“In recent days, bond yields have risen on expectations that Trump will win the presidency and that his new term would bring higher deficits, inflation or both.”
Bond investors dumped their long-term Treasuries as the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates this year. But now the Fed has rolled back its expectations for 2025 rate cuts, and investors are still fleeing 10-year debt, with even greater urgency. What gives?
Two things in particular are increasing in price – energy, like gas and electricity, and food. These are things we need and depend on. So, what’s causing the rises? Rob There seem to be two main reasons – the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine, which has reduced the supply in...
Why are bank stocks rising?Tamal Bandyopadhyay
; the dreaded Dow Jones 2% days, and the NYSE begins seeing days of extreme market breadth; A-D 70% days, those would be bearish omens of bad things to come. Rising bond yields are never bullish for the stock market, though bull markets in precious metals thrive on rising bond yields....
substitute for low-yielding Treasury bonds—a safe asset in which the globally mobile can store their wealth. After years of rapid price rises, houses in the most favoured markets are overvalued. Rising bond yields, tighter mortgage credit and shifting politics are now combining to push prices ...
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Treasury securities are considered safer investments relative to stocks because they are backed by the U.S. government. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions, which means that falling prices boost yields and rising prices lower yields. ...
We argue that these patterns are best explained by the rising private burden of expenditures on housing, education, and health care. These effects and precautionary motives may have been amplified by financial underdevelopment, as reflected in constraints on borrowing against future income and low ...
The bandwagon effect is a phenomenon in which people do something primarily because other people are doing it.