Fundamentals Weaker. Treasuries Rally on Uncertainty.
Redbook Chain Store Sales (week ended 1/3/2015)
– Store Sales year/year +4.3%. Previous was +5.4%
PMI Services Index (December 2014)
– Level 53.3. Previous was 56.2
Factory Orders (November 2014)
– Factory Orders month/month -0.7%, Previous was -0.7%
ISM Non-Manufacturing Index (December 2014)
– Composite Index Composite Index 56.2. Previous was 59.3
Treasuries are rallying because of global uncertainty. Issues are EU/Greece and the effect of plummeting crude prices. We will see the 10-year yield fall through the previous low
of this bull cycle. That was 1.87%,