China is on a roll upsetting neighbors from all directions in its aggressive stance towards territorial claims.

As we approach the June ECB meeting, investors are increasingly focused on what the central bank could be contemplating.

Since the last Employment report things have been relatively quiet on the economic and Central Bank front but all that is set to change over the next three weeks. Volatility should pick up and many of these events could be potentially market moving for certain asset classes.

Everybody knew the GDP number was going to be revised down on this reading, and that it probably gets revised up for the next reading, and Bond Traders used the Revision in first quarter GDP to take the 10-Year Yield down to 2.4%

The Jobless claims data came out on Thursday and the trend is still in place and bodes well for the May Employment Report. The 4-week average is down a significant 11,250 to a new recovery low of 311,500.

Since so many people are still slightly confused about how all the pieces come together in this move lower in yields we feel the need to add some follow-up commentary to our previous article entitled "The Bond Market Explained for CNBC"...

There has been a lot on Bond Buying in Europe and that enthusiasm has transferred over to the United States with the thought that European Central-bank President Mario Draghi is going to embark on some massive bond buying stimulus program...

We occasionally turn the volume up on the TV`s just to hear what others are thinking in mainstream business media with the Sales & Name Game that is business television these days and CNBC asked the following question: “Why if everybody is talking about inflation is the bond market not moving?”

The Federal Reserve meeting begins Tuesday June 17th with the FOMC meeting announcement the following day Wednesday June 18th which will be followed by their forecasts and the Fed Chair press conference.

With cheap domestic natural gas prices and tighter environmental regulations, U.S. demand for coal has fallen. So coal export has become ever more important to domestic coal producers. With accelerating growth in economy and power demand, Asia is the obvious new export target for U.S coal.

There has been a trend of late to compare European and Japanese Bond yields to that of the United States and England so I think it necessary to define some large flaws in these comparisons.

The biggest news to come out of Friday's financial market activity was James Bullard’s thoughts on when he expects the Fed to start raising rates, he believes the Fed will start raising rates sometime near the end of the first quarter of 2015.

The labor market is really starting to tighten and Thursday`s initial jobless claims coming in at 297,000 for the May 10 week is the lowest reading since May 2007.

So a bunch of folks in Hedge Fund Land have this idea that they can force a bit of a squeeze in the bond markets, and all the sudden the boring old bond market has been on the media roadshow by firms trying to talk their book, and get others to follow suit, and go long the bond market.

As Cushing supplies decline due to increased logistic options out of the storage hub in the Midwest PADD 2 in Cushing

Asset Managers risk buying at such elevated levels (priced for perfection) that any bad news can send them easily down 7% with a drop of the hat, and this is not how an asset manager wants to start off the year from a 7% hole.