by Simon White | Feb 5, 2020 | European Economy
January is typically a very busy month for European sovereign issuance as national treasuries kick off their annual funding programmes. This year has seen a marked uptick in supply relative to the previous year as issuers have taken advantage of low borrowing costs to...
by Bill | Feb 17, 2017 | US Economy, US Equities
Higher economic growth usually translates into higher bond yields, higher stocks and rising oil prices; but, too much of a good thing is bad for stocks. Over the past few weeks, we’ve shown that our stock/bond RSI signal has triggered. We now have an Inflationary...
by Bill | Nov 28, 2016 | US Economy
(from our Tactical of November 8th 2016) Bond yields have been rising in most countries, and yield curves have steepened across the developed world. As the top chart shows, the rise in nominal yields has come from a rise in inflation breakevens, while real yields...
by Bill | Sep 12, 2014 | UK
Yield curves almost everywhere have been flattening. At the long end of yield curves, bonds have been rallying all year. This is to be expected in Europe, where growth remains lacklustre, inflation is very weak, and the ECB is firmly in easing mode. However, even...
by Bill | Jul 2, 2013 | Featured, Global Economy, Monetary Policy, US Economy
No-one ever said that investing was easy, but when textbook correlations start to break down it can be outright painful. Such of course has been the environment in recent couple of months with stocks and bonds falling in unison. It won’t last forever, but it may...
by Bill | Apr 24, 2013 | Featured, Global Economy, Tactical
Judging by the comments from most analysts and commentators, global equities remain the place to be and equity markets are still doing well. This is certainly true if you look at Japan, but in general it is not exactly correct. On a 1 month basis, even the otherwise...
by Bill | Feb 14, 2012 | European Economy
Government bond yields have declined substantially in Italy on the back of ECB’s 3Y LTRO as well as the commitment of the new government to austerity. Yet, leading indicators have slumped to a post crisis lows and sustainable growth seems far away as ever. Amid...
