EDITOR'S NOTE
The bond market took center stage on Wall Street on Monday, as the 10-year Treasury yield spiked above 1.5% for the first time since June.
The move continued a volatile stretch for the Treasury market, which has been bouncing around since the Federal Reserve signaled last week that a slowdown of its massive asset purchasing program is drawing closer.
"At first, the curve actually flattened on the back of the Fed announcement, which I found to be extraordinarily strange because, if anything, it was a bit more hawkish than expected. And then, in the days after the curve just radically steepened," said Max Gokhman, the chief investment officer at hedge fund AlphaTrAI. Whether bond yields will continue to climb remains to be seen. A major spike for Treasury yields earlier this year led to worries about the 10-year yield ripping above 2%, but the market calmed down over the summer. Gokhman said that the steepening may have already gone a bit too far, and the 10-year wasn't able to hold above 1.5% intraday on Monday.
If yields continue to march higher, it could lead to more days for stocks like Wall Street saw on Monday, with banks and energy stocks rising as tech names faltered.
"I think that period of rotation can be sustained here for the next few months. Probably taking some of the profits out of the technology stocks that have done so well and going into the energy and reopening trades," Anastasia Amoroso, chief investment strategist at iCapital Network, said on CNBC's "Halftime Report." TOP NEWS
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