Sell the news? Stocks are slumping (following Japan's overnight volatility) as traders await tax-cut legislation from the House Ways and Means Committee (and The Senate will also release its own version).
High-Tax companies are underperforming...
And Junk bonds just hit the lowest since March...
Let’s talk about inflation.
There are two types of inflation in the world… the “inflation” that you and I experience in the form of a rising cost of living induced by Central Banks devaluing our currencies…
...and the inflation that Central Banks are “targeting” in the bizarre claim that somehow hitting said targets will unleash economic growth.
Inflation #1 is depicted in the chart below. This is the reason why everything "costs" more today than it used to.
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
Here we go again…
Since June of 2013, I have been writing about the reasons why rates can’t rise much and why calls for the end of the “bond bull market” remain wrong.
How Europe and France’s stock markets perform can have a huge influence on stocks in the states. The first two charts below look at the FTSE 100 from London and the CAC 40 from France.
CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE
Something has changed...
For months high yield bond yields have been compressed alongside rising stock prices as the flood of global liquidity from central banks.
ECB buying has driven European junk bond yields below those of US Treasuries and in turn that has pressured global high yield risk lower - despite a rise in leverage to record highs.
However, the last two weeks have seen a big shift in flows as investors have fled high yield funds and pushed into investment grade and Treasuries.