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The US Dollar (and Treasury Yields) Is Melting Up

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Despite already record levels of "long USD", from Cable to EUR, traders are dumping everything and buying USDollars, sending the USD Index surging off overnight lows. At the same time, Treasuries are being dumped en masse with the bellyu of the curve up 15-17bps since Friday.

 

The USD is going vertical...

 

And bonds are being dumped...

 

But the problem for stocks is that USDJPY seems to have lost control...

 

Charts: Bloomberg

 

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Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:12 | 6926048 dimwitted economist
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Yes!

Heading out NOW to sell my Gold!

The u.s. Dollar is the KING OF THE WORLD!!! 

(Bitches)

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:26 | 6926113 bunzbunzbunz
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bye bye dollars. get some free bitcoin ever hour at http://freebitco.in/?r=25727

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:33 | 6926153 RonArgent
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About A week ago I was scoffed at for saying the dollar had not yet it's demise at the hands of the MIGHTY YooAWN......

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 16:16 | 6927172 Crocodile
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The USD will rise and rise and then do a vanishing act.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:13 | 6926064 ebworthen
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The fools buying F.A.N.G., the wise buying Gold and Silver.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:39 | 6926180 KnuckleDragger-X
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The road goes on forever and the party never ends.......  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN3BlPIwg2U

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 13:01 | 6926253 TAALR Swift
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The wise almost NEVER invest in a one-trick pony. Unless they control the key variables that lead to a certain and profitable outcome.

The foolish... well, they act like they're investing, when in fact they are gambling. If you're going to gamble, you should at least stick to the basic rules of gambling.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:14 | 6926068 arbwhore
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Parabolic phase. 120 (initial) target.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:14 | 6926070 Hitlery_4_Dictator
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"Wise" people been getting raped since 2011, will continue to get raped. 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:16 | 6926080 Dr. Engali
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No worries, treasury yields will be headed back down once the dead cat bounce is over.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:17 | 6926082 Crocodile
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Seems that a good downward spike in the stock market is needed to boost the bond market, but what lousy timing for the Fed's conundrum.

 

They have really put themselves in a corner; damned if they do and damned if they don't...but everything is awesome.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:20 | 6926096 Mark Mywords
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You hit it with that comment. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

The Fed is irrelevant and has lost all credibility. Nothing it does or says tomorrow will change any of that. Except, to make it even obvious to those who are not captains of being obvious.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:44 | 6926201 LawsofPhysics
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Correct.  The velocity of the FRN is telling the tale.  International trade is the only thing that really keeps the world from killing each other in earnest.  So the question is, what currency do all the global trade partners want to use in this 100% fiat world...

Regardless of the Fed, global Weimar is now inevitable.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 13:33 | 6926382 TheFutureReset
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Raise rates tomorrow, with the caveat that they expect to lower rates at the next meeting. Or something like that. Basically, they will be able to raise while getting people to begin pricing in a lowering of the rate. 

Then rinse and repeat at higher and higher rates. 

Of course this won't work, but they will try some scheme to stay relevant. 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:19 | 6926093 the grateful un...
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US a safe haven from EU NIRPsters. but dumping bonds? seom anticipation that energy will find a bottom here when junk collapses. its like investors woke up this AM and said hey the Fed is really going to raise rates. its stock market meltup mode sell everything to buy janets wallpaper.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:25 | 6926110 Catalonian Capi...
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NYFED be like Wingardium Leviosa on Equities and DXY. Voldemort speaking in parseltongue to his minions tonight. 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:35 | 6926163 RonArgent
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Sometimes I wish I could down vote more than once

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:29 | 6926130 buzzsaw99
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transitory

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:41 | 6926188 LawsofPhysics
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Yes, now remind us, exactly how is this going to work out for the global trade of real goods and services...?

I only ask, because the only thing history demonstrates with any clarity is that when goods and services stop crossing boarders, troops will...

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 13:02 | 6926262 commie
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The Russian ruble will be the next world's reserve currency. According to ZH dummies. 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 13:19 | 6926330 PoasterToaster
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Oh good, can't wait for foriegn goods to be cheaper.  That's the theory behind need to devalue the dollar isn't it?

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 17:33 | 6927512 gcjohns1971
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HOLY COW!!!!

So...  Looks like fixed income people looking for greater security than the T-Bill can offer.

The problem with this is that it is totally nuts.

Dollars are TBills, TBills are Dollars.  Get it?

Specifically, Dollars are checks, and TBills are the checking account balance against which they are written.

Particularly, the Fed receives newly written TBills, and enter them into their "Assets" ledger.   The Fed next creates an issuance of Dollars equal to the face value of the TBills in their Liability Ledger. 

Dollars' and TBills' values in terms of "real stuff" are tied together because they are the two sides of a single transaction.

Furthermore, we are in eternal fiscal deficit because we are in eternal monetary deficit.   They don't create the Dollars to pay the interest on the TBills when they do the face value.

No.   Later, they create a SEPARATE TBill, with it's own face value and interest rate, on which to base the creation of SEPARATE NEW DOLLARS that allow the interest to be paid.

THIS IS WHY DEBT MUST ALWAYS INCREASE...BECAUSE THE CURRENCY IS BASED ON DEBTS, WHICH REPRESENT UNCERTAIN ECONOMIC VALUE TRANSPORTED FROM THE FUTURE TO THE PRESENT, AND THEN DEMAND AN INTEREST RATE EX-NIHILO.   The only place for the 'ex-nihilo' to come from is from the wealth of current holders of the currency in the form of deficits to enable wealth redistribution.

So...

When the market writes down the value of the asset upon which a liability draws its value then the liabilities' value does what????

Stated another way, what happens to the value of a check written as a percentage of the checking account, 'pay to the bearer 1/1000th of John's Checking account',  IF THE VALUE OF THE CHECKING ACCOUNT IS DROPPING??????

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