One picture is worth 1000 words.
This puts some teeth in the concept of 'historic lows.'
Ten Year Note Yield with SP 500
Charts courtesy of Ralph Dillon at Global Financial Data
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception
Treasuries are not something I like to go long or short unless they are part of a paired trade. The long end of the curve is starting to look like a viable trade, unless one anticipates a short term stock market event and a flight to safety.
Friday is the Jobs Report.
People who have been holding Treasuries as a long term trade have done well. That trade on the long end of the curve is now starting to look like dead money, but these things take time to develop, and the bull trend in Treasuries has been powerful.
"The CME Final indicates that on volume of 291,445 lots (27.2% or 62,000 lots higher than estimate) open interest fell 15, 107 lots (46.99 tonnes or 2.49%) to 590,685 contracts. On a stock market close basis gold was down 3.66%.
This was the heaviest volume since late May, a period of significant activity somewhat distended by the roll-over. Open interest is merely back to the level of mid-June.
A purely long-liquidation driven drop would most likely seen open interest contract more than the price fell. Some important short selling took place yesterday as well."
John Brimelow
“Gold's huge drop on Thursday is not the beginning of a new major leg down for the yellow metal. That at least is the conclusion reached by a contrarian analysis of gold market sentiment. There does not currently exist the kind of stubborn optimism among gold timers that is the hallmark of major market tops...The bottom line? The sentiment winds will be blowing strongly in the gold market's sails in coming sessions”
Mark Hulbert