Tick chart of the last seven hours of 10-year yield trading (everything else like stocks and oil are the same).
To reopen the Strait of Hormuz, we either have to forcibly open it or find a diplomatic solution with hardliners who don’t want to deal with us. Their is no third option.
Bond yields collapsed because they thought, for a brief moment, that we were working on a diplomatic solution, not a full TACO retreat. They shot back up because Iran said we were not.
Same chart for oil as 10-year yields above.
All weekend I read, and heard a podcast saying “buy oil” as the price is going to $200. That might be true… eventually.
But between now and then, we’re going to have to suffer through unbelievable drawdowns, as algos will be forced to liquidate because the diplomatic solution word was in a headline.
Yesterday was 22 days since it began. The national average of gasoline prices is up 97 cents (32%).