The 10-Year Hit 5% on the Day the Bond Market Took Off

Brad Roth
November 11, 2026

TL;DR

• October CPI beat forecasts, 0.4% for headline and 0.3% for core, and the two-year jumped about 17 basis points. The ten-year is quoted at 5.01% on a holiday with no cash Treasury trading.

• The S&P 500 lost 0.37% Tuesday while the seven sectors in the even-weight strategy averaged a small gain. Financials led at 0.52%, and healthcare, the largest of the seven, added 0.29%.

• Futures have turned. Nasdaq 100 futures are up 1.90% and S&P 500 futures 0.87%.

Market Pulse

Futures as of 7:25 AM ET, commodities as of 7:24 AM ET, yields as of 7:25 AM ET, currencies as of 7:16 AM ET

• S&P 500 futures are up 0.87% at 7,586.60.

• Nasdaq 100 futures are up 1.90% at 28,268.80.

• Dow futures are up 0.12% at 52,293.70.

• Russell 2000 futures are up 0.80% at 2,843.90.

Tuesday went the other way. The S&P 500 fell 0.37%, the Nasdaq 100 0.68%, the Dow 0.31% and the Russell 2000 0.68%. Six of eleven sectors still closed green.

• West Texas is $87.33, up 1.50%. Brent is $93.28, up 1.96%.

• Gold is $4,052.97, up 0.56%, after Tuesday's 2.7% drop. Silver is up 3.20% at $52.87, and copper is up 0.93% at $6.29.

• The ten-year is quoted at 5.009%, up 2.5 basis points. The two-year closed Tuesday at 4.748% and the three-month bill at 4.221%.

• Euro/dollar is 1.1136, down 0.25%. The dollar buys 159.17 yen. VIX futures are 19.00, down 4.55%. Bitcoin is near $73,960, up 0.23%.

• The Mortgage Bankers Association put the 30-year mortgage rate at 7.21%, down from 7.30%, in a survey taken before the CPI report. No major U.S. data follows today.

THOR Risk Gauge

Neutral. Equity futures are green across all four indexes and VIX futures sit at 19, down from 20 a day ago. Against that, a hot core reading has a December hike fully priced and the ten-year quoted over 5%.

The THOR View

A hot inflation report hits the stocks priced on far-off earnings first, and Tuesday showed it. Core CPI came in at 0.3% for October, the third straight month at that pace, against 0.2% expected, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Technology fell 1.15% and dragged the S&P 500 down 0.37%. The seven sectors in the even-weight strategy averaged a gain of about 0.08%, with financials, healthcare, staples and consumer discretionary all green. Most of the seven earn their money from today's customers, so a higher discount rate takes less off their value.

Healthcare is the cleanest example. It's the largest sector in the strategy and rose 0.29% while the index slipped. A patient doesn't skip a prescription because the two-year moved. Hospital volumes, drug sales and insurer premiums run on demand that doesn't need a loan, and those earnings arrive now, not in 2030. The discount rate does far less damage to them. The sector already got a policy read a week ago, when hospital stocks jumped on the election result, per Reuters. The risk for healthcare sits in Washington next year, not at the Fed.

The ten-year quote at 5.009% comes with an asterisk. The cash Treasury market is closed for Veterans Day, so this morning's level is thin trade. Tuesday's 10-year auction cleared at 5.020%, per the Treasury, and that's the better anchor. Real estate is the holding closest to that number, because landlords refinance against long rates. It lost just 0.13% Tuesday, since rents already reset higher with inflation and that income offsets part of the funding cost. The lineup is set up for a market that pays for cash flow it can see, and Tuesday's report did nothing to change that.

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Signal Watch

THOR Index Rotation — As of 11/10/26

Banks, insurers and industrial names make up much of the Dow, and they took Tuesday's rate jump in stride. That kept the 30-stock index a step ahead of the S&P 500 on the day.

THOR Low Volatility — As of 11/10/26

Materials was the worst of the seven on a hot CPI day, down just 0.17% as gold slid. Staples and healthcare sell things people buy in any rate regime.

THOR AdaptiveRisk Dynamic — As of 11/10/26

Roughly seven dollars in ten sit in stocks, about a fifth splits between bonds and alternatives, and the rest is commodities and currency. The interest rate hedge gains as long yields rise, so a ten-year over 5% works for it.

THOR Conservative Risk Dynamic — As of 11/10/26

Less than half is in stocks, close to a quarter in alternatives, and cash plus the rate hedge make up most of the rest. Energy sits a fraction behind the largest line, and crude is up 1.5% this morning.

One Thing to Watch

Cash Treasuries reopen Thursday after the holiday. If the ten-year holds above 5% with real volume behind it, refinancing costs for landlords climb faster than rents, and real estate stops shrugging off the move. A close back under 5% keeps the case for cash-flow sectors intact.

Brad Roth / CIO, THOR Financial Technologies

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