Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Another Down Day in PrimeX

OK, so I'm going to watch this thing, now, it has my attention. We have another down day for all Prime X Indexes (click on link for current).


12-Oct-11 Overview
IndexSeriesCouponRED IDPriceFactor
PRIMEX.ARM.110.04427B579YAA399.714 [-.098]0.408221747
PRIMEX.ARM.220.04587B579YAB187.732 [-1.31]0.436699618
PRIMEX.FRM.110.04427B57AKAA1103.786 [-.074]0.468172369
PRIMEX.FRM.220.04587B57AKAB992.768 [-.107]0.488982221


The numbers in the brackets ([-.###]) indicate the change from, yesterday (Oct 11th).

More information I found on this topic:

It looks like EU Banks are under pressure to raise the amount of capital held on their books and are, therefore, selling assets including CDSs under PrimeX.  Does this create the selling pressure on that index and is that solely responsible for its drop?  That is, classic oversupply, little demand?

The FT article doesn't talk about this area of the market, directly, but is perhaps me being subject to me simply looking for facts that support my worldview.  Someone says the US market is getting highly correlated, meanwhile indexes critical to MBS are dropping.

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