A holiday-shortened trading week in the U.S. and much of Europe will see traders contend with more than just the end of the first-quarter.There’s a potential record supply of U.S. Treasury bills and notes coming to auction against a backdrop of higher funding costs. That could exacerbate the usual quarter-end funding pressures that traditionally see big banks and other large investors close out their trades and shift into shorter-term securities.In equities, U.S. stocks will reopen on Monday at a key level of support following the biggest weekly decline since 2016. And the trade tensions that drove the global selloff are still simmering away, with some evidence that they’re beginning to feed into currencies.
Source: ‘Vulnerable’ Stocks and Record U.S. Debt Sales Dominate the Week – Bloomberg
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