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.)
Learn moreQuite the rally in T-bills… continuing apace on Friday, now that the Transaction Account Guarantee has become increasingly, quietly, talked about in the past tense ahead of a year-end renewal deadline.
(Chart of the 1-year T-bill, click to enlarge. The yield on a T-bill maturing in January was close to zero at pixel time) Read more
| Market | Last price | Today's change |
52 week high |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTSE 100 Index: FSI As of May 23 2013 16:35 |
6,697 | -143.48 | -2.1% | 6,876 |
| FTSEurofirst 300 Index: FSI As of May 23 2013 17:15 |
1,230 | -26.34 | -2.1% | 1,258 |
| S&P 500 INDEX: WCB As of May 22 2013 05:00 |
1,655 | -13.81 | -0.8% | 1,687 |
| Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate As of May 23 2013 18:49 |
1.29 | 0.00 | -0.0% | 1.37 |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil Front Month: IEU As of May 24 2013 00:00 |
102.44 | 0.00 | 0.00% | 119.17 |
| COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon: CMX As of May 23 2013 23:15 |
1,392 | 0.00 | 0.00% | 1,795 |
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