On the money: When bonds come crashing down
Thanks to quantitative easing, interest rates are extremely low and bond durations have become extended to lengths not typical pre-GFC.
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Hints at how bond markets might tank were given by a recent article in The Economist.
In an article entitled, “Who’s scary now?” the magazine fingered duration and liquidity in bond markets as two principal concerns.
Neither duration nor liquidity is likely to be well understood by the lay
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Michael Coote
Fri, 04 Nov 2016
Fri, 04 Nov 2016
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On the money: When bonds come crashing down
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