Maybe I’m too used to the Fed Governors all sharing their opinion about tapering, but I don’t think tomorrow is going to be about Powell announcing, “tapering to start during X month."
That doesn’t make it not close, what we see with August payrolls in is going to be interesting.
Another bumper payroll report and frankly, I expect to hear something firmer in late September then (and it will be interesting to see how stocks and bonds react on August payrolls day).
NOW, if the first sentence is completely incorrect, tomorrow has the potential of getting very interesting considering what has happened in the past couple weeks. I think Icahn coming in and selling those 3600 November puts on Thursday last week ended up leading to a lot of hedges for this week being squeezed on Friday and Monday. So, this market might not be as "well-hedged" as normal for tomorrow.
In fact, some of the red today might have to do with bigger money putting hedges back on for tomorrow.
Heck, even if nothing is announced, if the Fed isn’t careful with their wording, you could still end up seeing TNX soar which could cause a sell off.