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Will Wednesday's Fed Minutes Spark A Sell-Off?Chris Ciovacco • Tue, May 21 -
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Measuring Inflation: All Signs Pointing UpJames Picerno • Thu, Apr 7, 2011
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Treasury Yield Snapshot: Anxiety Continues to IncreaseDoug Short • Mon, Oct 11, 2010
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Treasurys and Stocks Cannot Both Continue To RiseAvi Morris • Mon, Oct 4, 2010
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Will Wednesday's Fed Minutes Spark A Sell-Off?Chris Ciovacco • Tue, May 21
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- Wednesday, May 22, 10:42 AM Bernanke: Stocks continue with solid gains as the chairman suggests the Fed may never sell the massive assets it's accumulated, instead just letting them roll down. Most interesting are Treasury prices (TLT -1.1%) rolling over - the 10-year yield sunk to 1.89% as Bernanke's soft comments hit the tape, but has reversed to now threaten 2%. Gold (GLD +0.6%) has given up much of its knee-jerk gains, and the dollar (UUP +0.3%) is having none of it, higher across the board, particularly vs. the aussie (FXA -1.1%), yen (FXY -1%), and loonie (FXC -0.6%). 5 Comments
- Monday, May 20, 9:47 AM UBS' 5 "suspected" asset bubbles: 1) Risk-free rates - specifically Treasurys (TLT), Bunds (BUND, BUNL), JGBs (JGBL, JGBT, JGBD, JGBS) 2) Credit (HYG, JNK) 3) Real estate in Asia (WPS) 4) Certain EM equity markets (EIDO, IDXJ, EPHE, THD, EWW) 5) Australian banks (WBK, NABZY.PK, ANZBY.PK, CMWAY.PK). Comment!
- Thursday, May 16, 10:10 AM More on Philly Fed: The big miss is another in a line of weak data points this morning. The decline was led by a steep drop in shipments to -8.5 from +9.1. Also notable is a big jump in inventories to +4.1 from -22.2. Employment worsened to -8.7 from -6.7. The percentage of firms reporting employment decreases was 22% vs. those reporting increases at 14% - a number sure to cross the desk of the FOMC doves this morning. Treasurys have had a tough May, but they're bouncing today, TLT +1.2%. The leveraged bear ETF: TBT -2.4%. Stocks give up early gains (DIA -0.2%). 6 Comments [U.S. Economy]
- Thursday, May 16, 8:38 AM SPY -0.3% premarket, giving up small early gains after a big jump in jobless claims and a rather shocking decline in housing starts. Starts were off 16.5% from March, but up 13.1% Y/Y. On a more hopeful note, building permits were up 14.3% from March, up 35.8% Y/Y. Treasurys catch a bid, TLT +0.5% premarket. Homebuilders ETF: XHB -0.2%. Comment!
- Monday, May 13, 8:50 AM Stock index futures move to session highs following the big beat on retail sales, SPY -0.1% premarket. Excluding a 4.7% decline in gasoline sales, retail spending grew 0.6% in April. Bond prices continue their recent slide, the 10-year note off half of a point. The yield may challenge 2% today. TLT -0.9% premarket. 4 Comments [U.S. Economy]
- Friday, May 10, 10:35 AM Bill Gross (BOND) attempts to ring a bell, calling the 30-year bond bull market over as of April 29, 2013 (while pushing Pimco as the one to help navigate in this new world). The 30-year Treasury yield touched 2.8% at April's end. Including a 9 bp pop today, the yield now stands at 3.08%. TLT -1%, TBT +1.9%. 6 Comments [U.S. Economy]
- Thursday, May 9, 1:47 PM Massive doesn't begin to describe the move into the ProShares Ultra 7-10 Year Treasury ETF (UST) last Wednesday as the $12M AUM fund went to $833M overnight. It was accompanied by a 53% increase in the $3.75B iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEI), suggesting someone (or ones) making a large bet targeting the middle of the Treasury curve. The moves came following FOMC minutes at which it indicated a readiness to increase QE as needed. 6 Comments [U.S. Economy]
- Thursday, May 9, 6:23 AM "Today government bonds should come with a warning about interest rate risk," a university fund manager tells FT, which says many university endowments have slashed their U.S. Treasury (TLT, TBT) holdings from as high as 30% of AUM during the crisis to as low as zero currently ("everyone" has less than 5%, one manager claims). Holding fast to larger allocations may require a fleetness of foot going forward in order to avoid capital losses if (or when) rates rise, a style of investing not suited to endowment managers. 1 Comment
- Wednesday, May 8, 12:29 PM "There is no safe haven in today's markets," says Paul Singer, speaking at the Ira Sohn conference, and blaming the distorting effects of QE. While not yet advocating shorting Treasurys (TLT, TBT), Singer says those long need to know they're trading at the wrong price, perhaps 50-100 basis points too low. 1 Comment [Breaking News, U.S. Economy]
- Monday, May 6, 3:29 PM This time is different for Treasurys (TLT, TBT)? "The Fed has been very transparent and their transparency should help offset the risks that were experienced in 1994," says JPMorgan's head of rates Edward Fitzpatrick. He's joined in this opinion by others who ought to know better, including Templeton's Michael Materasso and Vanguard's Gemma Wright-Casparius, all of whom attribute the 1994 rout to communication, not a crazed buildup in leverage. 2 Comments [U.S. Economy]
- Friday, May 3, 3:13 PM "Bonds are acting like the bond market is manipulated ... because it is," says Jeff Gundlach, as QE is far more of a put on Treasury prices (TLT -2.3%) than it is on stocks. A salve to bond bulls on a day when the yield on the 30-year is 14 bps higher, Gundlach says yields won't go on a sustained rise anytime soon because QE is going nowhere. A favorite of the bond bears, TBT +4.6%. 7 Comments
- Thursday, May 2, 8:36 AM More on the big drop in jobless claims: At 324K, it's the lowest level since January 2008. The 4-week moving average fell 16K to 342,250. S&P 500 futures remain +0.5%. Treasury prices slip, TLT -0.6%, TBT +1.2% premarket. 18 Comments [U.S. Economy]
- Tuesday, April 30, 9:07 AM "View the 'fruit' debt the way we used to view IBM issues ... perfectly timed in retrospect," says Kevin Ferry, tweeting about Apple's prospective debt offering. Back in the day when rates actually fluctuated, IBM had a remarkable knack for issuing at the cycle lows in yield. The 10-year Treasury yield hits another YTD low, -2 bps to 1.65%. TLT +0.4% premarket. 1 Comment [Financials]
- Friday, April 26, 8:45 AM More on the Q1 GDP (first estimate) miss: Government spending slowdown continues, with real federal government spending off 8.4% vs. 14.8% in Q4; defense spending off 11.5% vs. 22.1%. Real PCE +3.2%. Nonresidential fixed investment +2.1%. Real exports +2.9%, Real imports +5.4%. Real final sales +1.5% vs. 1.9% in Q4. Inventories added 103 bps to GDP in Q1 after subtracting 152 bps in Q4. SPY -0.3% premarket. The long bond pops half of a point. TLT +0.8% premarket. (full report) 68 Comments [U.S. Economy]
- Thursday, April 25, 10:16 AM SocGen's Al Edwards doesn't disappoint his fans, believing the S&P is headed to 450 and gold to $10K. Most interesting is this chart on bond yields vs. forecasts. Forecasts in the deeper past essentially matched actual yields, yet for the last decade estimates have consistently called for "normalization," i.e. higher rates, but it's never happened. "Consensus has still not accepted that we remain locked in an Ice Age environment that will see U.S. (and U.K. and German) yields (TLT, TBT) converge to Japanese sub-1%." 1 Comment [U.S. Economy]
- Wednesday, April 24, 8:47 AM The long bond moves higher (yield declines) following the soft durable goods report. In addition to the weak March print, February's 5.6% gain was revised down to 4.3%, with nondefense ex-transport orders revised down to -4.7% from -2.7%. Higher previously, the 30-year yield is now off one basis point to 2.9%. TLT flat premarket. Comment! [U.S. Economy]
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The Financial Lexicon
$AGG, $LQD, $TLT, $IEF Are bond investors chasing past performance? Here's my take: http://bit.ly/Z0dI7y - View all 0 replies
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$AGG, $HYG, $LQD, $TLT, $IEF, Q1 Bond Market Review - The 'Great Rotation' That Never Was. My article: http://bit.ly/17b8iZw - View all 0 replies
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Elliott Wave International's new free report on bonds and default risk. Just read it. Wow. IEF, TIP, JNK http://bit.ly/UhjDSQ - View all 0 replies
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Christopher Diodato
Quantifying the Bernanke's policy's effect on inflation. This winter's gonna be nasty! TIP, IEF, GLD, IAU http://bit.ly/QWZheC - View all 0 replies
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Bernanke's Friday speech - Future inflation & expectations leading tendencies. IEF, TIP, SPY, TLT, GLD http://bit.ly/SI3Ag6 - View all 0 replies
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neobliviscar: I had the top figured for 4th quarter. Looks like I was wrong for now. But then everyone was calling a top in March.
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neobliviscar: I had the top figured for 4th quarter. Looks like I was wrong for now. But then everyone was calling a top in March.
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Michael A. Gayed
Latest Week in Review Now Available - Can 10 Year Treasuries hit 1%? $IEF http://seekingalpha.com/p/ibrf - View all 1 replies
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DaLatin: Yes it can and if it does market isn't making 30 to 40% up in 2012 ! Remember all my posts on your talks !
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Michael A. Gayed
My Bloomberg segment making the case for why its exactly like 2009 discussing $TLT $IEF: http://bloom.bg/KybVQu - View all 5 replies
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Michael A. Gayed
This is how scary credit spreads looked last week in JNK EMB IEF: http://bit.ly/KwS1Bf - View all 6 replies
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Default to Reality: Thanks for the charts Michael. With the German auction today the flight to safe haven looks like it is excellerating.......
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Michael A. Gayed
One of my best Bloomberg interviews discussing Europe, bonds IEF, stocks SPY, Spring Switch, Bear Paradox: http://bit.ly/J1YHVA - View all 12 replies
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mitrado: May 10, CIC, China's sovereign wealth fund has stopped buying European government debt cause of concerns about economic crisis in the region -
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Michael A. Gayed
Great debate on Minyanville between me and Peter Tchr about Spring Switch out of bonds IEF and into stocks SPY. Check homepage for hilarity. - View all 6 replies
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Josh Krause: Even then they will likely not let it rise too much to keep debt servicing costs low. I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.
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Michael A. Gayed
So Fed dampens QE3 expectations which means no further bond purchases...and yet TLT is up, IEF is up, TIP is up. Who needs the Fed? - View all 7 replies
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USisCorrupt: The FED should have a TRUE Audit and that would fix things in a New York Minute. Is that better?
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DettoTheSecond: Bullish x5! I am still very surprised the majority are not bullish as you claim. See you at 1700+ soon!
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Michael A. Gayed
Bloomberg appearance on why stocks could rally a lot more...discussing TLT and IEF: http://bloom.bg/GVa0BW - View all 2 replies
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x oil -field: Mike it was a bold & bullish call we at SA like bold once again ''you are ahead of the curve'' congratulations.TY X -
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Josh Krause: The market will not turn until AAPL turns as it is a large portion of of the market now. March 7 is the first possible turning point
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Michael A. Gayed
First time discussing an actual relative price ratio chart live on-air on Bloomberg: http://bloom.bg/AuXDnj TIP/IEF - View all 1 replies
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Michael A. Gayed
My length interview at NASDAW discussing bnds TLT, IEF and stocks SPY EEM EFA starts around 10:45 mark at http://bit.ly/xWhehI - View all 9 replies
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Josh Krause: Irrational exuberance. Will end.in tears as it always does. Bermanke will not be held accountanle for this upcoming bubble.
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Michael A. Gayed
Another day which is "risk-off" with yields falling, yet TIP up more than IEF. Inflation expectations getting priced in still. - View all 2 replies
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Michael A. Gayed: Yes - market confusion. IWM and XLF has spikes so probably healthy...see my Lead-Lag Report on Minyanville.