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Ugly 7 Year Auction Caps Miserable Week For Bond Bulls
Today's 7 year auction capped a miserable week, in which the 2 and 5 Years auctioned off placed at very ugly terms, although none probably quite as ugly as today's 7 Year. The $29 billion QT0 priced at a 3 bps tail to the when issued, replicating yesterday's action, and pricing at 2.43%, the same as last month, but at a Bid To Cover of just 2.62, the lowest BTC since March 2010 when QE1 was ending and the future was unclear. And like during the past two auctions, the internals were decidedly ugly as Dealers had to take up 56.07% of the amount offered: the most since May 2009, when however the Direct bidder category was a non-factor. Indirects continued their trend of stepping away from all issuance and bought just 32.17% of the bond, the lowest since March 2009. Additionally the hit rate on the indirect bid was a whopping 86%. If anyone has figured out just how foreign banks will step in to fund US bond issuance, please let us know, because we are confused. And Dealers will not be all that excited to have to convert risk assets into paper yielding just over 2%, in the absence of the Fed's vacuum pump... Certainly not at these rates. Slowly, the realization that OT2 is not coming a week ago is starting to soak in as the Treasury complex is finally realizing that Gross was right all along. Exhibit A for the past statement: the performance of the 5 year in the past 3 days, whose 32 bps blow out is the 3rd biggest such move. Ever.
But don't take our word for it. Key excerpts from Stone McCarthy's take:
- "today's 7-year note auction was atrocious."
- "The auction stopped a full 3 basis points above the 1:00 P.M. bid side, and the 2.62 bid/cover was the smallest since March 2010."
- "It was the smallest Indirect bid since April 2009, two months prior to the change in bidder classification rules that resulted in more of the auction bids being attributed to Indirect bidders. The bid accounted for just 14.3% of the overall bid, which was a record low."
- "the 32.2% Indirect takedown today was the smallest since March 2009."
Curiously, the bond vigilantes may skip Italy altogether and focus on the biggest ponzi of it all.
7 Year historical results:
The 5 Year move in the past 3 days in context:
h/t John Lohman
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Bond crash?
Ben: rutrow...must. crash. stocks . to keep rates low
If I understood correctly, I agree. The Bernank and the squid have to collapse equity prices, so the "flight to quality" that results, will keep bond yields depressed. When those low rates get free, that should do it.
STRIPES baby...
BOOM, chugga lugga,
BOOM, chugga lugga,
BOOM, chugga lugga,
Oh my F'in God:
WIPEOUT!
(In other words, yup, and the fan can't handle the shit heading towards it)
Bill Gross will be more than willing to step in and buy when rates recognize the risk involved.
sacrificed first: bonds or equities?
eventually both.
then QE3.
I say equities get the rug pulled out to save bonds...last thing Bernank wants to see is his POMO bond efforts wasted. They might slip it in tonite into futures, shave off 300 from the DOW overnite, chase sheeple morons back into worthless bonds from worthless stocks...sounds about right.
Make that 38 bps on the 5-yr.
So what does Chairman ZIRP have to say about this?
You can't have a bond crash, the outcome is predetermined before the auction takes place. The fed just uses it a reserve tool. The US does not need to issue bonds as we have a monopoly on the currency supply. The bond market is a relic of the gold standard days and no longer even needs to be in place, that is why you cannot have a failed bond auction. The government does not borrow and then spend, they spend regardless as there is no need to borrow.
Can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. In theory much of what you say is possible and theoretically correct. But in practice you are wrong. The currency of the land is the Federal Reserve Note - which is issued by private banks and the privately held Fed. Our government must borrow the FRN from them in order to spend it. It does not have to be so, but that's how it is done. The ultimate gift to the bankers.
The US is not sovereign in its own currency.
Yep. Precisely why all things paper will continue to detach themselves from all things physical. Everything will be "fine", as you point out, yet the SNAP participation will grow exponentially. That has a real cost, both socially and economically. As you point out " they spend regardless as there is no need to borrow."
Either way, there is a very real cost for creating capital and then mal-investment. Take you pick, we can end "mark to unicorn" accounting or be essentially forced back to a gold standard by default. Likewise, the Fed can not have asset inflation without wage inflation. The real world and technicals do matter, oil will remind us why, again. FYI idiot - we are paying the Federal Reserve (a private banking cartel) interest to coin our own money when the constitution says we can do it ourselves. Pretty stupid, but nothing another revolution won't fix.
No, this is sophistry at its best. Let Jesse lead the way...
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/02/modern-monetary-theory-...
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/02/modern-monetary-theory-...
Another critique of chartalism (or 'modern monetary theory' as it calls itself these days):
http://www.acting-man.com/?p=7693
That's why they named it the Federal Reserve instead of the International Banking Cabal. To confuse people into thinking it's American...and it worked.
My God! With this system you don't even need a budget! No wonder we've gone so long without one...how long has it been since the last official budget?
Biderman was on CNBC this am and said that QE helped create $9 trillion in equity wealth. So after tomorrow, (the Fed stops pumping in about $75 billion per month), SOME of the buying could come from this "extra" and unsustainable $9 trillion.
There's certainly enough here.....relative to the Fed's $75 billion per month.
And let's look at the five year last year, just as QE1 was winding down---it shot UP from ~2.35 to ~2.75%. Hmmmn, just like last year, the five year is shooting up, as QE is winding down. But then, in May 2010, the 5 year began it's march DOWN to 1.0% in October, reversing only after the imminent effects of QE2 began to sink in and breakevens started grinding higher.
If 2011 is a "carbon copy of 2011" (TD), then why would that apply ONLY to equities, but not Treasuries?
A whole paper 9 trillion..cannot wait for everyone to liquidate at once.
Hhmmm. Inflationary or just plain flamatory? Asset gobbling for pennies on the dollar?
It would only take a small % of the equity "paper" to move into Treasury "paper" for the 5 year to collapse down to 1.0%.
This is exactly what happened in 2010.
Yeah, but the equity paper would no longer be worth 9 trillion.
Of course, that's why I said "SOME".
Let's assume, to be aggressive, that 75% would vaporize. That would still leave over $2 trillion scrambling to seek shelter.
What other asset class---other than US Treasuries---could absorb ~$2 trillion in a reasonably quick period?
(Btw, I'm ignoring HY and commodity sell-offs. How many $ do you think would flood out of those buckets in/when risk goes KaBoom as it did in 5/10?)
You do know that net worth is bollocks?
I dont know what 'bollocks' are exactly, but it sounds bad.
Just imagine the oh so distant raising of the debt ceiling and the flood of T issuance to catch up w/ our profligacy and no BB their w/ infinite fiat to soak it all up...10yr could actually rise to 4% (oh no) or the nightmarish 5% (cover your eyes)...not sure but guessing that would pretty much send housing back off the cliff.
BEN>>>WHERE ARE YOU??? WALL STREET LOVES YOU AND WANTS YOU (and your printer) TO COME BACK AND PLAY!!!!
Tell me again how ugly auctions, higher rates are good for stocks??
Little thing called moral hazard...everybody knows the faster the bond market cracks, the sooner BB and his fiat chopper returns...everybody's already lining up for the QE2 encore, the really big show...so exciting to see what this creative genius will conceive of next!
Thats going to be the funny part, equity junkies all lined up with their crack pipes in hand waiting for Bernank to present them with more Hefty bags of free crack, and it wont happen. No QE3, definitely not in the form equity junkies believe it will be in anyway. Ben isnt going to be pumping stocks with his precious POMO bonds collapsing, sorry its just not happening.
But you know how persuavive crack addicts (w/ lotsa high paid former politico-turned-lobbyists) can be!!! Come on Ben, give it to me or, or, or I'll crash the markets and then where will you be...nowhere, that's where!
Ben's and TPTB only power is fiat creation and dissemination to themselves for free to buy real assets and/or "loan" to sheeple...absent that, what do they have?
I'll play devil's advocate for a moment: Banks borrow at 0% (or negative). Therefore if the long end tanks the spread soars, when the spread soars bank profits soar. Bank profits soar, the stock market soars. You asked for it, there it is.
Can Dexia draw on a swap line with the Fed, putting up Greek debt, and use the US$ to buy UST?
Bond market getting interesting. Got TBT, small for now.
You guys noticed silver today. Geesh, I thought it was going to 20. Nice move in miners in case Robot forgets to post them.
MFN NGD SLW GG stars today and yesterday.
Ironically that silver strike hit right as news broke that the Finance Ministry was burning in Athens.
Lol.
Monopoly, That is an outstanding list of gold and silver stocks. I would add AG to that list.
Better print some more funny money to buy the funny money that pays a little more funny money than it did before the funny money auction.
I assume we are all aready short?
I hope to god you are joking!
You don't need to be talking this trash while the markets in the middle of a rally... lol
this isn't too important as congress will soon balance the budget and we shall soon begin retiring the Debt,...
...maynard.
4% inflation per year is what the chairsatan wants. It is what the congress wants as well.
All this debate is just political theater.
They all go to get drunk with each other at the end of the day. Meanwhile, hardworking Americans suffer.
i know. benzelbub dreams about re-flation, doncha think? so much debt, so little money...must. print. more.
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WHEW! Thank God for that....for a minute there I thought we were in real trouble!
C'mon, don't you really mean for Bond Bullshitters?
Flight to quality - despite the Greek Finance Ministry blazing, money flows away from USD and Treasuries. Is the market that gullible to the transitory austerity of Europia?
Assuming we don’t get a debt ceiling increase until sometime after the August recess (ie government floats some payables 30 more days or so), won’t this shutdown UST auctions until then as well?
The crumbling of bonds is the foundation for a good solid hyperinflation.