Curiously enough the U.S. dollar caught a bid at the expense of the euro, yet only short-dated U.S. Treasuries appear to have been bid up. This could mean a bomb is about to be detonated. Were the likelihood otherwise, then longer-dated U.S.Treasuries, or corporate debt, or equities, or even gold might have seen more positive action on account of capital's flight from Europe starting late last week. Not that money parked in short-dated Treasuries couldn't be promptly moved into these other investment alternatives. Yet that these were not the first choice and instead short-dated U.S. Treasuries were bid at the very least speaks for razor thin confidence, righteous though this be in the midst of trapped central banks and tapped sovereign treasuries straight to the core of the trans-Atlantic banking system.
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