Showing posts with label Tsunamis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tsunamis. Show all posts

Friday, March 18, 2011

This week in Treasuries and Tsunamis


With the stock market increase within the past six months I originally thought equanimity was coming to the financial markets however with the recent March 11th 9.0 magnitude Japanese earthquake and tsunamis we have word that the G-7 intervened to halt the extraordinary rise in the yen. In wondered how our Treasuries would behave to the news. Below I grabbed a screen shot from yahoo finance of the 10 year T-Note and things weren’t looking great starting the week.


Then, I took an excerpt from Barry Ritholtz’s blog (http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/) whom I visit every day and noticed he posted a note about how the largest Bond manager Bill Gross dumped some a lot of his treasury holdings and asked my who has actually bought the treasuries as of recently. Well take a look for yourself: