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Treasury yields fall after a wild week as traders assess unexpected U.S. tariff exemptions

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CNBC: U.S. Treasury yields fell Monday as investors weighed a surprise tariff exemption after a wild week of trading in the bond market that unnerved traders.

At 5:44 a.m. ET, the benchmark 10-year Treasury was down nearly 5 basis points at 4.444%. The 2-year Treasury note yield slipped 3.4 basis points to 3.92%.

One basis point is equal to 0.01% and yields move inversely to prices.

Smartphones, computers, electronic devices and components like semiconductors are now exempt from reciprocal tariffs, President Donald Trump announced over the weekend.

The White House said late Friday that the exemptions were made because Trump wants to ensure that companies have time to move production to the United States. However, Trump suggested on Sunday that the exemptions aren’t permanent.

The moves come after a week of unusual volatility in the bond market, with the 10-year yield rising over 50 basis points — one of the biggest increases on record. This comes even after Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause on goods from other countries last week. While the 10-year yield briefly dipped on the news, it still scaled back above 4.5% on Friday. Read  More…

Opinion: Why did I start the week with an article about bonds? In 14 years of  writing opinions on the financial markets, this post shows that a lot has changed. The bond market is now in charge of stocks, real estate, gold, bitcoin and just about every store of value on the planet.

And who is in charge of setting short term interest rates but the Federal Reserve, the culprit in all of the uncertainty and craziness in the markets.

Friday April 11, 2025 Yahoo Finance:

Fed official says ‘absolutely’ ready to intervene in financial markets

The US Federal Reserve is “absolutely” prepared to intervene to help calm nervous financial markets, a senior central bank official said Friday, after President Donald Trump’s tariff plans roiled Wall Street.

The Fed would “absolutely be prepared” to deploy its various tools to help stabilize the financial markets if the need arose, Boston Fed President Susan Collins told the Financial Times in an interview published Friday.

So, as I observe the Monday morning market calls, all is calm. Stocks are soaring, bitcoin is up, gold is down, and bonds as measured by the bellwether 10 year treasury bond, trading lower. All is calm, all is bright.

So don’t pay so much attention to the tariff noise. It was the Federal Reserve, on the week of March 20, 2020 when the markets were in free-fall over Covid, that back-stopped all financial markets with a $6 trillion (printed money) dollar infusion.

And it is the Federal Reserve who is conducting the US pilot program on CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Dollars).  And they will be in charge.

The road to fulfilling Bible prophecy (cashless society) will take many twists and turns. It is important to keep our eyes on what we know will happen after the rapture of the church.

Revelation 6:5-6 early in the apocalypse brings global hyperinflation

Revelation 13:16-17  mid-way in the apocalypse brings the mark (buying and selling) of the beast system

Revelation 18:11 the end of the apocalypse brings the complete collapse of the global economy

(See our paper “The 1% and Revelation: Do Not Harm the Oil and Wine” Here)

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