haaaaang on - your prediction that dec 26 was a bad day because a bad thing happened once on dec 26? really??
you are paying commission on those fake trades aren't you?
Think that's probably true in equity land. In fixed income land, bloomberg is the industry standard for everything from calculations to ticket...
You say it's a tongue in cheek - okay - then in the next paragraph you go back to dumping on the NFL about east coast pansies? So is what you said...
So it's a lame a bunch of philly as*hole fans who gets stupid drunk and belligerent at the games don't run over other people in dangerous snow...
I could be wrong - but we have about 100 bloomberg terminals across all the desks and the IT guy in charge of them once told me that Bloomberg...
You need the change in the implied vol of your options, not the vol index.
should be 2:15 EST; maybe someone got the time zone wrong?
Don't be silly; I see +910/930 market.
Um... unless I'm looking at the ICI report wrong (which I could, given I glanced at it quickly), it says that in 2010 the (%) of households...
I heard what martingoul heard; not a peep about china from either dealers with strong london desks or strong japanese desks.
Um... where do you see that? (I'm not challenging - I haven't paid much attention to retail flow) However, I do know that institutional flow...
Investors?? You know the syndication desk doesn't keep the stock right?
That's not exactly true. Vast (as in the overwhelming majority) amount of stocks are held in (state, union, etc) pension funds, mutual funds...
It's not. I think it's a point oft confused; QE1 was to create liquidity. QE2 is to affect growth through what Bernanke called the 'portfolio...
Then there's the curve component too since the cheapest to delv for the 10y fut is the T 4.25 11/17s. The 11/17s trade at a spread to the 10y...
whoops... I thought you were referring to the 12/14 PPI numbers. Nevermind what I said then.
Kind of.... Suvey is 3.3%.
What do you mean by 'london'? None of the commentaries I read this morning coming from london desks mentioned anything about this. If this were...
5%+.... That's really really doubtful. I'll take the other side of that bet any day. If that's the case, 10Y TIPS breakevens should be flying......
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