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The ten-year Treasury is in the middle of its worst stretch in over a century, yet money is still flowing in. The logic is straightforward — yields high enough become their own argument. When rates climb this far, new money finds the risk-reward increasingly hard to ignore, and strategists say that dynamic is quietly supporting demand even through the pain.
Shifting to the geopolitical trade, Wall Street spent six months playing what some are calling the TACO trade — Trump always chickens out — buying dips every time Iran tensions flared, confident a de-escalation would follow. That playbook held through spring and summer, but September cracked it open. The market is now asking a harder question: what if this time he doesn't back down?
Meanwhile in the commodity pits, cattle futures took a meaningful hit, dropping nearly three to four dollars across the board after another border opening was announced. Cash trade came in at three hundred fifty to three hundred fifty-five dollars dressed in the North, with live bids in the South struggling to hold above two hundred twenty-two. The announcement clearly rattled supply expectations and sellers moved fast.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
