Gary Smith’s Market Take

April 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Here’s my take on the markets today, April 30th, 2013. If you’d like to read more of my articles, click here. Credit gauges are mixed today. The European Financial Sector CDS Index is falling -3.8% to 147.19 bps. The Spain sovereign cds is down -2.6% to 240.17 bps. The Italian/German 10Y Yield Spread is falling [...]

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My Gut Feeling for Today, April 16, 2013

April 16, 2013 By 2 Comments
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(Due to yesterday’s tragic events, today’s commentary will not be password protected. Tomorrow it will only be available to Platinum subscribers.)  Where do I begin? To say that yesterday’s market would be unexciting and lethargic was an incorrect understatement. Rather the market, nay, the country was subjected to an exogenous event. When that occurs, all [...]

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Gary Smith’s Market Take

March 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Here’s my take on the markets today, March 21st, 2013. If you’d like to read more of my articles, click here. Credit gauges are mostly deteriorating today. The Spain 10Y Yld is falling -1.77% to 4.89%. However, the 3M EUR/USD Cross-Currency Basis Swap is falling -4.3% to -20.22 bps(-23.5% in 5 days). The TED Spread [...]

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Gary Smith’s Market Take

March 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Here’s my take on the markets today, March 11th, 2013. If you’d like to read more of my articles, click here. Credit gauges are mostly deteriorating today. The France sovereign cds is down -4.4% to 73.0 bps and the Japan sovereign cds is down -1.5% to 56.6 bps. However, the 3M EUR/USD Cross-Currency Basis Swap [...]

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Gary Smith’s Market Take

March 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Here’s my take on the markets today, March 4th, 2013. If you’d like to read more of my articles, click here. Credit gauges are mostly deteriorating today. The European Financial Sector CDS Index is falling -2.2% to 159.98 bps(+5.9% in 5 days). The Ireland sovereign cds is down -1.6% to 169.33 bps. The Japan sovereign [...]

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My Gut Feeling for Today, February 25, 2013 ($$)

February 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Did you hunker down this weekend worrying over the Italian parliamentary elections? Apparently the bears sent out a memo to that effect. Unfortunately for them, their emails we were caught as spam. Maybe we should have been petrified about the Moody’s downgrade of United Kingdom?  However, I spoke to some Frenchmen over the weekend and [...]

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Gary Smith’s Market Take

February 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Here’s my take on the markets today, February 11th, 2012. If you’d like to read more of my articles, click here. Credit gauges are mostly deteriorating today. The 3M EUR/USD Cross-Currency Basis Swap is rising +2.4% to -17.9 bps. However, the 2Y Swap Spread is gaining +.9% to 15.9 bps. The TED Spread is up [...]

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Gary Smith’s Market Take

January 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Here’s my take on the markets today, January 28th, 2012. If you’d like to read more of my articles, click here. Credit gauges are mostly deteriorating today. The 3M EUR/USD Cross-Currency Basis Swap is falling -7.2% to -13.6 bps. The 2Y Swap Spread is gaining +1.6% to 16.6 bps(+13.0% in 5 days). The TED Spread [...]

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Gary Smith’s Market Take

January 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Here’s my take on the markets today, January 18th, 2012. If you’d like to read more of my articles, click here. Credit gauges are mixed today. The 2Y Swap Spread is falling -1.2% to 14.2 bps. The US sovereign cds is down -.74% to 43.01 bps(+13.0% in 5 days). The UK sovereign cds is falling [...]

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Gary Smith’s Market Take

January 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Here’s my take on the markets today, January 16th, 2012. If you’d like to read more of my articles, click here. Credit gauges are mostly deteriorating today. The France sovereign cds is falling -1.0% to 86.6 bps and the Italian/German 10Y Yld Spread is down -2.3% to 264.68 bps. However, the 3M EUR/USD Cross-Currency Basis [...]

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