Nasdaq Suffers Worst Week In 7 Months; Bonds, Gold, Crypto, & The Dollar Higher

Markets were weak overnight, extending yesterday’s ugliness to close the quarter, but the Merck headlines of a COVID ‘pill’ sent stocks surging into the green ahead of the open. Those gains were quickly removed when Fitch warned that political wrangling over the U.S. debt limit could hurt the country’s credit rating. That was quickly ignored and dip-buyes dived in to lift stocks green (and squeeze shorts)…

Today’s Month/Quarter-open flows ramped stocks pretty much all day and lifted Small Caps green for the week (but that euphoria faded and left it red too), Nasdaq was the biggest laggard still. This was Nasdaq’s worst week since February…

Quite a ride this week…

Small Caps surged lifted them up to the 50DMA (but failed to hold) after bouncing off the 200DMA…

An ugly week overall for the “most shorted” stocks but today’s big bounce was all squeeze-based…

Source: Bloomberg

An ugly week for growth stocks (worst week since February) but despite today’s broad market ramp, value stocks could not get back to even…

Source: Bloomberg

Treasuries were mixed on the week after a rollercoaster ride, offered into Wednesday and bid Thursday and Friday. By the end of the week, 2Y and 5Y yields were lower on the week while the long-end was up around 5bps…

Source: Bloomberg

The 10Y Yield ended back below 1.50%…

Source: Bloomberg

The Dollar ended the week higher (for the 4th straight week), but we note that the intraday regime shifted on Thursday – before that there had been active dollar buying during the European session, Thursday and Friday have seen that reverse with active dollar selling during that session…