Financial data for the week ending February 26, 2021

Source:

http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2021/02/weekly-commentary-regime-change.html

from:

Credit Bubble Bulletin
Friday, February 26, 2021
by Doug Noland

For the week ending
February 26, 2021:

 

GLOBAL  STOCK  MARKETS:
S&P500 dropped 2.4%
   (up 1.5% y-t-d)

Dow Industrials fell 1.8%
   (up 1.1%)

Utilities down 5.0%
   (down 7.3%)

Transports added 0.4%
    (up 6.6%)

S&P 400 Midcaps down 1.5%
   (up 8.2%)

Small cap Russell 2000 down 2.9%
   (up 11.5%)

Nasdaq100 down 4.9%
   (up 0.2%)

Semiconductors down 4.8%
   (up 9.7%)

Biotechs down 4.9%
   (up 0.1%).

With gold bullion falling $50,
the HUI gold stock index fell 5.1%
    (down 16.5%).

 U.K.'s FTSE fell 2.1%
   (up 0.4% y-t-d).

Japan's Nikkei fell 3.5%
    (up 5.5% y-t-d)

France's CAC40 fell 1.2%
   (up 2.7%)

German DAX fell 1.5%
   (up 0.5%)

Spain's IBEX 35 gained 0.9%
   (up 1.9%).

Italy's FTSE MIB fell 1.2%
   (up 2.8%)

Brazil's Bovespa fell  7.1%
   (down 7.5%)

Mexico's Bolsa fell 0.7%
    (up 1.2%).

South Korea's Kospi fell 3.0%
    (up 4.9%).

India's Sensex fell 3.5%
    (up 2.8%).

China's Shanghai fell 5.1%
    (up 1.0%).

Turkey's Istanbul National 100
fell 5.7%
   (down 0.4%).

Russia's MICEX fell 3.2%
   (up 1.8%).


US  BONDS  &  MORTGAGES:
Federal Reserve Credit
over the past year,
expanded 83.3%.

Ten-year US Treasury bond yields

gained seven bps to 1.41% 

    (up 49bps).

Thirty-year US Treasury bond yields
added two bps to 2.15%
   (up 51bps).

Freddie Mac 30-year
fixed mortgage rates
surged 16 bps
to a six-month high 2.97%
    (down 48bps year-over-year).

Fifteen-year rates
rose 13 bps to 2.34%
   (down 61bps).

Five-year hybrid ARM rates
spiked 22 bps higher to 2.99%
   (down 21bps).

Jumbo mortgage
30-year fixed rates
up 17 bps to 3.18%
    (down 52bps).

COMMODITIES:
Bloomberg Commodities Index little changed
   (up 9.3% year-to-date).

Spot Gold down 2.8% to $1,735
    (down 8.6%).

Silver down 2.4% to $26.637
   (up 0.9%).

WTI crude up $2.32 to $61.56
   (up 27%).

Gasoline up 3.9%
   (up 33%)

Natural Gas down 9.8%
   (up 9%).

Copper up 0.5%
   (up 16%).

Wheat up 0.7%
    (up 3%).

Corn up 1.3%
    (up 13%).

Bitcoin sank $9,125, or 16.4%,
this week to $46,504
   (up 60%).