Bonds getting murdered here….

Posted by Mike Larsen - Money and Markets

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It’s hard to overstate the degree of carnage we’re seeing in the bond market here. Treasuries are getting absolutely murdered, with long bond futures plunging five ponts in price.(see chart)

 

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The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury Note, for its part, is soaring 21 basis points to 2.07%. This is the bond market’s way of saying that seven long years of interest-rate repression, never-ending QE, and overly experimental monetary policy is coming to a close. That’s bad news for things like real estate prices and REIT shares. But the money coming out of bonds could rotate into “Trump-derivative” sectors like defense and infrastructure.