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.
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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.
Can only sell it once ,LOL
Our “friends” the Japs stuck it to us.
“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.
PDJT should offer to buy it back,
at Penny on the Dollar.
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?"
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.
And you know the Japanese are selling more than they usually sell... how?
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.
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!
‘ 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.
Dow is UP 1.63%. or 40,000 .
what are talking about
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.
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.
yes, savers have not been rewarded for most of my 30 years of existence. would love to see that change!
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
Unfortunately Bidenflation current/recent has to be factored in also.
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.
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!
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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...
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