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As the noon hour approaches, MBS are up on the day with the 4.5 up 2 ticks to 101-27. Meanwhile, treasuries are still down on the day with the 10yr off 4 ticks, bringing the yield up to 3.381. Without support from some positive price movement in tsy's, MBS may have a tough time moving much higher. On the two day chart, we can see MBS struggle with 101-28 despite tsy yields being slightly lower than this AM: There are a couple disturbing developments in tsys that suggest they may have a tough time of their own with important technical levels. Well, at least they've had a tough time so far today in terms of the 3.38 inflection point in 10yr yields. 3.38 served as almost perfect support all week in addition to it acting as a noticeably inflection point for months. But with the slightly...