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>What unfolded in the past 24 hours was a textbook case of global liquidity fragmentation colliding with political signaling and desperate intervention. We saw a clear Treasury market fracture during Tokyo hours yields surged, dollar funding conditions wobbled, and the BoJ had to convene an emergency meeting. That alone signaled global cross-currency basis stress and hinted at a margin call ripple through JGBs and USTs. Then came Europe: GILTs blew out, the ECB started issuing verbal anesthesia, and still futures were oddly resilient. That disconnect between collapsing sovereign credit confidence and relentless equity bids. It reeks of centralized intervention, likely via options books or indirect plunge protection.
>The final act White House messaging felt more like a coordinated circuit-breaker than a market response. “Tariff pause” headlines functioned as a synthetic catalyst for liquidity injection, not a true fundamental repricing. But here’s the kicker: none of this repaired the damage under the hood. SOFR-OIS spreads are still unstable, swap spreads remain inverted, and bank CDS signals are flashing systemic. We’re witnessing what looks like a 2025 variant of March 2020 except this time, sovereigns are the weak link, not just banks. Risk is no longer cyclical it’s institutional.
