That Escalated Quickly

That Escalated Quickly It would be easy to check in on the bond market at some point on Thursday afternoon and conclude there’d been precipitous escalation in the Iran war or some other big new development putting pressure on bonds (10yr yields up almost 10bps to 4.42+ and MBS down more than 5/8ths). But today’s selling was remarkably linear and steady. It began in the overnight session and ramped up at 10:30am ET af…