Posted To: MBS CommentaryToday was a freebie for bond markets (and stocks to some extent). In the grand scheme of things, no one will look back at today and conclude anything meaningful. If anything, it will just look like a very calm, very flat trading day following a 3-day weekend for bonds. Yields hit new 7-year+ highs in the overnight session, but early domestic traders were finally interested in owning bonds at current levels. Several big block trades hit the screen just before and after 8am ET, and these effectively set the tone for the rest of the morning. In the absence of data and despite a bounce in stocks (not that we should expect stocks and bonds to be moving in the same direction at the moment), bonds continued drifting toward their best levels of the day just after 11am. They stayed sideways in that…(read more)Forward this article via email: Send a copy of this story to someone you know that may want to read it.