5.04%. The 10-year just printed its highest yield since July 2007. The 30-year at 5.40%, also a 2007 number. The long end didn't wait for Wednesday.
On this feed for weeks: the story was never the hike, it was the long bond quietly repricing what money costs. Today it stopped being quiet.
Here's the detail that matters most. Markets price 94% odds of tomorrow's hike — and the curve STEEPENED into it, the 10-year rising faster than the 2-year. A hike should calm the long end. It isn't. Because the long end isn't trading the Fed anymore: it's trading debt supply, the fiscal path, and an AI capex boom borrowing against the same pool of capital. Only one of those ends when the tightening cycle does.
Four pressures at once — 5% yields, $107 Brent, a priced hike, AI doubt — and the real problem is what's missing: every offset that usually cushions one of them. Energy shocks usually come with growth. Rising yields usually come with earnings optimism. Neither is on the table.
Wednesday addresses overnight money. The damage is being done at the far end of the curve, where the Fed's writ barely runs.
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