Bonds Analysis & Opinion

The big story of the morning comes from the Eurozone. The sharp drop in EUR/USD below 1.2850 to a low of 1.2831 tells the story of the market today: fear has reached fever pitch with France, Spain and...

2012 has finally started to look a lot like the final months of last year with the European single currency coming under pressure again as the market ponders the probability that a breakup of the...

One of the key factors behind the poor sentiment toward the euro, which was pressed to new 13 month lows in Europe today, is the challenge posed by the sovereign and bank refunding needed this year,...

Morningstar reported through the Wall Street Journal that PIMCO’s $244BN Total Return Fund (PTRRX) suffered the first outflow on its history last year. $5BN left the fund in 2011 including...

The market had been hanging on the long-term Italian debt auction today and it wasn’t the success yesterday’s short-term auction suggested it could be. Although yields fell Rome only...

Note from dshort:The 1.17% decline in the S&P 500 today was accompanied by a further rally in Treasuries, as the falling yields illustrate. The 10-year note closed today at 1.82, a new interim...

Equity markets and risk currencies continue to trade lower as global growth concerns are sending investors back into the US Dollar.  Commodities have commanded a good deal of headline space, as...

Note from dshort: The selloff in equities has, of course, been accompanied by a rally in Treasuries, as the falling yields illustrate. The 10-year note closed today with at 1.92. That is 50 basis...

Bunds:The rally petered out at 137.12 and down we came, breaking through all barriers until reaching 135.30. We have closed at the lows as well...therefore this morning if we open below 135.30 we...

Bunds:Bunds ignored the double top pattern on the hourly charts and drove higher for 137.00. 60 min charts are overbought, as would be expected, so this morning we look to 137.05 as a guide to...

Bunds:Initial moves lower captured 134.55 but from there we saw the market push higher to 136.21. Short term we have double topped at these higher levels and there is a risk this morning of...

Bund: Bunds reversed direction yesterday and came sharply lower to the first 23.6 short term fib level located at 134.08, reaching 134.06. we do now look oversold on both the short and med term charts...

Stock markets soared after the coordinated actions on Wed. Nov. 30 from six central banks around the world -- the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank (ECB), and the central banks of Canada, U.K.,...

Bund:Bunds fulfilled the prediction yesterday and up we came. We have fallen shy of the 136.05 target, but we have at least now made the break above the neckline of this inverse H&S pattern and we...