High political drama in Westminster dominates headlines. Yesterday we saw the new prime minister suffer his first commons defeat. The motion to rule out a ‘No Deal’ Brexit progresses with a 27 majority. A general […]
One of the direct consequences of sub-zero sovereign bond yield is reinforcing the ‘dash for yield’. Investors are soaking up large quantities of better-rated fixed-income securities that pay positive returns. One such security is the […]
Great financial bubbles are a generational thing. The dot-com bubble lasted the entire nineties; as did the Japanese bubble a decade earlier. Are government bonds the current ‘Bubble of the Decade’? Over the past year, […]
Instability in Hong Kong and Argentina is scaring even more capital into haven assets. On Monday stocks declined; while Gold and US Treasury bonds rose. The latter is on the cusp of surging to new […]
Once a price trend begins in earnest, it usually self-perpetuates, just like Newton’s first law. One such trend to develop of late is found among government bonds. German sovereign government bonds, usually known as Bunds, have […]
Earlier this year (around late February to March), US gov bonds surged as investors feared an economic slowdown. Capital flocked to safety. Government yields nosedived and trillions of bonds went into negative yields (Note: yields […]
As a technical signal, it does not get stronger than bond’s upside breakout last Friday. In other words, government bond yields are crashing down (note: bond yields move inversely to bond prices). The validates my […]
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