Unexpected Snowball Rally After Consumer Sentiment Data

Snowball moves in markets, by their nature, tend to be unexpected.  Today’s was downright surprising, largely because the extent of the “miss” in Consumer Sentiment data was equally surprising.  This is not a report that typically accounts for this much movement.  Even in today’s case, it was only worth 3bps of improvement in 10yr yields.  But that 3bps was enough to prompt short-covering and…