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A Bearish Positive Carry Trade?

A Bearish Positive Carry Trade?

Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog,

The Eurostoxx outperformance of the past month has garnered a lot of attention, but there is another similar trade many investors are missing. Not only that, but it has a positive carry, something that is sorely lacking in this day and age of NIRP.

 

Since early April, the German Bund / US T-note 10 year yield spread has rallied 35 basis points, rising from negative 220 bps to 185 bps.