[TigerLikesRooster]

ping!

[the invisib1e hand]

Other worrying signs for bankers and traders include the elevated levels in interbank money market rates and on the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility index – known as the Vix and often described as Wall Street’s fear gauge – which is trading close to four-year highs.

It's far more "worrying" when the VIX persistently pegs multi-year lows, as it has for years now. A spiking VIX means the market is doing its job.

[kcar]

The last two months have seen net outflows of investments in our treasuries by Asian investors. And only small improvements in the current account deficits. So even our government may be feeling the liquidity pinch.

[jiggyboy]

In the money markets, the three-month US London interbank offered rate rose to 5.04 per cent on Friday – 54 basis points above the US Fed funds target rate of 4.5 per cent

This is quite a disconnect between these two rates. Larry "Cassandra" Kudlow is already pontificating that the Fed will not cut rates again at their next meeting on Dec 11 because the US$ is hitting new lows virtually every day.