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#ISMBeatYieldsFall Manufacturing data came in far hotter than expected on Monday. The ISM Manufacturing PMI jumped to 55.6 in July, up sharply from 53.3 in June and well above the 54.0 consensus forecast — marking the strongest reading since May 2022 and the seventh straight month of expansion. The strength ran across the board: output growth hit its fastest pace since late 2021, new orders kept climbing, and the employment index moved back into expansion territory for the first time since January 2025. Businesses front-loading orders to dodge tariff and supply-chain risks tied to Middle East tensions, plus continued AI-driven capital spending, both helped drive the surge. Normally a beat this strong would push Treasury yields higher on inflation concerns, but yields actually fell — and the reason had little to do with manufacturing at all. The bigger market movers Monday were geopolitical: President Trump signaled that a planned strike on Iran had been called off amid progress in negotiations, and Japan and the U.S. announced a joint intervention to prop up a sliding yen. Oil retreated on the Iran news, and that combination — easing energy costs plus the currency intervention — pulled yields down even as the hard economic data pointed to a stronger, more inflationary economy. It's a reminder that yields aren't just reading domestic data right now; geopolitics and currency policy are driving the tape just as much.