Where money is leaning: between stocks and bonds, along the Treasury curve, and between sectors — from Treasury yields, futures positions, company filings and what funds and insiders actually bought.
Stocks vs. bonds, last 3 years
10-year − 2-year Treasury spread
10y − 2y
Large-cap earnings yield vs. the 10-year Treasury
Earnings yield10-year yieldEquity risk premiumPremium, average
Stocks vs. long bonds: SPY ÷ TLT
SPY ÷ TLT, since the first week60-day correlation (right)
Equity risk premium -1.02 pp on 2026-10-23, against an average of -1.30 pp: the smaller it is, the less stocks pay over bonds. SPY ÷ TLT rising means stocks beat long bonds; a negative correlation means bonds still hedge stocks. Large-cap earnings yield: the combined trailing-12-month net income of the ~500 largest US companies we track ÷ their combined market cap, losses included.
Sources: U.S. Department of the Treasury, daily par yield curve rates, Earnings: SEC filings (10-Q, 10-K); prices: IEX Historical Data.
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The rates backdrop: the Treasury yield curve, last 3 months
2026-10-23 newest · dashed: 2026-07-27
10-year Treasury
5.00%+35 bp in 62 sessions
2-year Treasury
4.69%+38 bp in 62 sessions
10y − 2y
+31 bp
10y − 3m
+78 bp
Fed funds (EFFR)
3.88%target 3.75–4.00%
SOFR
3.90%2026-10-22
10-year real (TIPS)
2.66%2026-10-23
10-year breakeven inflation
2.34%
Spreads over the last year, basis points — below zero the curve is inverted 10y − 2y 10y − 3m
Sources: U.S. Department of the Treasury, daily par yield curve rates; Federal Reserve Bank of New York, EFFR and SOFR. Treasury par yields as of 2026-10-23.
Bond flows: where duration money is moving
Duration bets: net Treasury futures, in 10-year-note equivalents
Asset managersLeveraged funds
Treasury ETF ladder: price returns
Maturity
1 week
1 month
3 months
BIL1–3 month bills
0.1%
—
—
SHY1–3 years
0.2%
—
—
IEI3–7 years
0.4%
—
—
IEF7–10 years
0.7%
—
—
TLH10–20 years
1.3%
—
—
TLT20+ years
1.6%
—
—
Long maturities beating short ones means buyers are reaching for duration (or yields are falling). Returns show once the price history covers the period.
By maturity, week of 2026-10-20
Contract
Asset managers, net
Week's change
Share of open interest
Against the last 3 years
Leveraged funds, net
Week's change
2-year note
+1,723,580
−72,286
38.0%
21st percentile
−1,285,548
+81,860
5-year note
+2,928,052
−56,900
43.6%
37th percentile
−2,117,544
−13,153
10-year note
+2,925,416
+26,854
49.9%
near the top
−2,107,224
+98,713
Ultra 10-year
+737,266
−60,228
27.7%
86th percentile
−318,477
+17,381
Treasury bond
+388,007
−3,527
21.7%
near the bottom
−162,757
−8,737
Ultra bond
+849,383
+72,891
35.9%
13th percentile
−804,808
−89,079
Positions as of each Tuesday, published by the CFTC the Friday after. Asset managers — pension funds, insurers, mutual funds — hold Treasury futures as a cheap way to own duration; leveraged funds are mostly short the futures against cash bonds (the basis trade), so their position mirrors the asset managers'. In 10-year equivalents each contract is weighted by its approximate interest-rate risk, so a long-bond contract counts about twice a 10-year note.
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Sector rotation: where funds and insiders are moving
Funds' net buying is each fund's latest quarterly report against its previous one, valued at today's prices so a price move alone isn't buying. Insider buyers: companies where a director or officer bought on the open market in the last 90 days.
8 funds · each fund's latest report against its previous one