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Daily Market Recap: 12.27.2010
The S+P traded in a 7 point range, closing small up on the day.
Financials did the best, up almost 1%, on the back of the news that AIG
received $4.3bn in bank credit lines. Not surprisingly, today was the
lightest day of the year in terms of volumes.
The VIX was up 1.2 to 17.67.
In
FX, everything traded in a tight range. The USD closed small down on
the day but barely moved during the NY session. Same story in USDJPY
which traded in a 33 pip range all day. The GBP underperformed modestly
on the day although it seems silly to try to spin too grandiose a story
as to why. Tomorrow should be better as NY slowly starts to dig itself
out from the storm.
The ratesmarket was relatively exciting,
finishing 1 to 7bps firmer on a bull flattening move led by the back
end. Liquidity was very thin but we saw good buying from the real money
community. The $35bn 2yr auction went better than expected, clearing
at 74bps (1.6bps through)and the market rallied into the close.
In other interest rate news, the central bank of Israel left rates unchanged at 2.00%, in-line with expectations.
Credit indices inched lower today with the price of HY dropping by 1/16 to close at 102.5625 and IG closing unchanged at 83.50.
In
commodities, crude fell 0.51 to $91/ barrel on renewed concerns that
China’s economy is overheating post the rate hike news over the
weekend. In metals, we saw modest gains across the board with the
exception of silver which dropped 0.30%. Gold continues to trade in a
very tight range closing at 1383.85, up a modest 0.2% on the day.
In
case you missed it, here is our bottom line on the Dallas Fed: “The
Dallas Fed's survey of manufacturers in Texas showed a modest slowing in
the growth rate of business conditions, but at +12.8 it was still in
positive territory in December. The production index stayed almost
steady, at +12.8 vs. +13.1; the index for growth in new orders slowed to
+1.6 from +9.1, and the index of employees shot up to +15.0 from +5.8.
With the growth of orders slowing, significantly, this has to be read as
somewhat softer than the deceleration in the headline suggests.”
Tomorrow
brings the Case Shiller home price data, the Richmond Fed Survey, US
consumer confidence, revised GDP for France, and retail sales for
Sweden.
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How's the BDI today?
BDI is dropping like a rock, now at 1795.
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=%24BDI
sunny
Tyler
Watch USD/CHF...fx cross.
NEver has been in 0.94...
How stocks and bonds can be so "calm" with this movement in Swiss Franc? AWESOME
Inventory Build! FTW!
Thanks Tyler.
24/7 lots of work, tnx
]God bless you
Its getting a little hotter in the kitchen
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/case/ishares-silver-trust-slv-securities.html?ref=rss
Gold in the last 2 hours of trading Monday night and into the first hour Tues morning looks like a seismograph, 1383 to 1390.
I have also noticed that, silver was also trading 29.23 and then jumps to 29.41
It went on for some time I thought Bulliondesk had a problem
Never saw anything like that.
1399.60 and rising...
A good read on silver/monies manipulation and the Fed by Murray N. Rothbard
http://mises.org/daily/3823
never tire of this guy. will have to get another hard drive soon to store all his stuff on... lol
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The Kuwaiti Oil Minister said the global economy can withstand a crude oil price of $100 per barrel.
http://www.kitco.com/reports/nsfutures_Dec272010.pdf
what a dick
You mean Dick Cheney?
no doubt, Haliburton probably works off a percentage on fuel storage.
Well guys gold over the 1400 mark.