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Stocks Limp Higher As ES Volume Is Dismal
It seems everyone has positioned for what is to come as today was blah. The volume on the NYSE was decent which is expected given the OPEX but trading in the e-mini S&P futures contract (ES) was dismal - lower even than the 2/6 and 2/13 low levels at what looks like the lowest non-holiday trading day since 2006. A very narrow range day (basically from last night's day session close) with a small pop this morning around the day session open saw the highs of the day but ES tried to inch back up there in the afternoon - as credit (IG, HY, and HYG) went sideways from after the European close. Financial and Discretionary stocks outperformed as XLF made new recent highs (while credit spreads remain near 5 week wides). VIX futures tracked stocks for the most part (with a slight push higher into the close) but implied correlation diverged (bearishly) higher. FX markets were relatively calm with in EURUSD with AUD and JPY (-2.5% on the week) weakness the main drivers of USD strength off European session lows - but USD ended the day practically unch (+0.5% on the week). The USD strength dragged Silver down over 1% on the week and Copper down 3.8% (biggest loser today) while Gold outperformed the USD and ended green on the week above $1720. Oil was the winner up almost 5% on the week - its biggest gain of the year - ending above $103.5 for WTI. Treasuries came back off their high yields of the day after Europe closed with a little more push into the close leaving 30Y unch for the week and the short-end +3-4bps.
Credit did nothing all afternoon (post Europe's close) while stocks limped quietly higher on ever decreasing average trade size...
...but implied correlation bucked the risk-on trade as despite a falling VIX (which limped along with stocks on this OPEX-ridden day), saw macro protection in more demand than micro. This has tended to be a tell for short-term reversals in trend (not the earth-shattering changes that credit and financials are signalling).
Treasuries reverted back to around unch with a slight flattening on the week.
FX (like credit) was very calm today except for AUD and JPY weakness.
WTI outperformed Brent today after they tracked one another relatively well all week.
Charts: Bloomberg
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fuck , the moment i reversed positions in usd/jpy jpy droped.. wtf
i am getting being wrong all week.
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I´d be very, very careful. Just keep stalking the bear, although I might go short APPL next week me thinks...
He's dead right about copper.
yep, stocks "limping" to a 3 year high.
some limp!
meantime how is the ZH 2011 gold-rally-to-the-moon going?
now that is what i call a 'limp'.
It´s going nicely, thank you. Limping in first place among assets in something like the eleventh year?
Your green shoots were made with GMO. Time to get your hedger out dude.
Right post, wrong place. Oops.
If you're anything like your avatar and not a cigar smoking truck driver that wears dresses you can lay your post down anywhere. No problem.
Have not seen much chatter about the fact that Nigeria is descending into civil war. They export more oil than Libya. Look for oil about $125 sooner than later.
Kind of a good thing we don't seem to have much use for oil in the USA anymore, eh?
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Just call blowjob Ben 'bubbles' Bernanke, specialist in faking the Goldilocks economy
when life looks like easy street, there is danger at your door..
+++>...but implied correlation bucked the risk-on trade as despite a falling VIX (which limped along with stocks on this OPEX-ridden day), saw macro protection in more demand than micro. This has tended to be a tell for short-term reversals in trend (not the earth-shattering changes that credit and financials are signalling).<+++
tarbender! give tyler a double!
from Gold Seeker Weekly Wrap-Up: Gold and Silver End Little Changed on the Week
i don't think a day went by this week that tyler didn't remark the dataDissonance; this summary array almost certainly won't copy well, so check the link yourself and marvel at the comic which our heroes are writing:
Philadelphia Fed - February
10.2 v. 7.3
PPI - January
0.1% v. -0.1%
Core PPI - January
0.4% v. 0.3%
Building Permits - January
676K v. 671K
Housing Starts - January
699K v. 689K
Initial Claims - 2/11
348K v. 361K
NAHB Housing Market Index - February
29 v. 25
Capacity Utilization - January
78.5% v. 78.6%
Industrial Production - January
0.0% v. 1.0%
Net Long-Term TIC Flows - December
$17.9B v. $61.3B
Empire Manufacturing - February
19.5 v. 13.5
Business Inventories - December
0.4% v. 0.3%
Import Prices - January
0.3% v. -0.1%
Import Prices ex-oil - January
0.1% v. 0.2%
Export Prices - January
0.2% v. -0.5%
Export Prices ex-ag. - January
0.0% v. -0.2%
Retail Sales - January
0.4% v. 0.0%
Baltic Dry Index is down 60% since the beginning of the year and close to a 20-year low.
I don't suppose we've invented teleporters yet.
Weak demand, slow movement of commodities and raw materials, extreme glut of just about everything obviously has resulted in collapsing shipping rates. BDI is a leading indicator so a crash in commodities in stocks is probably a few weeks ahead.
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