Quiet day on the rate front ...

There's not a heck of a lot going on in bond land today (small bounce in prices, small dip in yields) ahead of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech tomorrow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. That's set for 1 p.m. We'll just have to see if any "tape bombs" come out of the prepared statement or the Q&A period afterward. Meanwhile, here's a link to that CNBC spot if you didn't catch it this morning.