Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Note from dshort: With today's selloff in equities, the flight to safety (and accompanying decline in yields) was again driven by the fear of Eurozone contagion.The Federal Reserve officially...

Markets await Spain & French bond actions, UK Oct retail sales stronger than exp, Today's Premium Insights are due before the US opening bell.SPAIN AUCTION RESULTS around 9:40 GMT=====Spain plans...

Things have got a lot worse for Europe in the last week, not only are Italian bond yields back above 7% but this morning’s Spanish debt auction was poorly received. Not only did the auction fail...

We shine the spotlight on one of the 'biggest' stories to hit the European newswires since the EU debt-deficit crisis began two-years ago, a story that the financial media has 'failed' to cover .........

Wall Street realised last night that the European debt crisis would have wider consequences than merely problems for the continent’s banks and the sovereigns to which they belong. As it seems is...

Charles Evans, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President, was on CNBC yesterday and nicely illustrated why bond yields could stay low for a considerable time. At times sounding as if he was running in...

While the troubles in the Euro-zone have clearly been a major source of uncertainty for U.S. equity investors, it’s beginning to appear as if negative consequences will be largely imposed on...

Last week, after the S&P released an erroneous report suggesting a downgrade of France's highly-prized AAA credit rating, European Union Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier expressed his...

Bunds:Bunds bounced from 137.03 and closed towards the session highs.. However we are looing slightly overbought on the 60 min chart and for this reason we should be able to see short term weakness...

Italy will begin selling 5 billion euros' worth of 1-year bonds today to test investors' appetite. The country will also begin selling 5-year bonds on monday. It should be noted that the yields, seen...

UK entered administration after its parent company has filled for bankruptcy protection in the US, on 31 October.After the bankruptcy announcement of MF Global Holdings, the UK subsidiary decided it...

Larry Hirshik is both a good friend of mine and our talented trader at SL Advisors. We’ve been friends for over 25 years. Larry and I both spent many years trading interest rate derivatives...

Bobl:Bobl remains buoyant and can go to the previous highs of 123.83 before coming under a bit of pressure. We are still pointing higher on the technical indicators, but do be careful around this...

Bunds:Another day of strength was posted yesterday reaching 138.54. We are going to be seeing some strong resistance now from 138.91 to 139.19 and we would view to start liquidating longs to these...