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Inflation Breakeven Continues To Buck Trend Lower

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  • The bulk of today’s rise in nominal 10Y Tsy yields comes from real yields (+7.5bps of +9.5bps) but it only unwinds Friday’s move lower in real yields (green line below).
  • Instead, the now 10bp increase in 10Y yields since prior to payrolls has come almost entirely from a higher 10Y inflation breakeven (yellow line), which at 2.79% is the highest since May 19.
  • This is still low compared to mid-April highs above 3% but bucks the recent trend of moderating inflation expectations, and with a similar story in the smoother 5Y5Y measure at 2.43%.
  • It comes despite Fed hike expectations firming to post May-FOMC highs of 202bps for the five meetings left this year.

UST 10Y nominal yield (white), real yield (green) and breakeven (yellow)Source: Bloomberg

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