Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Credit/Industry Groups

 Commodities (brown) vs the SPX (green) There's a significant lag in commodities vs the SPX, I would guess partly due to oil, but that doesn't account for the totality of the disconnect, which is especially strange on a day in which the Euro is up and the dollar down.

 High Yield Corp. Bonds also have not shared in the initial market excitement, I suspect the reason has more to do with credit moving according to risk and the market is moving in line with the Euro. Credit almost always leads equities.

 XLE is underperforming, but that is easy to explain given the oil inventories

 Financials are starting to divergence with the SPX as well, remember the SPX has about 22% of its market cap in financials.

Most bizarre is Tech's relative underperformance, but again tech is less influenced by the Euro.

I'd say the High Yield Credit is the most significant chart.

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