Posted To: MBS Commentary
Bond markets had yet another uneventful day with yet another close inside the same old range that’s dominated the entire week (with one brief exception yesterday morning). None of the movement that takes place in such a narrow range can be considered meaningful enough for us to read anything into. If you’re determined to read something into the movement, however, here you go: Bond markets are quite simply stuck in this range because they had been at all-time-low yields earlier this month and then they underwent a correction during the middle of the month. This week, then, has marked a leveling-off of that correction. Traders closed the positions they needed to close and then decided (logically) that it didn’t make sense to try to push things too far in either direction ahead of…(read more )