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To: Red Badger; All
QUESTION: So...from everything I have heard...both here on FR and on the net...color me confused. Why are treasuries trading with lower interest rates today?

The 10 yr note is down .19% as I write this. From what I had been hearing and reading...it was suppose to to rise after this downgrade. So why is it falling?

Makes me wonder if all this talk of sky-rocketing interest rates in the near future is a bunch of fear-mongering.

114 posted on 08/08/2011 8:25:32 AM PDT by NELSON111
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To: NELSON111

The TV experts are saying that Europe is dumping stocks and buying Treasuries ... a flight to quality!


121 posted on 08/08/2011 8:29:41 AM PDT by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: NELSON111

Bond people aren’t as skittish as stock market people. They have a much longer outlook, 5 yr, 10 yr, 30 yr. Stock market people, 5 min, 10 min, 30 min.............


131 posted on 08/08/2011 8:44:45 AM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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