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1 month yields : 0.15 % 3 month yields : 0.16 % 6 month yields : 0.19 % 1 yr : 0.25 % 2 yr : 0.51 % 5 yr : 1.40 % 10 yr : 2.58 % 30 yr : 3.72 % Dividend yields : http://indexarb.com/dividendYieldSorteddj.html That´s the relative 1 yr performance of futures ...

Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Banks in the U.S. eased standards and terms on loans in the second quarter, even as demand for business and consumer credit was little changed at the majority of lenders, according to a Federal Reserve survey. Respondents to the Fed’s quarterly survey of senior loan...

Some simple R/S and some SMA´s.

Maybe http://www.macquarie.com/eu/financial_markets/index.htm

So how much $ will the primary dealers pocket in with their "risk free trades" ?

:D Steepener capitulation. I adore PANIC. :)

Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Investors are moving more money than ever before out of stocks and into bonds, widening a valuation gap and convincing JPMorgan Chase & Co. and BlackRock Inc. that now is the time to buy equities. About $33 billion flowed out of funds owning U.S. shares this year even...

Treasury prices added to gains on Monday, pushing 10-year yields to the lowest since March 2009, after a report on manufacturing in the New York region came in weaker than anticipated. Short 10 yr 125.19. 129.5 call "protection" in place.

So, everybody bought some put protection 1020-1050 ?

The Chinese economy eclipsed the Japanese economy in size in the second quarter after Japan posted poor economic growth figures for the period, increasing the chances that China will officially overtake Japan as the world’s second-largest economy for the year. The Japanese economy grew at...

So, the yoy growth of 0.4 % justifies a USD/JPY rate of 85.63 ? No way, even if China is buying increasingly JPY government bonds and JPY is sort of a "safe haven" currency. Safe haven for what ? :confused: JPY is grossly overvalued at the moment. BoJ action maybe imminent.

If FDAX 6050.00 => exit, reinvest calls 6150. Ping pong.:)

6150.00 FDAX print. Reinvest 6050 puts / 6350 calls.

National Strategy Minister Satoshi Arai said the government needs to work with the central bank to tackle gains in the yen that risk derailing Japan’s export-led recovery.

Well, lately the OECD held a seminar on "Shifting Wealth: The New Shape of the World Economy" : http://www.oecd.org/document/14/0,3343,en_2649_33959_44628110_1_1_1_37413,00.html A lot of interesting questions have been raised like :  Has ‘Shifting Wealth’ led to a world-wide...

What are you complaining about ? European coffehouses are Chinese teahouses today. The US Dollars, European Euros, British pounds and Swiss Francs are moving south and east. You simply have to accept that the Chinese, Indian, Brazilian and Russian ( and other ) worker wants to have one part...

Maybe a choice for US engineers looking for a job in good, old Germany ? :) http://www.vdi.de/44033.0.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=50667&cHash=4685fc6f5d510c975b43adcce42a4528

TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Saturday that he will "carefully monitor" the yen's exchange rates, according to local media reports. Kan also said he will "communicate with [Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa] in a way that's necessary," though the prime minister...

Did the financial crisis, and the subsequent economic recession, make us forget the underlying changes in the nature of corporate America’s earnings? We started answering this question in our screencast earlier today as we discussed the growing gap between how professional investors and...

As many of you know, Wall St. Cheat Sheet is on a mission to expose some of the biggest frauds on Wall Street. Most recently we did an extensive open-source research project on Nouriel Roubini and Jim Cramer. As a follow up, a new friend Nadeem Walayat posted a nice chart (including full...