Shares obtained a bump late within the day after the US Treasury introduced it could borrow $55 billion lower than projected final quarter.

It now expects to borrow simply $760 billion in privately held internet marketable debt, assuming an end-of-March money stability of $750 billion. In the meantime, the Treasury additionally famous it could must borrow $202 billion within the April to June quarter.

This led to the charge falling an extra 2 bps on the day. They’d already been down 4 bps earlier than the announcement and completed the day decrease by six bps.

This additionally helped to remove among the day’s positive factors within the . The greenback has nonetheless been unable to get above the 103.50 area of resistance.

No less than for now, the momentum nonetheless seems bullish, however it might nonetheless look as bullish because it desires; it doesn’t imply something till the will get via the 103.5 degree of resistance.

The was additionally greater yesterday, which isn’t uncommon for a Monday. It was uncommon that the VIX didn’t give again all of its positive factors all through the day.

It’s by no means unusual to get up on a Monday to see the VIX inexperienced.

Sometimes, although, that ends in volatility promoting all day, serving to to push inventory costs greater. What isn’t typical is to see the VIX inexperienced all on a Monday, for volatility promoting to not present and the rally anyway.

What was additionally odd was that the implied correlation indexes for the 1,9 and 12 months moved greater, whereas the 3-month index was flat. Sometimes, you don’t see the S&P 500 rally with these indexes transferring greater.

No less than based mostly on a number of components, if I had identified the entire above, I don’t assume I might have guessed that the S&P 500 rose by 75 bps on the day. I might have figured flat to down.

The remainder of this week appears much less clear, given a slew of financial information factors, earnings stories, the , and the way the Treasury intends to difficulty all of this internet debt.

Issues may get extra attention-grabbing right this moment.

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