So far today, we have a moderate amount of incidental strength to offset the slightly larger amount of incidental weakness last week.  Bond markets continue to take cues much more readily from tradeflow considerations than from economic data.

Several big Treasury futures/options trades have helped paint a picture of short-covering (traders sell Treasuries short and subsequently are forced in as buyers in order to cover the short) and year-end curve trading (maintaining the same overall investment in Treasuries, but shifting between maturities.  For instance, note that 30yr bonds are down 4.8bps today vs 2yr Notes down only 1.16bps).

Apart from that, not much else has been going on.  Markets certainly haven't done much, if anything, to react to Pending Home Sales, which came in weaker than expected but technically higher (101.7 vs a downwardly revised 101.5).