Giordano Lombardo
John Carey
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Paresh Upadhyaya
Sam WardwellCentral banks have taken numerous measures to inject liquidity into their domestic economies. This has helped boost risk appetite and investor sentiment.
- The European Central Bank’s stabilization programs have successfully reduced financial market and sovereign tail risk for banks.
- Global growth troughed in Q2 2012, but has been on an upward trend since.
- Market concerns over the U.S. debt situation are easing as the U.S. economy proved surprisingly resilient to many uncertainties.
As a result, investors are concerned that bond yields, which move inversely to prices, have bottomed for the U.S. 10-year Treasury and will surge, raising fears of a bond bear market along the lines of the Great Bond Bear Market of 1994. (more…)
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