In an echo of last week's move following North Korea's teating of missiles across Japan's territory, futures markets are opening in a decidedly risk-off mannwr following North Korea's "hydrogen bomb" test. Dow Futs down 100 points, Gold jumping and Treasury bonds bid...
All major US equity indices are down...
Gold is back above $1340...
USDJPY broke below 110.00
And VIX futures are spiking back into last week's Korea crisis region...
Two weeks ago, we were surprised to find that despite the recent "growth promise" of what has been called a coordinated global recovery, the market value of bonds yielding less than 0% had quietly jumped by a quarter in just one month to the highest since October 2016.
Authored by EconomicPrism's MN Gordon via Acting-Man.com,
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