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Morning Bid: Bonds defused, stocks bounce, BoE cut expected

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10-year Treasury yields have sliced below 4.5% - dropping more than 10 basis points at one point on Wednesday to their lowest of the year .

The drop in yields came largely independently of futures thinking on Federal Reserve interest rates.

New Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that, while Trump wants lower interest rates, he would not ask the Fed to cut them.

US January layoffs from Challenger , weekly jobless claims, Q4 productivity and unit labor costs, New York Fed's Jan global supply chain pressure index.

Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher Waller , Fed Vice Chair Philip Jefferson and Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan all speak.

US corporate earnings: Amazon , Eli Lilly , Bristol-Myers Squibb , ConocoPhillips , Snap-On , Expedia , VeriSign , Principal Financial .

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