MBS OPEN: Range Trade with a Chance of Chopatility
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Good Morning. An essentially empty econ calendar made it easy for rates traders to price in a pre-auction concession last week. The corresponding effect was higher benchmark yields and steeper yield curve (more expensive funding for TSY too!). However, healthy demand was seen taking down the debt and the pre-auction concession was pretty much price back out of the curve…leaving us almost flat on the week. Below is the week over week for the 3.625% coupon bearing 10 year note. On Monday morning, 10s were yielding 3.696%, moved as high as 3.779% over the course of the week, then fell back to 3.703% by Friday afternoon. Status quo was restored after the auctions. On Friday afternoon, the FN 4.0 was +0-01 at 97-28 yielding 4.208% and the FN 4.5 was +0-00 at 100-28 yielding 4.402%. The secondary…(read more)