The narrow EuroStoxx 50 index is now at its lowest in over seven months (-5.4% year-to-date and -12.5% from its highs in May) and the broader EuroStoxx 600 is also flailing lower. The European bank stocks pushed down to their lowest in almost 10 months and are now in bear market territory - down 22.5% from their highs. Spain and Italy are now testing their lowest level in 9 months. While the sovereign bond market had been relatively quiet last week, it started to catch down to stocks today with Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Belgium all giving up significant parts of their Draghi-promise gains. Europe's VIX broke above 26% for the first time in almost 10 months. Think that there should be a flight-to-safety? Think again - Swiss 2Y rates spiked to 10.1bps (remember it was -44.5bps in August 2012) - their highest in 22 months. EURUSD smashed lower in the pre-open US and then oscillated higher in the most mechanically odd manner for the rest of the EU day...
and EURUSD goes robotic...
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Nothing unusual there at all..
zigzag algo having some fun with the EURUSD
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 24, 2013 [8]
Charts: Bloomberg