Posts tagged 'Schatz'

Some positive Schatz

David joined the FT in 2011 as a Marjorie Deane fellow. He covered emerging markets, equities and currencies before making the jump over to FT Alphaville in May 2012.

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| Sep 19 2012 11:11 | Comment |

Reuters: 19-Sep-2012 10:41 - GERMANY SELLS 4.084 BLN EUROS IN TOP-UP OF 2-YEAR SCHATZ AV YIELD 0.06 PCT

That’s Germany selling 2yr paper at a POSITIVE yield for the first time since June, having got rid at zero-yield in August. Investors also bid 2.1 times the amount allotted, the most since January. Read more

Just in case you aren’t bored of negative yield stories yet…

David joined the FT in 2011 as a Marjorie Deane fellow. He covered emerging markets, equities and currencies before making the jump over to FT Alphaville in May 2012.

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| Jun 01 2012 09:58 | Comment |

German 2 year bond yields went negative on Friday:

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Oh Schatz! No coupon

| May 22 2012 15:45 | Comment |

This. Is. Marktverwerfung:

That’s a 0.00 per cent coupon on €5bn of two-year German debt to be sold this Wednesday. Read more

Das transmission

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Jan 11 2012 09:21 | Comment |

Just to warm you up for Thursday’s European Central Bank policy meeting…

Though not many are expecting a rate change, Societe Generale’s Kit Juckes points out that the German two-year bond yield is close to going lower than Japan’s: Read more

ECB fears at extreme, in Schatz options

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Apr 06 2011 13:30 | Comment |

Stefano Di Domizio at Lombard Street Research notes on Wednesday that the put/call ratio on the German Schatz (the two-year bond) has suddenly and seriously discorrelated from the put/call ratio on the Bobl (the five-year bond).

Here’s the chart: Read more

Sei (nicht) ein Schatz!

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Dec 08 2010 13:40 | Comment |

To fail one German bond auction is a coincidence…

To fail two is a bad sign… Read more

Schatz-ing through Europe’s excess liquidity

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Aug 23 2010 08:20 | Comment |

Did you notice the, erm, fireworks in the September Schatz last week?

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