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This chart is just the worst

Oct 1, 2015, 02:39 IST

This chart is just the worst.

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Via Deutsche Bank's Torsten Sløk, this chart shows the decline in where Wall Street analysts thought the 10-year Treasury note would finish 2015.

Last summer, everybody thought yields were going higher and that the 10-year would rise to north of 3.5%.

By this month, Wall Street was still hanging onto its call that yields would rise, but had trimmed expectations to around 2.4% from today's yield of about 2.1%.

And so these projections simply followed the 10-year yield itself lower and re-based to call for higher yields from a lower starting point.

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Said another way, the Street was wrong the whole time and never really admitted to it, even though they tried.

Deutsche Bank

And here's what happened to the 10-year note over that period.

FRED

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