Posted on Friday, 17th July 2009 by chrisjones

I only address this topic because I can’t find a lot of good commentary out there about this specific subject.  I’m also no great expert; my experience with social media is pretty small compared to the Great Lords of Twitter and the Ancient Kings of Facebook.  I confess this. On the other hand, since according [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 15th July 2009 by chrisjones

Market: Bonds are taking a hammering the last couple days (off 65bps today), with economic news better than expected.  Empire State manufacturing numbers were, well, not UP, but a lot less DOWN than expected, and core CPI doubled from .1 to .2, so the stock market moved up and bonds are coming down.  This takes [...]

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Posted on Friday, 10th July 2009 by chrisjones

Markets: Doing well again today.  Yesterday broke the string of 5 straight days of rising bonds and falling rates (we have never had, in the years I have been following this, 6 green days in a row, so it was expected), and today we’ve continued the trend of the past week.  Rates continue to improve.  [...]

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Posted on Monday, 6th July 2009 by chrisjones

Market: We’re up 19 bps so far today, picking up 3 bps every 45 minutes or so.  Slow movement on heavy volume.  That’s pushing us back into the low 5% range on rates. Analysis: This is really quite interesting.  The government auctioned off $8 billion in 10-year notes this morning and the demand was very [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 25th June 2009 by chrisjones

Market: So, yesterday we were watching the Fed, and as it turned out there was nothing to see. Bonds ended exactly flat at 0. Today we’re up 12bps and sitting on a multiple resistance line (Note: if this doesn’t make any sense to you, don’t worry. It’s not important in the cosmic sense. I just [...]

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