of producer prices accelerated in May to +0.5% m/m. This was ahead of the market consensus for a slightly more modest 0.4% m/m advance, and it marks a stark reversal following last month's 0.4% m/m decline. The strong 5.9% rise in energy prices was ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Via Bloomberg:
IG CREDIT: Volume Remains High; Kraft Heinz Meetings Next Week
2015-06-12 09:55:25.384 GMT
By Robert Elson
(Bloomberg) -- Secondary IG trading ended with a Trace
count of $16.7b vs $16.4b Wednesday, $15.7b the previous
Thursday. 10-DMA $15.4b; 10-Thursday moving avg $15.8b.
* 144a trading added $2.5b of IG volume vs $3b on Wednesday,
$2.6b last Thursday
* ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Via a fully paid up subscriber:
* IMF HASN’T BROKEN OFF GREECE TALKS, JAEGER SAYS-- Germany Doesn’t See That IMF Aborted Greece Talks: Jaeger By Birgit Jennen
(Bloomberg) -- Departure of IMF negotiating team from Brussels may have had “many reasons” but Germany does not interpret the move as aborting the talks, ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Via Marc Chandler at Brown Brothers Harriman:
Dollar Remains Bid
The US dollar is set to close the week on a strong note. The relatively constructive data is boosting confidence that the Federal Reserve will have the opportunity it has been looking for to begin, however gradual, the normalization of monetary ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
According to a poll conducted by a German broadcast company 51 percent of the German public would prefer a Greed exit from the Euro.In addition,the poll finds that the German public would take a hardline stance and offer no more concessions to the Greeks.
Via Business Insider:
A small majority of Germans ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Dealers report Asian bank selling in 10 year sector. Spread product based clients sold in the 3 year sector. Real money flocked to the 2 year note from very short coupon sector.
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Via the FT:
German chancellor Angela Merkel just bemoaned the euro for being too strong. Accordingly, it is now less strong.
The currency is now 0.84 per cent lower on the day against the dollar after Mrs Merkel said, according to Bloomberg, that an overly strong euro "makes reforms harder in Spain ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Via the FT:
Financial stocks were the biggest fallers on the Athens General index on Friday and investors also dumped Greek government debt after the International Monetary Fund walked away from the latest round of bailout talks.
The selling came amid evaporating optimism that Athens could finally strike a deal with its ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
This note is from Business Insider and is a nice compilation of the difficulties facing negotiators even if a deal was achieved today (which is quite unlikely).
Via Business Insider:
Finance More: Finance
REPORT: Germany is preparing for a Greek default with time for a last-minute deal running out
Mike ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Via Kit Juckes at SocGen:
The overnight news is dominated by the IMF pulling out of Greek debt talks and there's a nervousness to the commentary now, that was enough to support the Treasury market yesterday evening and the Bund market this morning. In FX-land, where EUR/USD is doomed to follow ...
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