The 10-year yield is heading to 5.5% because the Fed is failing to panic about sticky inflation and refusing to hike rates.
Banks are aggressively buying Treasuries to pocket the nominal GDP spread, driving an 11.6% growth in holdings that makes intermediate bonds a strong buy.
The 10-year Treasury yield will reprice well north of 5% as reduced Fed communication inflates the term premium.
If inflation is rolling over and the Fed is too tight, front-end-to-belly yields fall and Treasury prices rally.
Fed is a percentage point above neutral and should cut to ~2.5% this year, inflation fears overdone
AI deflation pulls real yields and inflation down, so 10-year rates keep falling despite hot payrolls