Not Reading Too Much Into Late Day Reversal

Bonds rallied quickly in response to this morning's jobs report and pressed to even stronger levels by mid-day. That's the point in the day that most traders (the ones actually working) consider bonds to be "closed." You're free to do the same and count today as a win. But in the noon-2pm hour, a decent chunk of the AM gains were erased. We wouldn't read too much into those and instead view them as a facet of pre-holiday-weekend illiquidity and/or position squaring. This doesn't imply directionality in the future. It just means we have to wait for next week to get a clean read on market sentiment.

Econ Data / Events
    • Average earnings mm (Jun)
      • 0.3% vs 0.3% f'cast, 0.3% prev
    • Continued Claims (Jun)/20
      • 1,814K vs 1810K f'cast, 1821K prev
    • Jobless Claims (Jun)/27
      • 215K vs 220K f'cast, 215K prev
    • Non Farm Payrolls (Jun)
      • 57K vs 110K f'cast, 172K prev
    • Participation Rate (Jun)
      • 61.5% vs -- f'cast, 61.8% prev
    • Unemployment rate mm (Jun)
      • 4.2% vs 4.3% f'cast, 4.3% prev
Market Movement Recap
08:25 AM

Weaker overnight with 10yr up 2bps at 4.502 and MBS down an eighth.

08:31 AM

Moving back into positive territory after jobs report. MB now unchanged and 10yr down 1bp at 4.47

12:16 PM

MBS up 5 ticks (.16) and 10yr down 1.2bps at 4.469

01:48 PM

weakest post-data levels with 10yr up 1bp at 4.49 and MBS now unchanged. 

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