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- Bond Expert: Tuesday Outlook
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities posted minuscule mixed changes in overseas trading. The yield on the benchmark 2 year note slipped one basis point to 1.69 percent. The yield on the 5 year note also slipped one basis point and it trades around 2.78 percent currently....
- External links 2008-10-21
- Bond Expert: Thursday Outlook
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities have registered mixed results in overseas trading, with the longer end of the Treasury curve unchanged while the shorter maturities posted small losses. The yield on the benchmark 2 year note edged higher by 3 basis points to 1.53 percent. The...
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- Bond Expert: Friday Wrap
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities traversed a rocky road today and are finishing the day with mixed results. Across the curve benchmark issues registered their best levels as I was writing my opening piece at 600AM. At that time the stock markets were down limit and...
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- Bond Expert: Monday Outlook
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities are surging this morning as the historic global margin call continues and fears of a deep and protracted recession lead investors to the relative safety of government bonds. The yield on the 2 year note has dropped 8 basis points...
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- Bond Expert: Monday Wrap
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities retreated from the lofty levels attained in overnight trading and are closing the session with moderate losses. The yield on the 2 year note has jumped 7 basis points to 1.60 percent. The yield on the 5 year note has climbed...
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- Bond Expert: Wednesday Outlook
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities have rebounded from the depressed levels attained in late trading yesterday. I can not ascribe the recovery to a particular overnight news story. I surmise that the decline in equity futures overnight which has erased about a quarter of yesterday’s outsized...
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- Bond Expert: Monday Wrap
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities registered mixed changes today in a lackluster session dominated by an air of waiting and anticipation. Participants await the outcome of the election tomorrow and the refunding announcement on Wednesday. Later in the week, participants will focus on the labor data....
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- Bond Expert: Thursday Wrap
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities posted mixed results today with a firm bid in the shorter securities and a dearth of bids in the longer maturities. The yield on benchmark 2 year note declined 6 basis points to 1.28 percent. (I believe the low yield in...
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- Bond Expert: Friday Outlook
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities have posted small and meaningless mixed changes as market participants await the monthly labor report later this morning. The yield on the benchmark 2 year note has edged higher by a single basis point to 1.29 percent. The yield on the...
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- Bond Expert: Monday Outlook
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities are sagging in overnight trading as news that China will spend nearly $600 billion to stimulate its slumping economy sparked robust rallies in global stock exchanges. There is also the small matter of the $55 billion refunding package which begins today...
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- 30-Year Bond Auction: Sorry, Paulson, Not a Good Result
- John Jansen submits: The Treasury auctioned $10 billion Long Bonds and the result was a genuine debacle for the taxpayers. The issue in the jargon of trading rooms tailed 10 basis points. A tail is the number of basis points from where the issue was trading in the market...
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- Bond Expert: Friday Outlook
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities have rebounded from the calamitous levels attained following the release of the results of the disastrous 30 year bond auction. In overnight trading, the yield on the 2 year note has slipped 2 basis points to 1.22 percent. The yield...
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- More on the Bond Auction
- John Jansen submits: Yesterday I wrote a piece about the ignominious and ignoble conclusion of the quarterly refunding with the horrrific result of the 30 year bond auction. I noted that the “tail” cost the taxpayers $175,000,000 and that article has received modest circulation in the economic blogosphere.I just...
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- Bond Expert: Wednesday Wrap
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities posted gains today but the extent of the gains depended on the point on the yield curve at which the security resided. The yield on the 2 year note slipped 6 basis points to close at 1.07 percent. The yield on...
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- Bond Expert: Friday Outlook
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities are posting, on balance, small losses in overseas trading. As of this writing, there is no consummated transaction for Lehman Brothers and maybe the market is signaling a level of acceptance of very debilitated investment banks. Having said that, it would...
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- Corporate Bonds: The Pace of Issuance
- John Jansen submits: Here is a very interesting presentation on the pace of investment grade corporate bond issuance this year prepared by a friend who works at Bloomberg. Issuance is frantic, it would seem: Of late, the IG new issue corporate bond market has been in a...
- External links 2009-03-27
- A Lehman Catharsis?
- John Jansen submits: The FT reports that Lehman Brothers is in discussions with several counterparties as the troubled investment bank seeks to purge its balance sheet of an undesirable portfolio of commercial loans. Lehman values the portfolio at $40billion and the FT story notes that the negotiators have varying...
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- Bond Trader: Friday Outlook
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities are posting , on balance, small losses in overseas trading. As of this writing there is no consumated transaction for Lehman Brothers LEH and maybe the market is signalling a level of acceptance of very debilitated investment banks. Having said that,...
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- Bond Expert: Wednesday Wrap
- John Jansen submits: Prices of treasury coupon securities plummeted today and the yield curve steepened significantly as a reborn appetite for risk dulled demand for risk-free Treasury assets. The increased appetite for risk is exemplified by the surging equity market as well as the resumption of spread tightening for...
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- Bond Expert: Monday Wrap
- John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities registered solid gains today as a host of factors contributed to the market's firm tone. The principal factor in the firmness in the bond market was the reemergence of the risk aversion trade. Spreads in most other investment grade assets classes...
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