Oil news · Federal Reserve news
[MARKET ANALYSIS] T-note futures linger at the prior day's trough after retreating alongside a rbound in oil, hawkish Fed reports, strong US data and Alphabet supply
Newsquawk Staff ·
USTs: -0.5 ticks
- Remains lacklustre and lingered around the prior day's trough after retreating as yields rose on higher oil prices, hawkish Fed reports, strong economic data and Alphabet's bond sale, with participants now awaiting the upcoming key US jobs report.
Bunds: -28 ticks
- Retreated back beneath the 125.00 level as the rebound in oil stokes inflationary pressures, while German data is scheduled today, including the latest trade figures and industrial production.
JGBs: -26 ticks
- Followed suit to the declines in global peers but are off opening lows following the weaker-than-expected household spending data from Japan.
What it means
Sessions where duration sells off on a stack of coincident drivers, an oil rebound, hawkish central bank commentary, firm data and heavy corporate supply, tend to produce shallower reversals than single-catalyst moves, since each leg reinforces the inflation and term-premium narrative rather than competing with it. The corporate supply channel is the most mechanical: large investment-grade issuance prompts rate-lock hedging in futures, which lifts yields into pricing and typically reverses once the deal clears, so the Alphabet sale's drag on T-notes is the component most likely to fade. The oil leg transmits through breakevens rather than the real curve, and the distinction worth drawing is whether nominal yields are rising with inflation compensation or on real-rate repricing, as the former caps how far hawkish Fed reporting can extend the move. Positioning into a major employment print has historically flattened activity and kept futures pinned near recent lows rather than extending them, with the print itself the clearing event for the accumulated hawkish repricing. The parallel weakness in Bunds and JGBs, tempered in Tokyo by soft domestic spending data, fits the familiar pattern of UST-led global duration correlation with local data only modulating the degree. The follow-ons are the US jobs report, German trade and industrial production, and any further Fed-speak to confirm whether the hawkish reports reflect the committee's centre or its fringe.
- Daily US Equity Opening News: SPCX explores access to 80K US cell sites; OpenAI nears USD 30bln funding at $1.25T valuation
- US Midterm Preview: Democrats Favoured to Flip the House, Senate Too Close to Call
- [MARKET ANALYSIS] Crude benchmarks edge higher as the geopolitical environment remains tense
- [MARKET ANALYSIS] DXY is a touch firmer, Kiwi gains whilst the JPY digests further BoJ source reports
- French Trade Minister has requested a tariff exemption covering cognac and champagne within the US
Related headlines
- Israeli PM Netanyahu says "I have instructed the security forces to impose a siege on the city of Hebron and to completely close off the West Bank"5 hours ago
- Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi told reporters that she would instruct the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry to consider subsidies for gasoline and other fuel, JiJi reports5 hours ago
- Algeria has instructed producers of urea fertiliser to stop supplying France, according to reports; France has raised Algerian trade curbs at EU level36 min ago
- [MARKET ANALYSIS] OAT-Bund 10yr yield spread hits another multi-year wide, Moody's looms4 hours ago
- [MARKET ANALYSIS] European bourses broadly lower; Volvo Cars trades at its lowest ever following dire results4 hours ago
- BoJ is expected to continue rapid rate hikes, with focus on December, sources suggest; report suggests that interest rates are still far from neutral, adding that inflation needs to stabilise5 hours ago
- Oracle (ORCL) to invest USD 1bln in partner ecosystem over 4 years1 hour ago
- American Express (AXP) Q3 2026 (USD): EPS 5.42 (exp. 4.50), Revenue 20.1bln (exp. 20.1bln)2 hours ago
- Booz Allen (BAH) Q2 2026 (USD): Adj. EPS 1.76 (exp. 1.48), Revenue 2.80bln (prev. 2.81bln)2 hours ago
- SLB (SLB) Q3 2026 (USD): adj. EPS 0.64 (exp. 0.62), Revenue 9.45bln (exp. 9.27bln)2 hours ago
- Treasury Block Trades [Rolling headline, October 23rd 2026]42 min ago
- ECB's de Cos seen as the most likely to succeed President Lagarde, Bloomberg's survey shows; Knot is in second place3 hours ago
- While Washington continues to exert economic pressure on Tehran, an American media report reports that it is considering a scenario of several days of attacks on Iran; a scenario that includes missile, drone, energy and nuclear facilities, ILNA reports1 hour ago
- Global crude steel output falls 0.2% Y/Y, Worldsteel reports3 hours ago
- A US E-3 aircraft has arrived in Sulta, Saudi Arabia, Sabereen reports3 hours ago