{"id":436811,"date":"2026-08-25T03:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/treasury-yields-dip-but-continues-to-probe-the-top-of-the-range-436811\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T03:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:40:09","slug":"treasury-yields-dip-but-continues-to-probe-the-top-of-the-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/treasury-yields-dip-but-continues-to-probe-the-top-of-the-range-436811\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury yields dip but continues to probe the top of the range"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>There is something disquieting about a government fighting markets. There is a certain futility about it in large part because it rarely works. When it does work, it&#8217;s usually of the Mario Draghi &#8220;whatever it takes&#8221; variety and some dramatic actions. Treasury Secretary Bessent talking about $4 billion in shifting maturity buying is almost comically under-armed.<\/p>\n<p>Now they&#8217;re floating using the Treasury general account but it&#8217;s starting to look like they don&#8217;t have a real plan. It goes back to Trump&#8217;s impulsiveness and you get the sense that he tasks deputies with impossible goals.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters is just out with a poll showing Trump&#8217;s approval at 33% to match the lowest of his Presidency and the Iran war is increasingly unpopular as well. Just 31% approve of the war with 29% of Republicans disapproving.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The bond market senses a President that&#8217;s flailing on affordability and a Republican party that&#8217;s pandering to the polls (see the data center reversal).<\/p>\n<p>The arbiter here is goign to be the bond market and a fresh rise above 4.75% would be ominous; and a climb above 5% calamitous. That doesn&#8217;t leave much room for error from here.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something disquieting about a government fighting markets. There is a certain futility about it in large part because it rarely works. When it does work, it&#8217;s usually of the Mario&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}