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In case you hadn't noticed, Treasury yields are on a tear. Here's how to trade them.
How about those Treasury yields? By the end of trading, they had reached their highest levels since May of 2011 - and naturally the dollar got a lift at the same time.
Meanwhile, market volatility is low, and currency trading is thin. So how can you trade the Treasury move?
Rebecca Patterson, chief investment officer at Bessemer Trust, wants to fade it. She says bond yields are going up because investors are less alarmed about the euro zone debt crisis, and U.S. economic data has been mildly encouraging. Also, investors have extended long-duration Treasury positions, and many are covering those positions.
"Is it good for the dollar? It's good for the dollar against some currencies, specifically the yen," Patterson told CNBC's Melissa Lee . In the past, she says, the yen was often used as a funding currency - the currency to short against others with higher yields - and that relationship is back.
"Right now with this rise in yields, about 40 basis points just in the last few weeks, the dollar has gotten a lift against the yen, i.e. it's better to borrow yen."
But Patterson is not convinced the high yields will last.
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