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  • Treasury curves hold steeper profiles after the close with short end rates marking steady to higher vs. weaker intermediates to long end futures: 3M10Y +4.766 at -133.066, 2s10s +4.843 at -68.812.
  • FI markets ha a rather whippy session amid modest overall volumes (TYU3 1.1M), not unusual for summer trade with many accounts close to the sidelines, awaiting the first significant data release of July CPI this Thursday.
  • Little reaction to an increase in Consumer Credit by more than expected in June at $17.8B (cons $13.55B) after a particularly low $9.5B in May had marked the softest increase since Nov’20.
  • Some interesting details, with revolving credit (credit cards and the like) seeing its first decline since Apr’21 at -$0.6B after +$8.5B in what could be down to lower gross issuance under tightening conditions or greater repayments to reduce higher yielding data, or a combination of the two.
  • Early Morning comments from Fed Gov Bowman: EXPECTS ADDITIONAL RATE INCREASES WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TO LOWER INFLATION TO TARGET .. WILL BE LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE INFLATION IS ON A 'CONSISTENT AND MEANINGFUL' DOWNWARD PATH IN MAKING DECISIONS, Reuters.

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