As the traders say, the tone is improving.........
Bonds Banging Better... 10-yr +26/32 yielding 3.639%
The market continues to cruise higher with the 10-yr yield pinging around either side of the sticky 3.645% level for the past hour. The market is regaining its flight to quality status even as it appears the machinations by global govts to shore up markets seems to be helping take some of the sting out of the still stressed credit markets. The fix on the 3-mo Libor showed a substantial tightening, at 3.54 while other measures also show improvement with the overnight rate at the mid-04 levels. Spreads continue to flatten, some harder than others, with the 2-10-yr yield spread slipping to 205.8, nearly 9 basis points flatter, while the 3-mo-10-yr is in 7.7bps from nearly 400bps the 15th.
BUT, gringos es en mucho trouble again
Argentina's MERVAL Index Plunges 17%, Most Since At Least 1988
Argentinian ADRs down sharply today following govt takeover of pension funds
Argentina's stock market is down sharply again today on further developments of the planned govt takeover of $29 bln of pension funds. Bloomberg reports that Argentina's Merval index tumbled 10% today, with concern the South American country is headed for its second default this decade... A number of the Argentinian ADRs trading sharply lower include: BMA (-30%), BFR (-24%), CRESY (-14%), EDN (-28%), GGAL (-30%), IRS (-12%), NTL (-23%), PZE (-19%), TEO (-35%), TS (-14%), TX (-10%).