Archive for August 14th, 2009

Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to 12 August 2009

“The bond got to a point on the curve where the market was able to digest the supply,” said Richard Bryant, senior vice president in fixed income in New York at MF Global Inc., a broker of exchange-traded futures. “It underscores the fact that market participants continue to see value in Treasuries at these yield levels.” [1] I have no idea whether Bryant meant that the yield was "low enough" or "high enough", although the maturity of the paper might be in there somewhere. In any case, when the phase of the Moon is right and Jupiter is aligned with…
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Op-Ed Friday: When even the bank doesn't want the house

  Sometimes homes have so little value, even the banks walk away.  You’d think this this would be a good thing for the homeowner, but it’s creating problems: Embedded video from CNN Video