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Market Roundup: 75bp Hike Chatter Rising

US TSYS
US FI trading weaker across the board, curves flatter/near lows (5s10s and 5s30s inverted) with U-Mich consumer confidence of 50.2 (vs. 58.2 est), record low for the data series that began in 1978.
  • Hot CPI (1.0% vs. 0.7% est) triggered heavy selling in short end as multiple 50bp hikes get priced in w/ chatter over (and hedging of) 75bp rising.
  • CBOE's VIX vol index climbing 2.48 at 28.57; negative reaction for stocks w/ broad based selling (ESM2 -108.5 at 3907.75).
  • Tsys bobbing around session lows after giving up post-data bounce an hour ago, 30YY tops 3.1994% vs. 3.0929% low.
  • Technicals for TYU2 trading 117-10 (-19.5): through couple levels of support with attn now on 116-21 Low May 9 and a bear trigger followed by 116-00 Round number support.

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