La seduta ha in parte confermato i trend in essere, debolezza del mercato azionario che non ha saputo mantenere la forza iniziale, oro che ha recuperato la debolezza iniziale mentre altre commodities hanno consolidato.
Cmq il mercato è sempre in attesa di un allineamento della Fed.
Nel frattempo oggi sono risaliti i costant default swap.
The cost of protecting European debt increased substantially during morning trading on Thursday as low liquidity exaggerated price swings and investors showed fresh concern over the health of the US economy.
“Liquidity in the market still isn’t great, so it doesn’t take an awful lot of trading for movements to become exaggerated,” said Ben Bennett, European Credit Strategist at Lehman Brothers. “It’s underperforming the movements of the equity markets over the past couple of days. There may also be concern out there after the dovish Fed minutes. From a corporate perspective what happens in the US economy is very important in terms of default risk.”
The Federal Open Market Committee published minutes from its December 11 meeting on Wednesday, which stated concern that economic growth in 2008 may miss their forecasts.
The iTraxx Crossover index of mostly junk-rated corporate debt widened 17½bp to 371bp from the close of trading Wednesday, according to Lehman Brothers prices. That means it cost €17,500 more to protect €10m worth of Crossover debt against default over five years than it did Wednesday.
The iTraxx Europe index of investment grade corporate debt was 4bp wider at 56½bp, from 52½bp at the close of trading Wednesday.
Per il momento nessuna variazione allo scenario di medio.