{"id":56178,"date":"2020-12-26T12:37:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T17:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56178"},"modified":"2020-12-26T12:37:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T17:37:49","slug":"weekly-commentary-just-the-facts-12-25-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56178","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Commentary: Just the Facts – 12\/25\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weekly Commentary: Just the Facts – 12\/25\/2020<\/a><\/h3>\n
For the Week:<\/p>\n

The S&P500 slipped 0.2% (up 14.6% y-t-d), while the Dow was little changed (up 5.8%). The Utilities declined 0.9% (down 2.9%). The Banks jumped 3.1% (down 15.0%), and the Broker\/Dealers gained 1.9% (up 29.8%). The Transports dipped 0.3% (up 14.9%). The S&P 400 Midcaps rose 1.2% (up 12.2%), and the small cap Russell 2000 jumped another 1.7% (up 20.1%). The Nasdaq100 slipped 0.2% (up 45.6%). The Semiconductors declined 0.5% (up 48.7%). The Biotechs added 0.3% (up 17.1%). Though bullion added $2, the HUI gold index declined 0.8% (up 24.4%).<\/p>\n

Three-month Treasury bill rates ended the week at 0.08%. Two-year government yields were unchanged at 0.12% (down 145bps y-t-d). Five-year T-note yields declined two bps to 0.36% (down 133bps). Ten-year Treasury yields slipped two bps to 0.93% (down 99bps). Long bond yields fell three bps to 1.66% (down 73bps). Benchmark Fannie Mae MBS yields declined a basis point to 1.39% (down 132bps).<\/p>\n

Greek 10-year yields were unchanged at 0.64% (down 79bps y-t-d). Ten-year Portuguese yields gained three bps to 0.06% (down 38bps). Italian 10-year yields added two bps to 0.59% (down 83bps). Spain’s 10-year yields rose three bps to 0.07% (down 40bps). German bund yields increased two bps to negative 0.55% (down 36bps). French yields increased two bps to negative 0.31% (down 43bps). The French to German 10-year bond spread was unchanged at 24 bps. U.K. 10-year gilt yields added one basis point to 0.26% (down 57bps). U.K.’s FTSE equities index declined 0.4% (down 13.8%).<\/p>\n

Japan’s Nikkei Equities Index fell 0.4% (up 12.7% y-t-d). Japanese 10-year “JGB” yields were unchanged at 0.01% (up 3bps y-t-d). France’s CAC40 was little changed (down 7.6%). The German DAX equities index slipped 0.3% (up 2.6%). Spain’s IBEX 35 equities index gained 0.9% (down 15.1%). Italy’s FTSE MIB index rose 0.7% (down 5.9%). EM equities were mixed. Brazil’s Bovespa index dipped 0.2% (up 1.9%), and Mexico’s Bolsa fell 1.1% (down 0.4%). South Korea’s Kospi index jumped 1.3% (up 27.7%). India’s Sensex equities index was unchanged (up 13.9%). China’s Shanghai Exchange fell 0.9% (up 10.3%). Turkey’s Borsa Istanbul National 100 index gained 1.3% (up 24.6%). Russia’s MICEX equities index fell 1.1% (up 6.3%).<\/p>\n

Investment-grade bond funds saw inflows of $2.529 billion, while junk bond funds posted outflows of $896 million (from Lipper).<\/p><\/div>\n

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Weekly Commentary: Just the Facts – 12\/25\/2020 For the Week: The S&P500 slipped 0.2% (up 14.6% y-t-d), while the Dow was little changed (up 5.8%). The Utilities declined 0.9% (down 2.9%). The Banks jumped 3.1% (down 15.0%), and the Broker\/Dealers gained 1.9% (up 29.8%). The Transports dipped 0.3% (up 14.9%). The S&P 400 Midcaps rose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7756,16861],"class_list":["post-56178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-credit-bubble-bulletin","tag-doug-noland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}