Bond Bloodbath Worsens on Inflation, Lax Fed, and Flood of New Debt. Mortgage Rates hit 6.75%

The 30-year Treasury yield rose by 5 basis points on Tuesday, and by 23 basis points over the past seven trading days, to 5.19%, the highest since June 2007. When yields rise, prices of those bonds fall, and existing bondholders take losses. It’s been a bloodbath – an orderly methodical bloodbath – in bond land.