by Al_Dente » Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:22 pm
2/12/21 [After zh telling us for many months/year that yield above 1% would be the end of the world, they now say:]
“... a yield of 3% is the number that blows up the world. ...”
STAY TUNED AS THE ARMAGEDDON NUMBER ON yield ($TNX) KEEPS CHANGING.
2/17/21 According to Nomura's Masanari Takada: ...the main scenario is one in which “selling fatigue” sets in with the 10yr yield in the 1.3%-1.4% range, and risk asset markets see no more than a mild impact. However, he cautions that he can "also envision a risk scenario in which CTAs’ move to the short side in UST futures (TY) becomes essentially unstoppable, pushing the 10yr yield to above 1.5% and forcing US equities (the S&P 500) to adjust downward by 8% or more."
...” Global macro hedge funds and CTAs seem likely to ease up on their selling of USTs at a 10yr yield in the 1.3%-1.4% range.
• We would expect only a mild downward adjustment in US equities if the 10yr yield stays between 1.3% and 1.4%, but in a risk scenario in which the yield tops 1.5%, US equities could correct downward more sharply
[$TNX is now 12.75 or 1.275% yield]