Wall Street seeks shelter in Treasuries as midterms threaten to throw Washington into a fiscal gridlock

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With only a couple of seats left to be called in the midterm elections, a “blue wave” is preparing to wash through Congress. Voters made it clear they were unhappy with Republicans in the first two years of President Trump’s administration, with 54 Democrats elected to the Senate and 44 Republicans, as of this writing, per CNBC.Consumers will want to see action on issues close to home from their newly elected officials, namely affordability and inflation. Military conflict with Iran has pushed up oil prices and, as a result, gas prices. That action came after Trump’s tariff scheme, which targeted exports from foreign countries, but economists say it resulted in increased costs being passed back to consumers. While Main Street has a checklist of action it wants to see, Wall Street is hedging on how the new power dynamics on Capitol Hill will play out. In the early hours of this morning, yields on longer-dated bonds trended downward as demand inversely rose. 30-Year Treasuries pushed…

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