Preview: Colleague Brett Arends of MarketWatch reports that bond veterans cannot figure the bond market just now. More.
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
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1910 BROKER CHARLES GATES.
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
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| 0:35.6 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with Brett Break to Glass errands about the bond market. |
| 0:41.1 | Earlier, the Wall Street Journal signaled that the bond market was not showing fear, |
| 0:46.6 | not anything close to the apocalyptic scenarios in the stock market. |
| 0:47.9 | What does it know? |
| 0:49.2 | What does it mean? |
| 0:53.7 | Brett explores that and comes up with a very unsatisfying answer. |
| 0:54.8 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:00.8 | Well, the bond market is a different story and I think a more, potentially more important story. |
| 1:07.9 | But the problem here is that the bond market is even harder to interpret at this moment than the stock market. |
| 1:09.5 | I've actually got a story going up on this later. |
| 1:14.4 | There are a number of explanations, and I've been speaking to experts all day, and it's quite interesting, privately, privately, a number of them have said they don't really understand |
| 1:20.6 | what's going on. There is an argument that some of the movement in the bond market has |
| 1:26.3 | simply been a result of technical factors, |
| 1:30.7 | internal technical market factors, an unwinding of a particularly obscure interest rate |
| 1:38.3 | trade being made by some hedge funds. |
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