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In the second massive short-squeeze of the year for Chesapeake 'speculators', the company of the verge of bankruptcy has exploded 35% higher today, perfectly tagging (to the penny) the 200-day-moving-average. Breaking above the McClendon probe/suicide "squeeze" rally highs, at $6.13, CHK is at 5-month highs... as 'modeled' CDS spreads collapse after the management was forced to pledge the entire company to maintain existing credit lines.

Oil & Stocks are back at 100% correlated today - what could possibly go wrong? Aside from the NYMEX Close and API data "event" risks...

As the headline sparked a face-ripping short-squeeze yet again...

Ramping all the way back to scene of yesterday's late-day crime...

Note the Nasdaq (orange) is not playing along with the machines today.

One month ago, when the Treasury sold 3 Year paper the reception was rather lukewarm when ahead of the March FOMC there was some concern that the Fed may actually hike. Now that any speculation of a rate hike has been shelved indefinitely, there was no problem for the US Treasury to sell this month's batch of 3 Year paper. With the WI trading at 0.894% at 1pm, the high yield printed 0.890%, stopping 0.4 bps through the When Issued.

Submitted by Salil Mehta via Statistical Ideas blog,

One would think that active managers would eventually outperform somewhere after the negative press that ensued a year ago.  And now that 2015 performance data has been properly audited and tabulated, we can see what the new results are.  

We have closely watched the spring borrowing-base redetermination period for US shale drillers because for many cash burning oil and gas companies it could mean the difference between survival and a quick death in bankruptcy court, as it represents the semi-annual event that determines if they have enough liquidity to sustain operations for the next few quarters or, alternatively, if they have to hand over keys to creditors.