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After The Fed jawboned the world into the largest aggregate net short position in Treasuries in Q4 since 2010, its rapid realization that all is not well in the real world - and subsequent talking (and walking) back of rate-hike expectations - has sparked the biggest short-squeeze in 6 years and sent Treasuries up by the most since 2012. With odds collapsing for any more rate-hikes in 2016, as Yellen admits their forecasts are worthless, it seems - just as in 2010 - the bonds shorts have a way to go.

On Tuesday, Janet Yellen delivered what some observers called her finest “performance” since ascending to the monetary throne in February of 2014.

Of course in the post-crisis world, central bankers are only praised when they make dovish pronouncements. Hawks are heretical. To tighten is to sin.

On Tuesday, embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was dealt a bitter blow when PMDB - the party of VP Michel Temer and House Speaker Eduardo Cunha - officially left the coalition government.

"Dialogue, I regret to say, has been exhausted," Tourism Minister Henrique Eduardo Alves, a PMDB leader and former speaker of the lower house of Congress, said on Monday as he resigned from Rousseff's cabinet.

On the day Mario Draghi announced that the ECB would launch a historic corporate bond monetization program, the first of its kind, we said that we expect bond yields to tumble imminently as the market frontruns the ECB's open-market purchases of corporate bonds and soaks up all available supply in the market. Not even we expected what would happen next though.

By EconMatters

The typical buy the rumor sell the news trading day in the oil market. The RBOB and HO product contracts along with Brent contract expire tomorrow, watch for spikes at the close. This Friday is loaded with economic reports including the Employment Report and the Baker Hughes Rig Report where we saw a drop of 15 last week.

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