The Yield Curve in the News

[edit] See also Steve Saville's discussion of the yield curve. Well, after one down day in the markets why not put up a cautionary article? Quick! Scour the internet... who's…

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Bonds and Related Indicators

The June 18 edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole has a few less stock charts this week in order to ramp up the macro talk, which appeared periodically through…

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Yield Curve Breakout, Weekly View

A look at the yield curve by weekly chart.  Sooner or later one of these breakouts will be real and it will signal the end of the era of confidence…

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NFTRH; Another ‘what if?’

On a similar theme to the earlier update whereby the long bond is seeing extreme relative short interest by Commercial traders, let’s compare the 30 year vs. the 2 year.

The 30 year shows a big build up in net shorts by the Commercial Hedgers.

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Treasury Yields Today

In the previous post we noted how the 10 year vs. 2 year spread closed yesterday (among other things).  Today that spread is rising with all nominal yields rising as…

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Risk ‘ON’

I have a short position against the S&P 500 and despite Friday's EoD reversal and yesterday's down day, as noted to subscribers in an update, I don't feel very good…

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Yield Curve Today

The 10→5→2 spread is settling down again today, with all yields down.  There is little sign of systemic stress today  by this measure, although a more risk 'ON' look would…

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Yield Curve Today; Risk Flies ‘ON’

One thing I like about volatility; it is predictable when it becomes a cycle.  That's not to say this volatile up and down phase will last.  Indeed, it won't.  It…

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