{"id":58076,"date":"2021-05-30T07:11:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T12:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58076"},"modified":"2021-05-30T07:11:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T12:11:16","slug":"suffering-a-sea-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58076","title":{"rendered":"Suffering a sea-change"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\n

Suffering a sea-change<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
\n
There is an established theoretical relationship between bonds and equities which provides a framework for the future performance of financial assets. It would be a mistake to ignore it, ahead of the forthcoming rise in global interest rates.<\/strong>Price inflation is roaring, and so far, central banks are in denial. But it is increasingly difficult to see how monetary policy planners can extend the suppression of interest rates for much longer. There can only be one outcome: markets, that is to say prices determined by non-state actors, will force central banks to capitulate on interest rates in the summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hardly noticed, China is deliberately putting the brakes on its economy, which will cause an inflationary dollar to collapse, unless the US defends it by putting up interest rates. Deliberate? Almost certainly, as part of its strategy, China is taking the financial war with the US into the foreign exchanges.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bond yields will rise, with the US Treasury 10-year bond leaving a 2% yield far behind. Equity markets will sense the danger, and it might turn out that the month of May marks a peak in financial asset values \u2014 following cryptocurrencies into substantial bear markets.<\/strong>
\nIntroduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is an old stock market adage that you should sell in May and go away. It has already proved its worth in the case of cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin more than halving at one point, and Ethereum losing 57% between 10\u201419 May. A sea-change in cryptocurrencies\u2019 market sentiment has taken place.<\/p>\n

As for equities, it could also turn out that 10 May, which so far has marked the S&P 500 Index\u2019s high point, will mark the beginning of their decline. But it\u2019s too soon to tell…<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suffering a sea-change There is an established theoretical relationship between bonds and equities which provides a framework for the future performance of financial assets. It would be a mistake to ignore it, ahead of the forthcoming rise in global interest rates.Price inflation is roaring, and so far, central banks are in denial. But it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7772,124,5829,431,13351],"class_list":["post-58076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-alasdair-macleod","tag-central-banks","tag-goldmoney","tag-interest-rates","tag-price-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58079,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076\/revisions\/58079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}