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CNBC Top News · July 21, 2026 source

“JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon made bearish call on treasury bond market. Many investors already acted on it”

R5/ 10
Selective
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In short
Rubbish Talk rates CNBC's claim that investors "already acted on" Jamie Dimon's bond warning a 5/10 because the cited ETF flows into short-term treasuries stretch back a full year, well before Dimon made the comments the headline credits them to.
The Verdict
Selective. Every number in the piece checks out, but the headline implies investors moved money in response to Dimon's call. The article's own data show the short-treasuries trend predates his remarks by up to twelve months, meaning the causal link the headline sells is coincidence dressed as consequence.

What actually happened

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told CNBC's Wilfred Frost this week that he wouldn't buy stocks or long-dated Treasuries at current prices. "The 10-year bond should probably be at 4% to 4.5%," he said, and even if inflation begins to fall back closer to the Federal Reserve's 2% target, the CEO of the nation's biggest bank says he does not see much upside for prices in the long-dated government bonds. Separately, ETF flow data shows investors have been favouring short-term treasuries funds for the past year, a trend that continued into June and July.

Key facts

  • The JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO said he wouldn't be a buyer of long-dated government bonds here, and he wouldn't buy the S&P 500 at this level either.
  • The 10-year Treasury yield is currently about 4.6% and has remained above 4.2% since March after they had trended closer to 4% late last year.
  • SGOV, the iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF, has added $47.5 billion in net inflows this year, making it the third-biggest bond ETF overall according to ETFAction.com data cited in the article.
  • The flows trend is not new to this week: it has run for a full year and continued through June, when SGOV ranked No. 5 among all ETFs for monthly flows.
  • Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has signaled that policymakers won't tolerate elevated inflation, and that has caused the market's view of the probability of rate cuts to plunge.

What to watch for

Watch whether SGOV inflows accelerate specifically after this week's comments, which would support a genuine "reaction" narrative rather than a pre-existing trend. Also watch the equity side: CNBC's own reporting notes investors have ignored Dimon's parallel stock warning entirely, still piling record sums into equity ETFs, a detail that undercuts any claim Dimon's overall market call is being followed.

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