Equity Catching Down to Bonds: A Macro Level View of Relative Valuation Trading
Looks like spoos are catching down to the more general basket that defines risk appetite. My read is this will be the trade for a week...
Boaz Weinstein, Bond Liquidity and Chess
Creditflux reports that Boas Weinstein’s Saba Capital Master Fund lost 2.8% in October, bringing year to date losses to 6.8%, according...
What Chinese Credit Markets are saying about the Chinese Economy
Three things are especially concerning in global markets in January, 2015. Spot dollar, DXY, blasted through resistance at 90 and hasn’t...
Abenomics and the Bursting Linker Bubble
Abenomics is something and nothing. The monetary fireworks are looking like nothing. The structural reforms to labor markets are...
Bond Guys, Credit Guys, and Larry the Liquidator
Larry Groves, R.I.P. (1942-2014) Larry “The Liquidator” Groves was a lot of things to an even bigger lot of people. Good-humored uncle,...
Oil and Credit: A Tightening Story
Looks like the absolute panic is over in the credit space. IG energy and HY spreads are tightening even as the oil price continues to...
Oil, High Yield, Correlations, and the USD Short Squeeze
Three year horizon: Oil and high yield showed a complicated and unhappy relationship with each other. Sometimes they moved with each...
Oil Prices and the Credit Implosion
“All that exists is just and unjust and equally deserving of both.” —Aeschylus Markets occasionally give you something outside of your...
Mrs. Watanabe and the Dao of the Sell-Off
Credit is in risk-off mode. And oh the salty, salty comments I have been hearing. There are two three trends right now setting this up,...