by Calculated Risk on 10/20/2008 12:38:00 PM

The yield on 3 month treasuries: 0.93% up from up from 0.72% (BETTER)

The TED spread: 3.04 down from 3.59 yesterday (BETTER)

The two year swap spread from Bloomberg: 111.5 down from 122.2 (BETTER)

Activity in the Treasury's Supplementary Financing Program (SFP). This is the Treasury program to raise cash for the Fed's liquidity initiatives. If this program slows down borrowing, I think that would be a good sign.

Here is a list of SFP sales. Another $40 billion announced today/ No Progress.

The A2P2 spread is 4.36 for Friday from 4.49 for Thursday. slightly better.

Industry contacts. I'm tracking some financing deals there are being held up right now. If these deals complete that would be a good sign (I'll post something when this happens). No improvement yet.

I'll add a couple more indicators, but this is progress.

Note: I'm returning from Zion and Bryce today. I'll be home tonight. Sorry for not responding to all the emails.