Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of May 18, 2021. 10-year note: Currently net long 31.7k, up 30.4k. Apparently, some FOMC members at the April 27-28 meeting signaled that they were ready to discuss scaling back the Fed’s bond … Continued
Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of May 11, 2021. 10-year note: Currently net long 1.2k, up 8.5k. FOMC minutes for the April 27-28 meeting will be made public on Wednesday. The meeting was a non-event – pretty much. … Continued
Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of April 20, 2021. 10-year note: Currently net long 15.6k, up 18.3k. The FOMC meets next week. It is the year’s third meeting; five more remain – the scheduled ones, that is. Not … Continued
Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of March 30, 2021. 10-year note: Currently net short 89.8k, up 102.1k. Minutes for the March 16-17 FOMC meeting will be out next Wednesday. Not much extra color is expected out of these … Continued
Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of February 9, 2021. 10-year note: Currently net long 79.5k, up 20.9k. Minutes for the January 26-27 FOMC meeting – the first of eight scheduled meetings this year – will be out Wednesday. … Continued
Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of December 29, 2020 (data was made public this Monday instead of last Friday due to New Year’s holiday). 10-year note: Currently net long 25.2k, down 24.9k. FOMC minutes for the December 15-16 … Continued
Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of September 29, 2020. 10-year note: Currently net long 128.6k, up 46.4k. FOMC minutes for the September 15-16 meeting are due out Wednesday. Rates at that meeting were obviously left unchanged between zero … Continued
Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of August 18, 2020. 10-year note: Currently net long 87k, up 81.5k. Last Thursday’s intraday high of 0.73 percent just about tested the upper bound of a five-month range, in which rates went … Continued
Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of July 3, 2018. 10-year note: Currently net short 500.1k, up 144.8k. Minutes for the June 12-13 FOMC meeting were released last Thursday. The Fed raised interest rates in that meeting. This was … Continued
Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of May 22, 2018. 10-year note: Currently net short 358.6k, down 23.3k. Ten-year Treasury yields (2.93 percent) bottomed intraday at 2.72 percent on April 2, then quickly rose to 3.12 percent on May … Continued