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Listen Up Muppets: Goldman Wants You To Sell TYM2 - Is The Bond Sell Off Over?

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/14/2012 17:06 -0400

Dear muppets: Goldman wants you to short TYM2 (reminder: a key axis? check; elephant hunting? check; three letter acronym? check). Translation: every bond you sell, Goldman buys.

Last night’s FOMC statement ‘marked-to-market’ the committee’s assessment of US economic conditions, which continue to gradually improve. Attention now turns to the minutes of yesterday’s policy meeting, which may reveal whether easing options were contemplated after the expiration of ‘Operation Twist’. US Treasuries sold off yesterday, and are now breaking above the yield range in place for many weeks. The 10-year US-Germany differential, now at 40bp, is at the widest level since last November. A wider spread is in line with our valuation metrics. But the level of intermediate yields remains about 25-50bp too low on both sides of the Atlantic. Using 10-year bond futures (TYM2), we would recommend short at 129-17 for a target of 126-00 and tight stops on a close above 131-16.

Financial economists make a distinction between ‘uncertainty’ and ‘ambiguity’. Loosely speaking, uncertainty has to do with what we colloquially call ‘known unknowns’ and mostly pertains to the shape (or ‘moments’) of a given distribution of possible future outcomes. How ongoing tensions related to oil prices may affect future consumption and inflation provides an example: we can resort to historical precedents and attempt an answer. By contrast, ambiguity evokes the idea of ‘unknown unknowns’, or risks that are not susceptible to ex ante quantification. The current Euro area banking and sovereign crisis has raised many uncertainties, but is predominantly a story of ambiguities. This distinction, which may appear academic, has actually important implications for asset pricing. Below we illustrate this point in relation to Italian and Spanish sovereign spreads to Germany.

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Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:10 | 2255815 TruthInSunshine

No, no, no - to get the really shitty advice that Goldman intentionally excels in (and fades you on), you have to pay as a proper Muppet for their proprietary reports, damnit!

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:38 | 2255899 redpill

Is this advice from the 89% or the 11%?

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:43 | 2255911 TruthInSunshine

Ehhh...I'm as flummoxed as Greasy Fabrice.

I'll get back to you on that... <looking around for Dan Sparks>

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:08 | 2255967 ZackLo

Main Street to sesame street bitchez!

If only the "regulators " would actually bring one of these fuckers to trial,

Nope only "settlements" now, because who is going to "Make" marks, I mean "Markets" in Government dogshit world round?

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:21 | 2256010 redpill

OT: Nothing is worse than reloading the page and having the hot Sugar Daddy dating chick replaced with T. Boone Pickens' ugly mug

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:29 | 2256038 Schmuck Raker

It's not the page reload, it's the 'Reds' kicking in.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 20:09 | 2256317 thatthingcanfly

So you're saying I should short Sugar Daddy Dating?

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:11 | 2255822 SnobGobbler

some one has to buy that worthless shit, may as well be the squid since china won't.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:12 | 2255831 transaccountin

Just picked up some /ZN 10 year treasury note contracts. Roll the dice squid!

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:13 | 2255833 non_anon

STFU Muppets and kneel to your masters doing god's work!

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:13 | 2255834 mayhem_korner

Listen Up Muppets

LOL!!!

It's time to put on make-up...

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:52 | 2255932 Wakanda

Yo muppets!

It ain't easy bein' Gree(n)ce.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:16 | 2255840 HD

It's time to play the music It's time to light the lights t's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.

It's time to put on makeup It's time to dress up right It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight.

Why do we always come here I guess we'll never know It's like a kind of torture To have to watch the show

And now let's get things started Why don't you get things started It's time to get things started On the most sensational inspirational celebrational Muppetational

This is what we call the Muppet Show!

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:18 | 2255845 Lost Wages

If the market is the Muppet Show, Zerohedge is definitely the cranky guys in the balcony.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:20 | 2255854 Sweet Chicken

lulllzzz well put!

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:21 | 2255856 HD

Those two old bastards are my personal heroes.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:26 | 2255860 TruthInSunshine

Statler and waldorf

Bonus Footage:

Dennis Kneale's Ballad

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:56 | 2255934 greensnacks

Bernanke must be the Swedish Chef.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:43 | 2256084 TruthInSunshine

What do The Muppets & Goldman Sachs have in common when it comes to their audience/"valued clients?":

The Running Gag

_{#JonCorzineInnocenceProject-CorzineIzzaMagician}

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:16 | 2255997 Bunga Bunga

Blamkfein becoming the only human guest star in all episodes.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:50 | 2256113 Amish Hacker

Lost Wages: When the final curtain comes down, ZH will host the cast party.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 21:40 | 2256491 mayhem_korner

If the market is the Muppet Show, Zerohedge is definitely the cranky guys in the balcony.

I resemble that remark.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:26 | 2255864 silverserfer

any rich douchebag who is dumb enough to do business with GS truly deserves to do business with GS.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:34 | 2255885 NotApplicable

Problem is, GS has lots of customers who manage OPM. Like say, maybe your life insurance company, or your retirement fund.

Or worse yet, your local police/fire fighters/teachers retirement fund (not the sort of people you want pissed in your community).

OPM is not only one of the biggest elephants, it is also self-slaying.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:27 | 2256034 Seasmoke

Or worse yet, your local police/fire fighters/teachers retirement fund

What makes that worse, than anything else......and why do they even have a defined retirement , they are nothing more than public SERVANTS

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:31 | 2255876 Stoploss

Yeah, i think we got the squid over the barrel this time.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:31 | 2255879 gimli

Muppets? I'm confused ........... that puts us all on Sesame Street -- not Main Street.

I thought CNBC was Sesame Street, isn't Jim Cramer ...... Animal?

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 19:19 | 2256214 Flakmeister

No... Cramer is Howdy-Doody

Thu, 03/15/2012 - 00:22 | 2256770 Nobody For President

An insult to Howdy-Doodys everywhere!

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:32 | 2255882 The Swedish Chef

Bonds isn´t my thing but thanks for the heads up....

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:37 | 2255890 tickhound

Don't worry about it. Just sign here, here, and... here.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 19:42 | 2256264 TruthInSunshine

"You don't need to read that legalese." (that waives your right to file a lawsuit in a civil court and have a jury hear your case, instead being bound by arbitration as set up and run by Wall Street insiders, in the probably event that we totally screw you over 27 ways to Sunday

"It's standard language."

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 20:10 | 2256320 tickhound

heheh

"Did you hear what I said?.. You CAN'T LOSE. Now, initial these pages... Yep, anywhere."

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 21:18 | 2256441 SillySalesmanQu...

Or, we will conveniently just lose it...

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:36 | 2255888 Johnbrown

Inside tip from 33 Liberty. Blue horseshoe loves TLT. Operation Twist 2/ Twist lite/ QE-Twist/ QE/stimulus/twister coming soon.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:37 | 2255894 Stoploss

Thank You Tommy Stops. U da man.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:48 | 2255924 bania

Someone please tell me WB7 is working on the "Muppet Show Cast of Characters" poster...

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:51 | 2255930 rfullem

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Wed, 03/14/2012 - 17:58 | 2255941 wombats

More like just comic relief.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:02 | 2255951 Yellowhoard

Our Blankfien,
who art in Goldman,
hallowed be his name
Thine kingdom come
Thine will be done
For Muppets
As it is for Partners

That's all I've got.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:20 | 2256006 847328_3527

Can the Muppets sue?.... in Lower Sesame Court?

Do they have at least the same rights as "puppets"?

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 19:08 | 2256164 Tenshin Headache

Muppets are people too.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:23 | 2256021 VanceEva1

my classmate's mother makes $80/hr on the internet. She has been laid off for eight months but last month her payment was $18010 just working on the internet for a few hours. Read more on this web site .... http://goo.gl/NDoyN

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:30 | 2256044 Comay Mierda

REALLLY??!?!?!?! THATS FUCKING AMAZIIIIINGGG!!! $18010 OMFGWTFLOL UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

YOU HAVE SAVED MY LIFE VANCEEVA, IM GONNA BE RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCHCCHCCHCHCHCHCCHCHC!!!!

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 19:20 | 2256217 Flakmeister

Sucking dicks on camera may not be all its cracked up to be.... Just sayin...

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:30 | 2256047 bbq on whitehou...

If you get the chance, i would like to know what the vison of Goldman is. We know what money, power and station are. Do they wish the world in ashes? to be Kans of kans?

What is their vison their dream their goal?

For there students their proto-vison.

What does it profit the man to rule over a world of as and radiation?

If you take everything and leave nothing will not a world of nothing become everything?

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 20:39 | 2256374 lotsoffun

ozymandias - a great poem. they all think they will escape it. as i occasionally post here over and over, blankfein i understand, but i just don't get what motivates bernake. he's just a butt boy for them. and this new thing with the tweets - i mean he have spent a minute or two to look at that. where there ANY positive comments? how masochistic can you get. everybody hates them except the top 1 % - who keep saying 'it would have been worse without the bailouts? for who? as bad as america is, there still is a 'real' economy.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 19:15 | 2256201 defn8Dog

For a fine example of Squidwork, check out the insider trading action in Cobalt International Energy (CIE). The company's stock really took off after the Squid took a stake in Dec '11. It appears not even Cobalt's chief operations officer, who was selling share grants at modest prices right through mid-Dec knew the company was going to hit such a gusher in Angola. But it did!! The Squid knew!! Even underwrote a secondary in Feb to help everyone who watches CNBC get in, and get them partially out. It was a sell-side upgrade party with shares spiking 53%! Sadly, shares are down 5% since the big day, but stay tuned for more stupendous breaking news from Angola including some indication as to when Cobalt will make their first dollar.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 19:33 | 2256227 Flakmeister

Somehow this just fits in what with all this talk about Miss Piggy:

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/mysterious-hog-farm-explosions-stump-scientists.ars

A strange new growth has emerged from the manure pits of midwestern hog farms. The results are literally explosive.

Since 2009, six farms have blown up after methane trapped in an unidentified, pit-topping foam caught a spark. In the afflicted region, the foam is found in roughly 1 in 4 hog farms.

There’s nothing farmers can do except be very careful. Researchers aren’t even sure what the foam is.

“This has all started in the last four or five years here. We don’t have any idea where it came from or how it got started,” said agricultural engineer Charles Clanton of the University of Minnesota. “Whatever has happened is new.”

A gelatinous goop that resembles melted brown Nerf, the foam captures gases emitted by bacteria living in manure, which on industrial farms gathers in pits beneath barns that may contain several thousand animals.

The pits are emptied each fall, after which waste builds up again, turning them into something like giant stomachs: dark, oxygen-starved percolators in which bacteria and single-celled organisms metabolize the muck.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 21:22 | 2256449 Zone1

Wocka, wocka, bitches.

Thu, 03/15/2012 - 00:29 | 2256782 Nobody For President

So how long before some ZH newbie shows up with a "Muppet" psued?

I can tell, Muppets is gonna be a new meme around here for awhile. Can't wait to see what WB is gonna do with it.

And I've finally figured out what Million Dollar Baby is...

Thu, 03/15/2012 - 02:53 | 2256913 cnhedge

will the money get allocated to stocks?

http://www.cnhedge.com/

http://www.jinrongbaike.com/

Listen Up Muppets: Goldman Wants You To Sell TYM2 - Is The Bond Sell Off Over?

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