Who Pushed Treasuries Higher Today?
Stocks and bonds both finished
up today.
Equity
The Nasdaq
future
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9175.
Fixed Income
U.S. Treasuries continued had their second up day in a row as a
result of Fed Governor Bernanke’s commented that he expects inflation to remain
subdued for an extended period of time. The
10 year futures contract
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was up by -10 to close at 110-23; and the five year note was up 0-70 at 112-30
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Metals
August gold
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at 358.70 amid US dollar weakness. Silver
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5.07. Copper was
up .65
at 77.90
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Energy
August crude
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up .008 to close at 4.876
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Currencies
The USD index
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at 95.60 on lower yield differentials.