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Citi Explains The Most Surprising Thing About The Market Crash
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zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 02/13/2016 – 11:20
There are market crashes and then there are market crashes: by contrast to August 24, when the S&P500 melted down before our eyes in a sharp, violent plunge as something clearly broke in the link between ETF and vol models and the VIX itself did not report updates for nearly an hour for reasons that have still not been clearly explained, the recent global market crash has been far more contained, if not outright orderly. Or rather, orderly except for certain products like swap spreads and bank CDS which have seen a selloff which is on par, if not worse, than the 2008 financial crisis.
This, according to Citi’s Matt King, is the biggest surprise about the recent global market crash: how orderly it has been in some products, and how volatile, chaotic, and acute in others.
As King writes, “as relentless and unpleasant as the YTD moves in markets have been, they have also been remarkably orderly. Banks’ share prices may have dropped, but this seems more a response to fears of generalized pressure on net interest margins than of any concern about trading losses. Hedge funds’ returns have mostly varied between lacklustre and dismal, yet there has been remarkably little sign of outright distress or forced selling. And implied volatility across markets, while it has picked up, has been lower than would normally be associated with sell-offs of this magnitude (Figure 1 and Figure 2).”
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Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2016/02/13/citi-explains-the-most-surprising-thing-about-the-market-crash-2/
