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Who will win the election?
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Take me out to the ballgame...
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Faxtor Securities, an Amsterdam-based asset manager with 800 million under management, is readying two funds that will buy first-loss pieces in collateralized debt obligations and other structured finance securities. -
A bond market rally in the days preceding last week's auction of $12 billion of five-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) may have actually weakened demand for the sale, which was the first of five-year TIPS since 1997.
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Nonfarm payroll figures for October of less than 100,000 may temporarily drive 10-year Treasury yields below 4%.
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Frantic investor demand for assets has driven new issues to break at historical highs despite the general lack of call provisions in the loan asset class.
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Who will win the election?
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Danish pension fund ATP plans to start investing in U.S. mortgage-backed securities before the end of the year and could gradually build a position of more than 1 billion in the coming years.
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-- Ethan Harris, managing director and chief U.S. economist at Lehman Brothers, on the upcoming presidential election and its potential effects on the fixed-income market.
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This chart, provided by Citigroup Global Markets, tracks bid-ask prices for par credit facilities that trade in the secondary market.
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Demand for Treasuries may swell if a messy outcome to the presidential election leads to flight to safety trades and could drive yields on the benchmark 10-year below 4%.
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The Treasury is considering creating a new inflation-protected offering that would be a purely inflation-based security, according to fixed-income professionals.
