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Market Commentary – 7/10/15

The U.S. stock market is rallying Friday morning on positive news surrounding the new Greek bailout negotiations. Both bond and stock markets have been roughed up the last few weeks over the ongoing drama surrounding this situation. Quietly, China has sold off violently the past week as well amid fears of a stock market bubble before rallying late in the week due to expanded Chinese Government monetary stimulus. This has further complicated global economic growth concerns, as well as potentially pushed out an increase in the Federal Funds rate to early 2016.

The financials markets of the last several weeks have reminded us that the world is still fragile economically and there are many uncertainties both domestically and abroad that can immediately affect market psychology.

Technically, mortgage bonds have remained below their 200-day moving average even with Greece’s default and a Chinese stock market question, which is a bearish single for bonds. Therefore, we continue to remain biased toward locking due to the poor technical present at the moment.

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