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MBS Day Ahead: 8 Examples of New Year Bond Trading Themes

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by Matthew Graham on December 31 2018, 9:40 AM

This week promises a slow start due to the early close today and full closure tomorrow, but a strong finish due to Friday's NFP and the simple fact that it's a new trading year during a fairly volatile phase for markets. I've talked a lot...
MBS RECAP: Bonds Improve Significantly Despite Stock Market Resilience

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by Matthew Graham on December 28 2018, 4:55 PM

Bonds have had their good eye on stocks for months now. Almost any instance of exceptional bond market strength has come courtesy of exceptional weakness in the stock market. Today was--well... and exception . Stocks and bonds both began the day fairly...
MBS Day Ahead: Are Stocks and Bonds Correlated Right Now? It's Complicated

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by Matthew Graham on December 28 2018, 9:17 AM

As we discuss off and on over the years, the relationship between stocks and bonds is always complicated. At times, it seems as if bond yields and stocks prices are following each other in lock-step. That's been true of most of the big moves in the...
MBS RECAP: Stocks Taking Bonds on Year-End Roller Coaster

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by Matthew Graham on December 27 2018, 5:16 PM

Is this the "big one" or isn't it?! That's what everyone with a vested interested in the stock market would like to know about the ongoing sell-off that's been in play during the fourth quarter of 2018. The record highs at the end...
MBS Day Ahead: Bonds Still Trading Fed Day Range

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by Matthew Graham on December 27 2018, 9:10 AM

Last Wednesday was Fed day and it marked a technical breakout for bond yields. As far back as June 2018, 10yr yields had been bouncing on a floor of 2.82%. Despite multiple attempts, yields never managed to confirm a break below that floor (they closed...
MBS RECAP: Huge Bounce in Stocks Not So Good For Bonds

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by Matthew Graham on December 26 2018, 4:47 PM

Bonds had a rotten day, primarily because stocks had an amazing day (although the terrible 5yr Treasury auction didn't help). In turn, stocks primarily had an amazing day because they had a rotten day on Monday. Looked at another way, in week-over...
MBS Day Ahead: Holiday Week Themes Still in Play

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by Matthew Graham on December 26 2018, 10:04 AM

The title of the Day Ahead commentary on Monday was " Don't Get Too Attached ." In a nutshell, the suggestion was to not get too attached to any decisive move in markets because wouldn't really be as decisive (due to lighter volume and...
MBS Week Ahead: Don't Get Too Attached

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by Matthew Graham on December 24 2018, 9:31 AM

The week and a half surrounding Christmas and New Years Day tends to play by its own random rules. Sometimes it fits in with the prevailing trend (in this case, toward lower yields). Other times it plays host to a consolidation or correction. More importantly...
MBS RECAP: Bonds Side-Step Stock Drama

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by Matthew Graham on December 21 2018, 4:35 PM

After quite a bit of stock/bond correlation in the run up to the Fed announcement (and in the few hours that followed), the two sides of the market have gone their separate ways. This is most evident during the past two days during stock sell-offs. For...
MBS Day Ahead: Glut of Data and a Dash For The Door

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by Matthew Graham on December 21 2018, 8:35 AM

One of the biggest surprises I encountered as I've learned about bond markets (and financial markets in general) over the years is just how big a role is played by human people. There's a tendency to think that the market is so big, complex, fast...
MBS RECAP: Bonds Find Floor Despite Stock Slide

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by Matthew Graham on December 20 2018, 5:23 PM

Stocks and bonds haven't necessarily been joined at the hip for every moment of every day recently, but there's been enough correlation to make today's market movement significant. Simply put, big, obvious breaks to or through new lows in...
MBS Day Ahead: Too Early To Cue The Holiday Trading Vibes?

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by Matthew Graham on December 20 2018, 9:03 AM

When bonds have been in a relatively strong trend for better or worse heading into the 3rd week of December, we tend to see a consolidation or a continuation (rarely a reversal). That's good news for bonds, considering a consolidation or continuation...
MBS RECAP: As Good As It Could Have Gone For Treasuries

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by Matthew Graham on December 19 2018, 4:58 PM

The Fed had a chance to soothe the stock market today by doing "something dovish" with respect to monetary policy or even forward guidance. "Something dovish" might have looked like any of the following: abstaining from hiking rates...
Differences Between Previous and Current FOMC Statements

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by Matthew Graham on December 19 2018, 2:03 PM

Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in SeptemberNovember indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a strong rate. Job gains have been strong, on average, in recent...
MBS Day Ahead: To Dove or Not To Dove...

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by Matthew Graham on December 19 2018, 9:09 AM

What is the sound that doves make? I know they can cry, according to Prince, but "to cry or not to cry" would have been a weird headline title. I'm pretty sure they "coo" as well. "To coo or not to coo" really wouldn't...

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