Yesterday's Recap
- Low Volume
- Prices rallied between 0.5 and 1 point
- Spreads slightly tighter
- Dow finally sees some decent selling, down almost 200 pts
- NAHB a bit more cautious versus recent months
The AM So Far...
- 10 yr Tsy up to 3.77, 15 ticks down in price.
- MBS Down around 3/8 of a point in the lower stack and 5.0's, taking us nearly back to yesterday's open.
- May housing starts up 17.2%
- PPI Core down .1%, headline up +0.2% versus +0.6% consensus
- Financial Times reporting:
The Treasury plans to force lenders to retain at least 5 per cent of the credit risk of loans that are securitised, ensuring that they have what investors call "skin in the game". The 5 per cent rule - which looks set to be applied in Europe as well - is less draconian than some bankers feared. The proposed elimination of "gain on sale accounting" is to prevent financial companies from booking paper profits on loans - packaged into securities - as soon as they were sold to investors.
- Industrial Production still to come at 9:15
- Non-Data Market Mover Of The Day: Congressional Hearing On Systemic Risk
Charts
2s/10s: 250bps
6/12 EFFECTIVE FED FUNDS: +0.05 to 0.22 from 0.17
LIBOR FIXINGS
O/N LIBOR: +0.0000 to 0.2612 from 0.2612
1 MONTH: -0.0006 to 0.3181 from 0.3187
3 MONTH: -0.0013 to 0.6131 from 0.6144
6 MONTH: -0.0050 to 1.1638 from 1.1688
1 YEAR: -0.0025 to 1.6962 from 1.6988