[taxtruth]

World investors are backing off the US markets.

[taxtruth]

Wall street is now called Sucker street by Asians investors.

[Lurker]

The auction's bid-to-cover ratio, a measure of demand, dropped to 1.92 percent from 2.58 percent

A 25% drop....

[JasonC]

No, they really aren't. The treasury has released the latest foreign assets position report and it is up oh a modest $550 billion over the past year.

Whoops, doom monger don't tell you that do they? But it is a mechanical consequence of the trade deficit.

Meanwhile the headline oohs and ahhs over a move of 0.05% in the 5 year note, up to a ruinous 2.64% from 2.59%. Wow that's dire. Oh and the same day the 10 year droped 0.02% and the 30 year 0.04%. The very steep yield curve is "shallow-ing", that is all.