SUMMARY OF FINANCIAL DATA FROM LAST WEEK

 Source:

http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2021/12/weekly-commentary-pandemic-risks-rising.html

Credit Bubble Bulletin
by Doug Noland
Saturday, December 18, 2021

My edited easy to read version follows
Ye Editor

For the Week Ending December 17, 2021:

STOCKS:
S&P500 down 1.9% (up 23.0% y-t-d)

Dow Industrials down 1.7% (up 15.5%)

Banks down 2.9% (up 32.3%)

Transports down 3.5% (up 26.6%)

Utilities down 1.1% (up 11.5%)

S&P 400 Midcaps down 1.9% (up 18.3%)

Small cap Russell 2000 down 1.7% (up 10.1%)

Nasdaq100 down 3.2% (up 22.6%)

Semiconductors down 3.9% (up 34.5%)

Biotechs up 6.0% (down 2.9%).

With gold bullion up $15,
the HUI gold index was up 2.3%
   (down 17.4%)

U.K.'s FTSE down 0.3% (up 12.5% y-t-d)

Japan's Nikkei up 0.4% (up 4.0% y-t-d)

France's CAC40 down 0.9% (up 24.8%)

German DAX down 0.6% (up 13.2%)

Spain's IBEX 35 down 0.6% (up 2.9%)

Italy's FTSE MIB down 0.4% (up 19.7%)

Brazil's Bovespa down 0.5% (down 9.9%)

Mexico's Bolsa up 2.3% (up 18.9%)

South Korea's Kospi up 0.2% (up 5.0%)

India's Sensex down 3.0% (up 19.4%)

China's Shanghai down 0.9% (up 4.6%).

Turkey's Istanbul National 100 index up 2.4%
   (up 41.2%)

Russia's MICEX down 1.0% (up 13.2%).


US  BONDS:
Three-month Treasury bill rates
ended the week at 0.03%.

Two-year government yields
declined two bps to 0.64% (up 52bps y-t-d).

Five-year T-note yields
dropped eight bps to 1.18% (up 81bps)

Ten-year Treasury yields
fell eight bps to 1.40% (up 49bps)

Long bond yields
dropped seven bps to 1.81% (up 16bps).

Benchmark Fannie Mae MBS yields
declined four bps to 2.03% (up 69bps).

Federal Reserve Credit last week
jumped $53.4bn to a record $8.675 TN.
Over the past 118 weeks, Fed Credit
expanded $4.948 TN, or 133%.


US  MORTGAGES:
Freddie Mac 30-year fixed mortgage rates
gained two bps to 3.12% (up 45bps y-o-y).

Fifteen-year rates fell four bps to 2.34%
   (up 13bps).

Five-year hybrid ARM rates
were unchanged at 2.45% (down 34bps).

Jumbo mortgage 30-year fixed rates
down one basis point to 3.24% (up 35bps).

COMMODITIES:

Bloomberg Commodities Index 

down 0.5% (up 23.5% y-t-d).

Spot Gold up 0.9% to $1,798 (down 5.3%).

Silver up 0.8% to $22.37 (down 15.3%).

WTI crude down 81 cents to $70.86 (up 46%).

Gasoline down 0.7% (up 51%)

Natural Gas down 6.0% (up 45%)

Copper up 0.2% (up 22%)

Wheat down 1.3% (up 21%)

Corn up 0.6% (up 23%).

Bitcoin down $1,095, or 2.3%,
this week to $46,402 (up 60%).

SUMMARY  OF  BUSINESS  NEWS:

https://el2017.blogspot.com/2021/12/summary-of-business-news-from-last-week.html