Hawkish Powell Pummels Bonds as 5-10 Yield Curve Inverts

Fed Chairman Powell pointed to the potential need to raise by 50bp and more aggressive quantitative tightening during a Q&A session today. The result was an inversion in the yield curve with 5-year U.S. Treasury yields rising above the 10-year. Unfortunately, the dollar failed to materially strengthen on his comments and commodity prices continued to move higher, with oil up 7%! (XLE, CCJ, MOS, NOG, OXY, MPC, XLU, HYG, DBC)...

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