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After being negative on bonds earlier, she now sees tactical value in government bonds, especially the long end, because more rate hikes are now priced at the front end and inflation should be well behaved.

Hanke says investors should stay away from bonds, especially long bonds, because money supply growth is accelerating (7.9% YoY versus 5.4% last year) and with a 12-24 month lag that will push inflation and bond yields higher. He expects the 10-year and 30-year Treasury yields could rise another 50 basis points into a 'red zone', with additional pressure from the Iran war, fiscal deficits, and bond vigilantes.

Rising yields are not a US-only problem: global government bond yields have climbed back to 2023 levels because governments issued large amounts of debt and money's price rose with stronger economies and infrastructure investment in Europe, Korea, Taiwan/Japan and the US, with war adding extra pressure. US 10-year yields near 4.8 are approaching the estimated appropriate level around 5.1, so global sovereign bond prices remain unattractive.

US 10-year yields are now near 4.8% and Japan's 10-year yield has reached 3%, the highest since 1996. Park reads this as a serious risk signal because the growth rate is lower than in past crisis episodes, and he says if US yields reach 5% it would be genuinely dangerous. He adds that the Fed may hike to anchor long yields, which could pull long yields down, but starting a tightening cycle would tighten all asset markets, so he treats the 4.8-5% area as a critical regime to monitor and wants a more conservative posture.

The global bond selloff is back as Japan, Australia, UK, France and the U.S. all weakened; oil is one factor but heavy September corporate issuance of about $215 billion, including price-agnostic hyperscaler debt in the long end, competes with indebted G10 sovereigns that need to keep selling bonds, keeping upward pressure on yields.

She would look to extend duration once the US 10-year Treasury yield reaches about 5%, a level she views as quite attractive.

After Jackson Hole the market prices roughly 60% odds of a September Fed rate hike and at least one hike within the year; 10-year and 30-year Treasury yields have already moved up and remain elevated. Fiscal deficits are making Treasury supply larger while big tech capex is creating heavy corporate bond supply, so investors demand higher term premium on long-dated Treasuries. Treasury buybacks merely roll debt rather than fix fundamentals, and the Fed retains QT optionality, so long-end rates are likely to stay elevated or biased upward.

He argues that markets are misreading Warsh's Jackson Hole speech as hawkish and that a September Fed hike is unlikely because inflation and employment trends do not justify it; the government is actively trying to ease liquidity and lower rates, so Treasury yields should stabilize or decline into the FOMC, putting bond-market shorts at risk.

If the Fed delivers a serious commitment to 2% with additional hikes, the market will price slower economic activity and yields should eventually move lower; 5% on the 10-year is not the end of the world, and after a near-term high, Treasury prices are expected to rally with yields falling over the next two to three months.

David sees the Treasury actively managing the long end of the yield curve and believes the market is underestimating its firepower. He thinks long-end bond yields have already peaked, which would support bonds and risk assets, and he takes the other side of critics who say the buybacks are just debt reshuffling.

Steve Liesman reads Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech as overall hawkish: Warsh signaled the Fed still has work to do on inflation, and Liesman notes market-implied odds of a September rate hike jumped to about 56% from roughly 30-35% before the speech, with December near 86%. Liesman says the market's hawkish take 'may be the right call here,' consistent with the two-year and ten-year Treasury yields bouncing higher.

Author identifies 10-year yield above 5% as a key bearish catalyst for equities, as rising rates would signal the Fed falling behind the curve, potentially forcing more aggressive tightening. This is a macro risk trigger to monitor.

Tchir argues the Treasury market is driven by supply and demand, not bond vigilantes: there are plenty of buyers for 10-year Treasuries around 5% and buying was seen at 4.80%, so Fed Chair Warsh does not run much risk of losing control of bonds.

Hedge funds are actively pushing for higher yields, and if the US 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5%, it will become very difficult to sustain the AI trade and broader equity valuations.

US Treasury intervention in the bond market has made risk-free capital artificially low and gives policymakers tools to hurt bond shorts, so he would be very careful being short bonds; current 10-year yields are accommodative relative to 5%-5.5% nominal GDP, meaning the market is distorted and policy is treating the symptom rather than the underlying fiscal problem.

Pies argues the market is mispricing the September Fed decision because the meeting is a coin flip and the odds were pushed down to 30-40% despite data that does not alleviate political pressure. If the Fed hikes, he expects the 2-year Treasury yield to rise about 20bp and the 10-year about 12bp per 25bp hike, producing a bear flattening; he rejects the idea that a credibility-restoring hike would bring the 10-year yield down.

The main market risk is rates, not AI: if the 10-year Treasury yield reaches around 5.0% or the 30-year yield reaches 5.7-5.8%, U.S. stocks could fall 10-15% and Korean stocks could give back about half; these levels are the trigger to watch.

Kim expects the US 10-year Treasury yield may peak around August-September because the Treasury's TGA account is being used to buy long-term Treasuries and the November election raises the incentive to keep long yields down. He points to 2022 as evidence that after long rates finally peaked, equities rebounded and eventually broke prior highs. He frames the 10-year Treasury yield as the key signal to watch for a rebound in beaten-down stocks such as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix.

The US Treasury's buyback program is failing to pull long-term government bond yields lower; after brief improvement, long-end yields recovered and then kept climbing. That signals the Treasury's medicine is losing effectiveness, raises fiscal crisis concerns, and makes long-term US Treasuries unattractive while acting as a headwind for US equities and risk assets.

Zervos argues the Treasury Department's debt buyback program is a tactical Operation Twist-style move that has been hugely successful when the Fed used it, and that the Treasury holds all the firepower. He expects the buybacks to cap the upper end of the two-year 10-year Treasury yield range near 4.81% and says traditional bond vigilantes will not win battles against the Treasury.

He expects long-term interest rates to fall eventually because current high rates are hurting self-employed businesses and US employment is worsening. Once the economy slows, rates will inevitably come back down, supporting long-duration US Treasury positions.

The US Treasury's buyback expansion to at least $4bn in 10-30y paper pushed long-end yields down about 9bp, but this is not a structural shift. The market does not expect long-term Treasury yields to fall because US debt has exceeded $40tn, war spending continues, oil-led inflation is rising, and the problem is structural rather than a temporary supply issue. Long-term yields are therefore likely to remain elevated or biased upward, making long-duration Treasury prices unattractive.

The US Treasury announced it will at least double liquidity-support buyback operations for longer-dated nominal coupon securities in the 10-20y and 20-30y sectors, from a maximum of $2bn to at least $4bn per operation. Ulrich interprets this as de facto yield curve control: the Treasury is not reducing debt or printing money, but is issuing short-dated debt to repurchase older long-dated debt specifically to stop long yields from rising. The announcement alone pushed the 30-year Treasury yield from above 5.3% back below 5.2% and the 10-year from about 4.75% to 4.65%, and he expects authorities to keep acting to hold long yields down.

The 10-year Treasury yield is unlikely to sustain a move to 5%; UBS expects yields to fall back to about 4.25% by year-end and 4% by mid-next year, supported by Treasury buybacks and strong earnings conditions.

While short-term volatility remains a risk due to uncertain Fed policy and supply factors, the 5% yield level on the 10-year Treasury serves as a strong line in the sand where investors will step in to buy for attractive real and nominal returns.

The long-end bond selloff is driven by AI-related capex spending boosting demand for funds without adequate supply, persistent US deficits, missed Fed inflation targets, and a higher equilibrium neutral rate, creating a large risk premium in 10- and 30-year Treasury yields.

Global capital consumption is enormous and the bond market is rationing it, keeping the 10-year Treasury yield as the key benchmark pressuring mortgages, auto loans, student debt, and adjustable-rate credit; yields paused intraday but the capital-rationing backdrop remains.

US Treasury yields are not rising from a one-off event but have been grinding higher since last year, with the 30-year near its 2007 high. The drivers are broad-based inflation, persistent fiscal deficits and war spending around 7% of GDP, and competition from big-tech bond issuance. A Taylor rule estimate puts fair value near 5.1% for the 10-year, while current levels are near 4.9%; she expects yields to keep testing that zone until bond demand near 5% caps sharp spikes.

US Treasury yields are rising because strong US growth and AI infrastructure investment are increasing demand for capital while big-tech bond issuance competes with government debt. With the US 10-year yield already above 4.7% and heading toward 5%, Treasury prices are likely to stay under pressure, and a move above 5% would become a serious burden on equities.

Prefer IEF (7-10yr Treasuries) over TLT (20yr+) given author's view that US10Y is forming a topping structure with a potential breakdown below 4.6%, making intermediate duration more attractive than long duration.