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Rates Spark: Lower despite the ECB’s hawkish holdouts

The US 10yr Treasury yield gapped lower on the back of Thursday’s data releases, which provided a whiff of macro weakness. The big outlier was the much weaker-than-expected 0.5% annualised consumer spending growth for the first quarter – a decline from 1.4%. GDP growth itself was actually revised up to 2.1% annualised, but mostly reflecting a downward revision of imports (which in fact gels with lower domestic demand). [...]