This was posted this morning Compare to last night's "Week Ahead" It also seems that our short trades on the January list on foreign banks are off to a good start. I'm guessing as in the past, the euro crisis will ebb and flow as usual and we'll see some bounce in the Euro banks on the trade list, I wouldn't get too worked up about any upside, intraday or otherwise. Later in the week we have the auctions and I highly doubt they are going to show improvement with the "Bond holder haircuts" being floated again. So I'd expect the banking names we have short trades o will probably get hit again later in the week, but the downside we've seen will need a little upside relief which is actually good, we'd much rather see an orderly trend then a bunch of volatility moves.
The specific banks on the trade list for January were posted Thursday 1/6/2011 and include: DB, ING, STD, BCS and UBS. All are down again today with the exception of BCS which has a slight gain of .29%-the rest are down around 1.75% or so today. Any relief of an oversold condition may offer good positioning to open or add-to any trades you may have in those names. Remember, for risk management, if you trade more then 1 of these banks, they really should be treated as 1 trade as they are of course, highly correlated.
Is interest rates about to start going up?
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Yes, I know - it does not make any sense - FED is about to cut
rates...but....real world interest rates are not always what FED wants it
to be.
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