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Abstract:The financial markets exhibit fluctuations in the form of 5% yields and 150 yen.
The financial markets exhibit fluctuations in the form of 5% yields and 150 yen.
After partially unwinding the pre-weekend safety hedges attributed to the Middle East conflict, global markets are now shifting their attention towards crucial macro price levels and milestones that may once again exert influence on the week's developments.
On Monday, the initiation of aid convoys to Gaza, coupled with no further escalation of the conflict in the region over the weekend, led to a decline in the prices of crude oil and gold, retracting from their previous highs.
However, in accordance with the retreat from safe havens, U.S. Treasuries and sovereign bonds worldwide resumed their drop, and 10-year U.S. benchmark borrowing rates ultimately broke through the 5% threshold early on Monday for the first time in 16 years.
As a result, the dollar maintained its bid and continued to explore the 150 yen level, which many believe the Bank of Japan will be eager to safeguard against with open-market yen purchases. However, the euro has lost ground as the European Central Bank meets this week to examine its ten interest rate hikes in 15 months.
The persisting bond market worry, however, precluded a return to risk assets more generally, and equities fell throughout the world first thing on Monday, with China's blue-chip CSI300 index falling to its lowest in 4-1/2 years as the country's housing crisis smolders.
In China, geopolitical anxiety is never far from the surface. Foxconn Industrial Internet shares fell 10% on reports that its parent company, Foxconn, a Taiwan-based firm that is a major supplier of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s iPhones, was the target of tax audits and land use investigations in China.
Furthermore, US Treasuries now have the largest 10-year yield advantage over China in 21 years, at 226 basis points, and Goldman Sachs estimates capital outflows from China reached $75 billion last month, the highest monthly figure since 2016.
The U.S. tech sector as a whole is in the spotlight this week, with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) reporting on Tuesday, Meta (NASDAQ:META) on Wednesday, and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) on Thursday.
However, these megacaps remain susceptible to the significant pressure in US bond markets. This resulted in the 10-year tenors surpassing the 5% mark on Monday.
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