Worst US Bond Selloff Since 1787 Marks End of Free-Money Era
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Carnage from the bond market - where the rout is worse than anything you'll find in the history books - is spreading, and the implications are nasty.
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There was a remarkable chart in the latest Flow Show note from BofA resident bear Michael Hartnett: after peaking in July 2020 and in the subsequent 28 months drawing down by a record 25%, this is now the single greatest bond bear market of all time!
In what could be termed the mother of all the bubbles, the duration sell-off in the bond markets has now reached unprecedented levels.
If ever there was a shred of doubt about Elon Musk's intentions to move more volume at lower prices for Tesla this year, those thoughts should officially be put to bed.
Rates are expected to stay higher for longer, an idea Fed officials have tried to get the market to accept and which investors are only now beginning to absorb.
History is starting to repeat itself. In 2008, bond prices crashed before stock prices did.
Losses on longer-dated Treasuries are beginning to rival some of the most notorious market meltdowns in US history.
"We do not see a clear catalyst to stem the bleeding," the strategists wrote in a note.
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The decline in China's home construction has been remarkable, almost rivaling the US housing crisis of 2008. It raises the question: Why are commodity prices so resilient if one of the biggest buyers is in malaise?
Some investors dismiss the declines as noise in year of gains
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"There's something very, very wrong with this market," Milton Berg said on the latest episode of the "Forward Guidance" podcast.
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Shares of bankrupt (former) Chinese property giant, Evergrande Group, crashed 79% on Monday, their first trading day following a suspension of more than 17 months.
Moments ago the Treasury completed the first of Monday's two coupon auctions (the scheduled is truncated due to this week's economic data barrage), and it was a solid sale of 2Y paper.
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Dollar Tree Inc.'s shares got whacked in the premarket trading hours in New York after second-quarter earnings slid from a year ago.
The trend of higher-for-longer yields remained intact on Monday, despite the fact that traders still expect the U.S. central bank to be approaching the end of its rate-hike campaign and reaching its so-called terminal level for interest rates.
Michael Burry, the investor who predicted the 2008 housing crash and was the subject of the "Big Short" movie, has bet more than $1.6 billion on a Wall Street crash.
Interest rates are rising, tune in to see how you can tip the odds in your favor in a inflated market.
It might look like it's been defeated, but US inflation is poised to begin accelerating again soon. Stocks and bonds are unpriced for this outcome.
China deflation, Italian authorities watering down bank-tax threats, and fears about the AI Boom's reality (SMCI's comments dragged down NVDA) were the headline narrative-shapers of the day... but all anyone cares about is the giant event risk mounta
Despite Washington (and Wall St) going to great lengths to restore confidence, Moody's warned that banks with substantial unrealized losses that are not captured by their regulatory capital ratios may still be susceptible to sudden losses of market
When skepticism shifts to euphoria as quickly as it has in 2023's stock and bond markets, the comeuppance is apt to be swift.
U.S. stocks have been on a tear this year, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite scoring their strongest first seven months of a year in decades, according to Dow Jones Market Data.