Rising rates and a flatter curve have fueled investor demand. If rates fall, we would expect to see some profit taking in the 10-year sector as demonstrated by recent patterns in spreads and rates.


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MARGARET ATWOOD
The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradual...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting ...
MARGARET MEAD
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
MARGARET OLIPHANT
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...
MARGARET FULLER
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
MARGARET THATCHER
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder...
MARGARET MEAD
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g...
MARGARET HALSEY
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...
MARGARET THATCHER
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
MARGARET THATCHER
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
MARGARET FULLER
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
MARGARET DRABBLE
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL
I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
MARGARET THATCHER
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto...
MARGARET MEAD
Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite...
MARGARET MEAD
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate ...
MARGARET MEAD
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky...
MARGARET MEAD
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
MARGARET FULLER
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER
Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immedi...
MARGARET BROWNLEY
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words....
MARGARET OLIPHANT
The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
MARGARET GATTY
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a...
MARGARET THATCHER
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a...
MARGARET MEAD
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to t...
MARGARET MEAD
When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
MARGARET SACKVILLE
I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.
MARGARET THATCHER
The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you nee...
MARGARET YOUNG
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people ins...
MARGARET HALSEY
It takes two to destroy a marriage.
MARGARET TRUDEAU
If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
MARGARET THATCHER
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT
There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Ph...
MARGARET FULLER
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the reclu...
MARGARET FULLER
Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.
MARGARET MITCHELL
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e...
MARGARET MEAD