Stocks Soar Most In 13 Months After Worst European Terrorist Attack In Over A Decade

Quite a week eh? “I don’t care… I want to trade size and be a big swinging dick… I’m gonna make it rain!!”

A quick summary of the week…

Paris Population Down 130 people- worst European terrorist attack since Madrid (190 people) in 2004

S&P Up 3.3% – best week since Bullard Bounce Oct 2014

EM Stocks Up 4.5% – best week in 2 months

Gold Down 0.4% – 5th weekly drop in a row, lowest since Oct 09

Silver Down 0.7% – 5th weekly drop in a row, lowest since July 09

Crude Down 0.5% – 5th drop in last 6 weeks, lowest since August

Copper Down 5.3% – worst week sicne Dec 2014, down 6 weeks in a row to lowest since April 2009

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Let’s start with stocks… From worst week of the year last week to best week since October 2014’s Bullard Bounce…

Futures show the real exuberance though… Sunday night’s open marked the low after 100-plus people had been killed, and Paris was under martial law…Nasdaq +5% off Sunday night lows!!

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The Devil’s in the Divergences…

Bonds and stocks…

Credit and stocks…

Trannies and oil…

Credit and equity risk…

Stocks and the yield curve…

And finally FX carry and stocks…

A few individual stocks mattered today…

Chipotle poisoned some folks…

Hope is high that Valeant is fixed (thanks to a Citi debt upgrade)

And then there’s Netflix!!! Up almost 20% this week!!!! An $8.6bn rise in market cap in one week… the most ever.

Treasury yields were extremely mixed – following FOMC Minutes – with 2Y up 8bps and 30Y -3bps on the week… 2Y highest weekly close since April 2010, 30Y yields lower for 2 straight weeks first time since August…