March U.S. T-Note (ZNH26) futures present a selling opportunity on more price weakness.
See on the daily bar chart for March U.S. Treasury note futures that a price downtrend is in place on the daily bar chart and prices last week hit a four-week low. See, too, at the bottom of the chart that the moving average convergence divergence (MACD) indicator is in a bearish posture as the blue MACD line is below the red trigger line and both lines are trending down.
Fundamentally, sticky U.S. inflation and a more hawkish-sounding Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at his last FOMC press conference has thrown into question a U.S. interest rate cut in December. That’s bearish for U.S. Treasury prices. And the increasing likelihood the U.S. government will reopen soon has taken away some of the “flight-to-quality” investor demand for U.S. Treasuries that had been present during the federal government shutdown.
A move in March T-Note futures below chart support at last week’s low of 112.07.0 would give the bears more power and it would also become a selling opportunity. The downside price objective would be 110.16.0, or below. Technical resistance, for which to place a protective buy stop just above, is located at 113.00.0.
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