- Gotta be the weather? In addition to January's soft retail sales print (-0.4% vs. consensus -0.1%, ex-autos flat vs. consensus +0.1%), December's 0.2% gain is revised to a loss of 0.1%, with Dec. ex-auto's 0.7% gain revised to just +0.3%.
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- A longer-term chart shows the Y/Y gain in sales just ticking below the range it's been in for the past couple of years.
- The 10-year Treasury yield slips another couple of basis points, now off 6 on the day to 2.73%. TLT +0.6%, TBT -1.2%
- Stock index futures slip a bit more, the S&P 500 (SPY) -0.7%.
- Treasury ETFs: TBT, TLT, TMV, SHY, IEF, TBF, PST, EDV, TTT, TMF, ZROZ, SBND, TLH, IEI, DLBS, TYO, DTYS, VGLT, UST, BIL, SHV, UBT, TBX, VGIT, TLO, VGSH, SCHO, GSY, DTYL, SCHR, LBND, TYD, ITE, TENZ, TYBS, DTUL, DTUS, SST, TUZ, FIVZ, DFVL, TBZ, DLBL, DFVS, TYNS