Levente Mady

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• BondWorks

  Published 16 June 2005 | viewed 4,013 times

  The bond market traded in a remarkably resilient fashion last week, until Friday again. The economic calendar was light and of no consequence, the Treasury…

• BondWorks

  Published 09 June 2005 | viewed 3,340 times

  Only one word is needed to characterize Friday's action in the long end of the Treasury market: UGLY - as in capital U, capital G,…

• BondWorks

  Published 02 June 2005 | viewed 3,296 times

  Trading was subdued in the bond market this past week ahead of the long weekend in the US. That however did not stop Treasury bonds…

• BondWorks

  Published 25 May 2005 | viewed 3,314 times

  Economic data does not seem to matter to the bond market anymore, bonds just keep flying off the shelves like they are going out of…

• BondWorks

  Published 12 May 2005 | viewed 4,579 times

  We had quite a week in bond land: a truckload of fresh economic data, the Fed raising rates as expected, but messing up and re-releasing…

• BondWorks

  Published 28 April 2005 | viewed 4,428 times

  Bonds just don't want to sell off. While shorter maturity issues were somewhat weaker on stronger than expected economic data, the long end of the…

• BondWorks

  Published 21 April 2005 | viewed 4,474 times

  As expected, it was a quiet week with not much happening on the economic data front. Oil traded down and the experts told us that…

• BondWorks

  Published 13 April 2005 | viewed 3,749 times

  Let's take a brief look at the big picture. While the Chinese and Indian economies are screaming ahead with double digit growth, major European and…

• BondWorks

  Published 08 April 2005 | viewed 4,934 times

  First quarter down, 3 to go. While US yields have increased considerably in the 5 year and under sector of the yield curve - as…

• BondWorks

  Published 30 March 2005 | viewed 3,753 times

  The FOMC raised another 'measured' 25 basis points for the 7th time in a row. While the higher rates were well advertised, the market seemed…

• BondWorks

  Published 16 March 2005 | viewed 3,711 times

  The bond market got killed again this past week. As per last week's comment, the market's inability to trade back down through 4.30% on the…

• BondWorks

  Published 10 March 2005 | viewed 4,998 times

  I must admit that this is the second time in a row that I missed a short term trading opportunity and it irritates me that…

• BondWorks

  Published 02 March 2005 | viewed 4,012 times

  I guess we had some more trash writing from the PIMCO talking heads last week. As soon as these guys quit their whining about how…

• BondWorks

  Published 25 February 2005 | viewed 4,890 times

  Below is a commentary published at Institutional Advisors on 21 February 2005. Well, pretty much everything that could go wrong went wrong for bonds last…

• BondWorks

  Published 17 February 2005 | viewed 5,024 times

  Although last week was quiet on the data front, 10 year Treasury yields managed to temporarily crack the 4% barrier, trading down to 3.98%. As…

• BondWorks

  Published 12 January 2005 | viewed 3,444 times

  Here are some of the issues from the big picture that will influence bond prices going forward: 1. Inflation might be relatively high relative to…

• BondWorks

  Published 06 January 2005 | viewed 2,914 times

  Well, now that the holidays are over, it is time to buckle down and start the fresh New Year on the right foot. I am…

• BondWorks

  Published 22 December 2004 | viewed 2,746 times

  We had a choppy week in bond-land as liquidity started to dry up as the week wore on. The Fed obliged and raised rates as…

• BondWorks

  Published 01 December 2004 | viewed 2,882 times

  Interesting to note that what was advertised as a quiet US Thanksgiving week turned out to be official "back-paddle" week on a number of fronts…

• BondWorks

  Published 25 November 2004 | viewed 2,873 times

  Originally published November 22, 2004. Okay folks, the story is the following: next week is US Thanksgiving and after that there will be 3 weeks…