Tue, Feb 22 2022, 4:43 PM
Treasuries Still Pricing In Some Uncertainty; MBS Underperform.
Bonds had a volatile trading day as markets ...
Tue, Feb 22 2022, 9:51 AM
Overnight trading was volatile at first, with yields falling all the way to 1.846 for 10yr Treasuries. In the first hour of domestic trading, they've...
Fri, Feb 18 2022, 4:15 PM
Would Rates Be Going Higher Without Ukraine Situation?
Rates were rising abruptly as of last Thursday when t...
Fri, Feb 18 2022, 12:43 PM
3-day weekends are generally popular among the "weekday 9-5" crowd, but they can also bring elevated uncertainty to financial markets when the news cy...
Thu, Feb 17 2022, 4:38 PM
Bonds Continue Watching Geopolitical Sideshow
Bonds are in a bit of a lull in the bigger picture. Yields ha...
Wed, Feb 16 2022, 4:11 PM
No Whammies in Fed Minutes, Geopolitics, or Bond Volatility
Today ended up being one of the least volatile t...
Wed, Feb 16 2022, 12:39 PM
Bonds finally had a relatively flat trading session overnight with no Russia/Ukraine headlines sparking any obvious reactions. Stronger Retail Sales ...
Tue, Feb 15 2022, 5:08 PM
Ukraine Headlines Are Noise in The Bigger (Badder) Picture
The overnight trading session was marked by sever...
Tue, Feb 15 2022, 10:01 AM
The downside of a bond rally based on geopolitical risk is that gains can evaporate quickly in the event of de-escalation. That's the theme of today'...
Mon, Feb 14 2022, 3:53 PM
Comic Misdirection Between Headlines and Markets
Geopolitical issues remain at the forefront as far as finan...
Mon, Feb 14 2022, 11:34 AM
Last Friday's big news involved a series of headlines suggesting imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine. This sent stocks and especially bond yields pl...
Fri, Feb 11 2022, 4:23 PM
Massive Reversal After Russia/Ukraine Headlines
Quite the round trip today as bond yields hit the weakest le...
Fri, Feb 11 2022, 11:49 AM
Consumer Sentiment was the only report on the calendar today. Markets typically don't pay too much attention to it and today is no exception. Market...
Thu, Feb 10 2022, 4:10 PM
Bonds Obliterated. Why and What Next?
Today was an astonishingly bad day for the bond market relative to wh...
Thu, Feb 10 2022, 9:45 AM
The history of financial markets is littered with modestly higher CPI numbers that failed to cause any volatility. Today is shaping up to be quite th...
Wed, Feb 9 2022, 4:11 PM
Strong Auction But Bonds Retreat at The Close
This morning's market summary headline mentioned the strong st...
Wed, Feb 9 2022, 11:44 AM
US and EU yields continue to correlate fairly well. This is a blessing and curse--sometimes both at the same time depending on the point of view. Fo...
Tue, Feb 8 2022, 4:15 PM
More Long-Term Rate Highs, But No New Reasons
Bonds were in sell mode right from the start of the overnight ...
Tue, Feb 8 2022, 9:51 AM
1.95% was a tremendously important technical ceiling in late 2019 before covid. It lay dormant for more than 2 years until the early 2022 sell-off put...
Mon, Feb 7 2022, 4:01 PM
Uneventfully Holding Near Long-Term Rate Highs
This morning's commentary centered on last Friday's dark hors...
Mon, Feb 7 2022, 9:53 AM
It was easy to focus on elephant in the room last week as most of the US bond market weakness came in apparent response to Friday's jobs report. But ...
Fri, Feb 4 2022, 5:01 PM
Aren't Bonds Overreacting to a Jobs Report That Wasn't Supposed to Matter?
The Fed already declared victory ...
Fri, Feb 4 2022, 1:31 PM
This wasn't supposed to happen. The bond market shouldn't have cared about today's jobs data. The Fed had already declared victory on jobs and mov...
Thu, Feb 3 2022, 4:05 PM
Weakness Reinforces Range Ahead of Jobs Report
Foreign central bank announcements pushed bond yields higher ...
Thu, Feb 3 2022, 9:41 AM
The European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of England (BOE) were both out with policy statements this morning. Only one of those--the contentious rate ...
Wed, Feb 2 2022, 4:02 PM
Bonds Uninterested in Huge ADP Miss; Another "Inside Day"
For the third day in a row now, bonds spent a dece...
Wed, Feb 2 2022, 10:04 AM
For the second morning in a row, bonds have traded on both sides of unchanged. While today's swings haven't been as big as yesterday's, the lead chan...
Tue, Feb 1 2022, 5:35 PM
Bonds Settle Sideways After Volatile Morning
The overnight session took bonds to stronger levels with 10yr y...
Tue, Feb 1 2022, 12:47 PM
January may have ended on a positive note, and the early morning hours of February may have held similar promise, but as the new trading month begins,...
Mon, Jan 31 2022, 3:57 PM
Wild Month Ends Uneventfully For Bonds
The first 3 and a half weeks of January were not great for the bond m...
Mon, Jan 31 2022, 10:05 AM
Over the years the average jobs report week (typically the one with the first Friday of any given month) has a better chance than any other week to se...
Fri, Jan 28 2022, 4:50 PM
How Meaningful is Post-Fed Rate Resilience?
2 days, 2 rallies following Wednesday's Fed-induced selling spre...
Fri, Jan 28 2022, 12:50 PM
Bonds lost ground steadily in the overnight session, but are turning green in early trading on Friday. Once again, the 9:30am NYSE opening bell emerg...
Thu, Jan 27 2022, 4:10 PM
What do we Make of Today's Bond Bounce?
After a big sell-off in response to yesterday's Fed announcement, bo...
Thu, Jan 27 2022, 11:01 AM
Stocks and bonds both sold off in response to yesterday's Fed events. Stocks weakened a bit more in the overnight session, but have been bouncing bac...
Wed, Jan 26 2022, 4:51 PM
Fed Stays Course on Policy Tightening; Calls Out MBS
As expected, the Fed announcement did nothing to alter ...
Wed, Jan 26 2022, 2:01 PM
The Federal Reserve is committed to using its full range of tools to support the U.S. economy in this challenging time, thereby promoting its maximum ...
Wed, Jan 26 2022, 9:46 AM
Recent major Fed communications have had a tendency to stoke the fires of momentum in the bond market. This began in earnest in September. Not every...
Tue, Jan 25 2022, 3:30 PM
Intraday Volatility But Mostly For Treasuries; Fed On Deck
Bonds began the day trading right in line with ye...
Tue, Jan 25 2022, 10:32 AM
Monday had the potential to challenge the notion of the pre-Fed consolidation in the bond market. If yields had managed to break below 1.70% and hold...
Mon, Jan 24 2022, 3:48 PM
MBS Flip Script After Treasury Auction; Bonds Refuse to Chase Stocks
It was a fairly sloppy day of gains for...
Mon, Jan 24 2022, 9:57 AM
Bonds are off to stronger start for a 4th straight trading session. As such, they're following the same pattern as the rally attempt 2 weeks ago (whi...
Fri, Jan 21 2022, 3:35 PM
Another Green Day But MBS Underperform
Bonds rallied today with 10yr yields dropping more than 6bps by the 3...
Fri, Jan 21 2022, 11:26 AM
Bonds are off to an even stronger start on Friday, largely in response to a big risk-off move that rifled through markets in the last 90 minutes of tr...
Thu, Jan 20 2022, 4:14 PM
Still Waiting on Fed Above All Else
Bonds enjoyed another day of modest improvement on Thursday. On the plu...
Thu, Jan 20 2022, 9:55 AM
For the second day this week, bonds are off to a stronger start. The pattern is similar to last week where yields hit new long-term highs on the first...
Wed, Jan 19 2022, 3:58 PM
Decent Day, But There's a Catch
Bonds improved today! The rally was moderate by typical standards, but it f...
Wed, Jan 19 2022, 10:02 AM
Remember last Thursday? Bonds had done a great job of pushing back in a friendly direction after a huge week of selling kicked off the new year. Tha...
Tue, Jan 18 2022, 3:52 PM
Snowball Selling Continues. Why?
In not so many words, most of the rate drama seen during the past 3 weeks i...
Tue, Jan 18 2022, 10:38 AM
Bonds sold off last Friday after 4 days of relative stability and improvement to start the week. Optimists hoped the weakness was a byproduct of the ...
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