Monday Macros
Wild Ride Overnight as 10 Years Hit 1.35... Long Bonds 1.92 ...Then Reverse
If you are looking at the markets for the first time this morning you would think an unchanged market from Friday's close... But what you missed was at about 11 PM last night the long of the treasury market rocketed higher in price and lower in yield...we watched prices gap as buying overwhelmed the overnight liquidity... 10 years got to 1.35-1.36 and long bonds 1.92...5/30 got to 108... The 10 year long history showed the low yield in 10 years before the pandemic was 1.35-1.36 ,both in 2012 and 2016... Funny how that stopped the market this morning... As London came in sellers brought the long end of the bond market back to unchanged... This is key to know showing that there are still reflationist trades to unwind, and there are real sellers out there that do not believe the Fed is actually Hawkish... Equities were also volatile where the S+P futures, currently up 15, were in a 51 point range overnight... So beware of the next moves...
Today we have two Fed Hawks speaking, Kaplan and the one that crushed the curve on Friday, Bullard... Both at 9.45.. Then one of the few doves who has not spoken much in the last year, Williams of NY at 3 PM... But all eyes will be on Powell in front of Congress at 2 PM tomorrow, where he will talk about the economy... This will be the first time Powell could try to walk back some of the new Fed Hawkishness and the yield curve massive flattening since he talked during the presser last Wednesday... Should be interesting... For those that continue to always say that the Fed does not control the long end of the treasury market, look at last weeks announcement.. The Fed, by changing their dove positions to hawk positions, crushed the curve and sent the long bond from 2.21 to a low of 1.92 earlier this morning... A good 30 basis... The more interesting thing is while the Fed did move the long end, we think they did it in the opposite direction of what they wanted..Clearly the Fed wants higher long rates... And Yellen, while now at Treasury, has clearly said that a few times over the last month... We warned that tapering might shift the curve, or at least the talking of tapering would shift the curve... We were right, although we did not give direction and guidance.
We want to expand the week ahead, which will be very choppy, with 14 Fed speakers and bank stress tests, but will end it here so you can see the range overnight in case you missed it...