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Bloomberg.com, and of course, on the Bloomberg. We've got an expert in the in the studio right now. Jeff Rosenberg, he is Black Rocks

chief fixed-income strategist and Gina you know one of the things I want to understand is are people really willing to buy

that 30 year at 3.02% Jeff because unless you're going to it, you're going to get stuck with a pretty low

yield for a long time. And if you are going to trade it, you have to find someone else that's

willing to get stuck with that low yield. So there's a couple of perspectives there, PIM, and it's a great question,

it's a question we get a lot,

but you're seeing the reason why people want to own that 30 year

on a day like today,

duration, having something in your portfolio that moves in the opposite direction of risky assets like equities

is really the reason why people own that so it's less about the absolute level of yield you're not

really thinking about the 30-year Treasury as an income

source you're thinking of it as a stabilizer and on days like today it's really showing

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