Yesterday the Federal Reserve announced its latest program of "quantitative easing", a program that had been well anticipated by the stock and bond markets. The Fed is going to be a big buyer of treasury bonds and notes over the next 12 months. Today's front page of the New York Times has as its headline story the Fed announcement.
As I pointed out in my last post on this subject a couple of weeks ago, the bond market is in a "frenzy" stage. The chart above shows that 10 year note yields are near their historical low points. In fact,the last two front page stories on the bond market have both occurred while the 10 year note yield has hovered above its recent lows and above its historical low of 2.02% reached in December 2008.
I take this as evidence that the market thinks the Fed will succeed in its goal of fostering an economic recovery. The implication is that bond yields are headed much higher from here.
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