10Y Yields Plunge Below 1.50% As Record Short Squeeze Accelerates (Treasuries Resume Bull-Flattening Trend Ahead of 10-Year Auction)

by confoundedinterest17 (Bloomberg) — The dollar slipped and benchmark Treasury yields slipped to a one-month low as investors braced for Thursday’s U.S. inflation report that may give clues on the direction of monetary policy. The greenback weakened against all of its nine developed-world …

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Investors are estimated to have lost $930 million on their short positions in meme stocks GameStop and AMC Entertainment over the last five trading days

LONDON (Reuters) – Investors are estimated to have lost $930 million on their short positions in meme stocks GameStop and AMC Entertainment over the last five trading days, data from financial analytics firm Ortex showed on Tuesday. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gamestop-amc-short-sellers-sit-110554197.html

Dr Mike Burry (The Big Short) discloses a $534 million put option position in $TSLA today, his biggest position. Wow!

https://twitter.com/realwillmeade/status/1394357154908418052 Wall St lower w/Tech underperform as inflation unease lingers. Nasdaq 100 dropped 0.6% w/Tesla down 2.4% pic.twitter.com/M0ALGstaOv — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) May 17, 2021 $vix again over 20 pic.twitter.com/6eBG5pLo6S — Álvaro Oviedo (@alvoviedo) May 17, 2021 Michael Burry of …

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Bonds vs Stocks and Short Term Returns: Now is not the Time to Panic

by Kaawumba Robert Shiller has discovered a backward looking metric, which he calls Excess CAPE Yield (ECY), that shows a correlation with future returns. He discusses it in a blog post (https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/making-sense-of-soaring-stock-prices-by-robert-j-shiller-et-al-2020-11), but doesn’t go into that much detail. He does …

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Short Sellers Boost Bets Against SPACs

Short Sellers Boost Bets Against SPACs SPAC boom skeptics are betting against deals including Social Finance, Lucid and Lordstown Motorshttps://t.co/vqSd7t1g7Z #lbo #HF #PrivateEquity #pe #mergers #acquisition #deals @ennovance #Hedgefunds https://t.co/azzsNSVX7q pic.twitter.com/msGCjyjdey — Mo Hossain (@MoHossain) March 15, 2021 https://twitter.com/RetirementRight/status/1371344830433955842 https://twitter.com/macro_daily/status/1371335902803464198