Tuesday, October 23, 2007

It May Not Be As Bad As It Looks

The forex is buzzing with comments about the change in the risk environment. The JPY is strengthening against just about everything, stocks are down again following Friday’s rout and the USD retraced last weeks losses against the EUR and GBP. However, if the risk environment was really changing, I would expect bond prices to be rising and yields to be falling. So far, this session, the bond yields would dispute this situation. The 10-year yield is rising, which means bonds are falling. This is not only contrary to the assumed risk bias out there but is against the movement in [...]

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[Source: The Money Blogs]

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