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Real Yields Drive Today's Tightening

CANADA
  • GoC yields appear to have tentatively stabilised, with 10YY up +8.6bps on the day at 1.94% (USTs +7.6bps) having reversed Friday’s geopolitics-driven risk-off rally.
  • Breakevens have been little changed since grinding higher on very strong US CPI on Thu, with the adjustment instead being carried out in real terms.
  • This has been the case through the YTD. The real yield of -2.5bps is back close to last month’s highs of 0 and prior to that was last seen in May 2020, with a sizeable ~50bp tightening in real yields so far in 2022 that should help to do some of the BoC's tightening.
  • Today’s Bloomberg economist survey saw 10Y nominal yields little changed this quarter, with a median of 1.87% for end 1Q22 (it averaged 1.85% in the survey window of Feb 4-10), before rising to 2.25% end-2022 and 2.40% end-2023.

Canadian 10Y govt bond yields. Nominal (white), breakeven (yellow) and real (green)Source: Bloomberg

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