Buyers Strike Arrives: Foreign Demand For 2Y Treasury Auction Craters To 2 Year Low
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As bond prices fall, longer-term interest rates rise. And, rising rates are bad news for stock prices.
The Federal Reserve Board sets the target for short-term Federal Funds interest rates. That’s the rate most folks expect the Fed will cut two or three times this year.
Bond investors determine what happens with longer-term interest rates.
TLT has been falling for six straight weeks.
Now it looks like TLT is set to lose the support of the $84 level. If that happens, we could see a quick drop to the October 2023 low near $78.
That would put long-term interest rates near 5.6%, or even a bit higher. We haven’t seen long term rates that high in 20 years.
And, it’s happening at a time when the US Treasury has to refinance trillions of dollars in maturing debt, and when the US Government is trying to pass a budget that will add trillions more to the deficit.
One of these assets is due for an epic reversal. Either Treasury bonds need to rally to catch up with the action in stocks, or stocks are going to be pulled down to match the action in bonds.
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