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The week’s main event, ECB president Draghi post-meeting press conference, has come and gone leaving EUR/USD the best part of a cent lower, but it has been a largely Euro-centric affair with limited contagion to other G10 currencies versus the US dollar, bar the Swiss...
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US stocks have taken the latest rise in Bond yields on the chin, though this cannot disguise the fact that the pull back in the S&P from above 2700 to below 2620 since mid-April has gone hand in hand with the break up in 10 year Treasury yields from just above...
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The VIX rose 10.30% yesterday to close at 18.02 as 10 Year US Treasury Rates hit 3% for the first time in four years. For equity investors the timing could not have been worse. The Interest Rate milestone was never going to spark celebration in the stock market as...
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Yesterday’s trading session has been marked by further strength in the US Dollar, further rises in US Treasury and global bond yields, and commodity price volatility. US equities finished flat to lower, again led down by tech shares (especially semiconductor related...
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Well not quite knocking on heaven’s door, but one of the big news from Friday’s trading session was the move higher in 10y US Treasury yields which are now essentially knocking on the 3% mark. The 10y tenor closed at 2.96%, its highest levels since early January 2014...
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There has been a further step up in Treasury yields since I posted early yesterday morning following on the heels of the previous session’s jump in oil and base metals prices, however those prices having taken a breath and steadied over the past 24 hours. 10...
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