From Macro Man, March 19:
Welcome back MM readers--apologies for the unscheduled hiatus last week. I spent a few days enjoying the technological miracles of the US healthcare system. Keen readers may notice I almost never make a call on stocks, stock sectors, or egads….single name stocks--but it is tough for a trader to walk away from a couple of days in and around a hospital without thinking that there is a lot of capital and profit sloshing around in that place.
Since I was disconnected from markets much of last week I’m going to circle back to the widening in LIBOR/OIS spreads that has continued unabated since I wrote about it a few weeks ago. I'm sure this has been to the erm...consternation of more than a few traders like our good friend here:...
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...Actual footage of a macro trader reacting to the latest LIBOR fixings
JPM published this chart showing that the current 3mo libor/ois spread is at its widest post-crisis level.
That’s amazing, given nobody has really noticed outside of this small sector of the fixed income market. Even the 2016 money market reform move made some headlines in the financial media, even if it didn’t penetrate the white hot din of the US election media coverage....
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