#The Tell: This is the technical reason why the 10-year Treasury rate has a chance of climbing back to around 1.4%

The widely followed 10-year yield
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1.291%
is the benchmark that guides a wide array of other borrowing costs, like those on mortgages. It fell to a five-month low below 1.18% to start the week, bursting through its 200-day moving average, on concerns about the spreading COVID-19’s delta variant and amid a flight-to-safety in bonds by investors. But it’s since bounced back as investor sentiment improves.

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Monday’s rally triggered a few “notable” signals suggesting “overbought” conditions and “a bounce to 1.35%, maybe 1.42%, by early August,” says BofA technical strategist Paul Ciana. The break below all supports, including the 200-day moving average, “favors a downtrend in yield, not a correction” since the yield’s peak in the second quarter. Yields and bond prices move in opposite directions.

“Now would be an impressive place for a stronger-than-expected reversal,” Ciana wrote in the note on Wednesday. That reversal, resulting in higher yields at the end of July and/or early August, would help form a distinctive pattern in the rate’s recent trajectory: It would look something like “the right shoulder of a head and shoulders” figure.

As long-end yields recovered Wednesday, stocks climbed, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 286 points, or 0.8%. The S&P 500 SPX also rose 0.8%.