Credit Spreads: Are We Seeing Liquidity Tightening?

What’s in Today’s Report:

• Credit Spreads: Are We Seeing Liquidity Tightening?

U.S. futures are solidly higher with European equity markets thanks to strong earnings from LVMH and ASML.

Economically, Eurozone Industrial Production fell -1.2% vs. (E) -1.6% m/m in August.

Today, there is one economic release to watch: the Empire State Manufacturing Index (E: -0.9) and a 4-Month Treasury Bill auction at 11:30 a.m. ET that could move short duration yields.

Additionally, today will be a busy day of Fed Speak with Miran (9:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. ET), Bostic (12:10 p.m. ET), Waller (1:00 p.m. ET), and Schmid (1:35 p.m. ET) all scheduled to deliver comments over the course of the day.

Finally, investors will remain keenly focused on earnings with quarterly reports due from ASML ($6.36), BAC ($0.94), MS ($2.08), PGR ($5.08), ABT ($1.30), UAL ($2.64), and JBHT ($1.48) today.