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"The interest rate for the most popular U.S. home loan jumped to 6.81% last week, its highest level in two months, following a turbulent week for financial markets as President Donald Trump pressed on with a deepening trade war...

"Mortgage rates closely track the 10-year Treasury note yield, which had its biggest weekly rise last week since 2001.

"The increase in yields reflected a drop in investor appetite for U.S. government debt, and came as Trump suspended some of his newly imposed tariffs even as he boosted levies on China, the biggest U.S. trading partner."
reuters.com/markets/us/us-30-y

#bonds #carney #canda #japan #uk #trump
Just sorry it is a moving away from america instead of Trump.]
Let’s talk about the moment Donald Trump blinked. It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t a tweetstorm or a rally rant. When the tariff threats that had the world on edge—… A complete turnaround from the chest-thumping of the past week. And the reason? Mark Carney and a slow, deliberate financial maneuver that most people didn’t even notice: the coordinated Treasury bond slow bleed.
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun

Dean Blundell · Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop TariffsBy Dean Blundell

🔴 Investors are dumping once-reliable #US government #bonds, sparking fears that major banks and traders are losing faith in #America as a safe place to store their money.

That could be bad news for #trump, who had hoped his tariff pause earlier this week would restore confidence in the markets.

Treasury #bonds are essentially IOUs from the #US government, and they’re how #Washington pays its bills despite collecting less in revenue than it spends ⏩
uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/inve #News

Yahoo Finance · Investors dump US government bonds as faith in America faltersBy FRANCE 24

Bond market moves raise fears of growing bets against America

> Government #bonds have been selling off while stocks have plunged. That’s unusual, and it’s raising concerns that global investors are losing some of their long-standing confidence in America.

> government bonds — are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.
nbcnews.com/business/markets/b

NBC News · Bond market moves raise fears of growing bets against AmericaBy J.J. McCorvey