What's Going on in the US Treasury Market?

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It's been the worst month for a treasury since 20 16, so what's happening? Everybody hates you at tresi e moment. The ground swell of opinion now is ok, we have to face up to the fact that the us Federal reserve is going to be raising rates. And that has to be bad news for us. Gover bomb prices. It has to push yields higher. There is this problem with inflation that's just not going away and that eats away at the regular returns tha debt products offer.

The US is finalising a plan to supply the EU with up to 15bn additional cubic metres of liquefied natural gas by the end of 2022, Russian shares rose as the Moscow exchange partially reopened, hedge funds search for bargains in Russian and Ukrainian bonds, and Toshiba shareholders vote down management’s plan to split the famous industrial conglomerate in two.

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