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Bond market sell-off 'severe' as long-term yields notch biggest week since 1982
Yahoo Finance ^ | April 11th, 2025 | Alexandra Canal · Senior Reporter

Posted on 04/11/2025 10:53:10 AM PDT by Mariner

The bond sell-off escalated Friday to cap off one of the most volatile and unusual trading weeks in recent memory as President Trump's tariff whipsaw sent yields surging and stocks plummeting.

Long-term Treasury yields ripped higher, with the 10-year yield (^TNX) surging to its highest level since February to trade at around 4.53%, a massive 66 basis point swing from Monday's low of 3.87%.

According to data compiled by Yahoo Finance, the 10-year has logged its biggest week since November 2021.

Similarly, the 30-year yield (^TYX) jumped 7 basis points to trade near 4.92% — the highest level since January but the biggest weekly surge for the 30-year yield since 1982.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bondmarket; treasuries; trumptariffs; trumptariffwars
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Adversaries are selling our paper (surprise!) and taking a haircut doing it.

Their goal is to change US policy.

My vote is to let them sell and allow interest rates to soar. Yeah, that means a deep recession.

But it has to be done to ensure the survival of the republic.

1 posted on 04/11/2025 10:53:10 AM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Can only sell it once ,LOL


2 posted on 04/11/2025 10:56:00 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Mariner

Our “friends” the Japs stuck it to us.


3 posted on 04/11/2025 11:04:15 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The DemonRATS! The Party of Murderers, Assassins and Baby Killers. )
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“Adversaries are selling our paper (surprise!) and taking a haircut doing it.”

Yep- Like nobody saw this soy-boy move coming?
bwahahahhhaa!

Taking a bath with that exit strategy.
When your enemies are doing stupid shiiite, get out of the way and let em do it.


4 posted on 04/11/2025 11:07:30 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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PDJT should offer to buy it back,
at Penny on the Dollar.


5 posted on 04/11/2025 11:09:35 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: Mariner
But it has to be done to ensure the survival of the republic.

The questions will be:

1) Did it have to be done in this specific way?
2) How will voters vote in upcoming elections in 2025 and 2026 if we are in a "deep recession"?

Voters will answers those questions along with "Am I better off than I was in 2024?"

6 posted on 04/11/2025 11:10:49 AM PDT by Fury
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Yeah, Europe is selling their bonds and they’ll be rightly punished as American will return its manufacturing while Europe continues to deindustrialize and their currency makes sales too expensive.


7 posted on 04/11/2025 11:11:37 AM PDT by struggle
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Our “friends” the Japs stuck it to us.

And you know the Japanese are selling more than they usually sell... how?

8 posted on 04/11/2025 11:12:51 AM PDT by Fury
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Since Jan. 20, the dollar is down 8 percent vs the yen, 6 percent vs. the euro and 3 percent vs. the pound.
The Dow is down 10 percent, the S&P 500, 14 percent and Nasdaq, 17 percent.


9 posted on 04/11/2025 11:15:45 AM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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Psychotic media hatred of Donald Trump...

Interest rates go UP when there is a bond market sell off.

As I write this, the Ten Year Treasury Bond interest rate (4.48%) is LOWER than it was when Trump was Inaugurated on January 21 (4.6%)!

The Ten Year Treasury was 4.7% in May 2024, when Joe Biden was President!

10 posted on 04/11/2025 11:19:15 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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‘ Since Jan. 20, the dollar is down 8 percent vs the yen, 6 percent vs. the euro and 3 percent vs. the pound.

The Dow is down 10 percent, the S&P 500, 14 percent and Nasdaq, 17 percent.’

Feels great to win.


11 posted on 04/11/2025 11:19:40 AM PDT by Fuzz
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To: GrootheWanderer

Dow is UP 1.63%. or 40,000 .
what are talking about


12 posted on 04/11/2025 11:24:34 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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I don’t think this has anything to do with “adversaries.”

Investors — both here and abroad — have no reason to be confident about the long-term stability of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency.

This is what $36T in federal debt and a new $5T increase in the debt limit will get you.

13 posted on 04/11/2025 11:25:55 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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That rate is “higher” but it is not high.

We have had artificially low rates. I know Trump as a real estate guy will always want lower rates. Democrats want low rates so they can borrow more. But money for nothing always leads to excess.

We are seeing the erosion of confidence in the US as a debtor. People are going to start pricing in default risk in addition to inflation risk.

Our trading partners with unfair trade surpluses, how unfair of them to trick us rubes into buying their products, must do something with all those ill gotten dollars. They can stuff their mattresses, or buy something denominated in dollars which can be goods, services, or assets, of which US Government debt is decent option. But here is the rub. What do you get when you sell Treasuries? You get another promissory note called a US dollar. Which is only good for purchasing something denominated in dollars. Seller has sold an interest bearing note for a note that carries no interest and is worth less every passing year. Which note can be confiscated at the whim of nearly any government official.

The question why are they selling now? The question is what has took them so long to sell? As long as I have been on this forum, no one here questioned a debt default (monetary debt and politically induced debts like SS) they only ask when.

We as a nation been living large on the rest of the world’s capital. They subsidized our living expenses, how unfair of them, and lent us money to finance our social spending. They invested heavily in our manufacturing, yes we are still setting all time high manufacturing output records, and housing.


14 posted on 04/11/2025 11:26:30 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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yes, savers have not been rewarded for most of my 30 years of existence. would love to see that change!


15 posted on 04/11/2025 11:40:37 AM PDT by millenial4freedom (Government was supposed to preserve freedom, not serve as a jobs program for delinquents and misfits)
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To: Mariner

From what I’ve read - it’s not really adversaries selling our bonds , but more so that big hedge funds are being forced to unwind their risky bets on treasury swaps


16 posted on 04/11/2025 11:47:22 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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+1

Unfortunately Bidenflation current/recent has to be factored in also.

17 posted on 04/11/2025 11:48:03 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: GrootheWanderer
So what?

All that will be more than reversed within six months and we will have fair trade deals the benefit American businesses and rebuild our manufacturing base.

18 posted on 04/11/2025 12:04:32 PM PDT by Kazan
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Yep - it is so severe that the 10-year Treasury’s rate is almost as high now as it was when Trump was inaugurated. It’s 4.492 today vs. 4.622 at the close on Jan. 16 - the last trading day before inauguration. That’s a whole 13 basis-points! OMG! OMG! OMG!

[/sarcasm]


19 posted on 04/11/2025 12:17:49 PM PDT by Be Free (A pardon carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it. USSC: Burdick v. US)
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Feels great to win.

I can't seem to find your concern troll posts when the Dow dropped 23% from 10/19 to 1/20 or when it dropped 21% from 10/21 to 6/22...

20 posted on 04/11/2025 12:24:10 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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