Stock Market Rattle: inflation, growing debt supply, rising Federal Reserve borrowing costs

[Ghost Dog]

... Creeping gains in U.S. Treasury yields are fuelling fears that portfolio managers may move money into safer fixed-income securities at the expense of riskier assets like stocks and emerging markets. The 10-year yield, a benchmark for global borrowing costs, has been driven steadily higher by a combination of concerns over inflation, growing debt supply, and rising Federal Reserve borrowing costs...

... “We’ve seen quite a lot of companies announcing above-estimate earnings and their shares falling sharply,” said Norihiro Fujito, senior investment strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities... “If shares are falling when corporate earnings are rising 20 percent and the economy is growing at 3 percent, the market is in trouble. The market reaction so far feels as if we are starting to see an end of its long rally since 2009. Investors could be thinking that the best time will be soon behind us,” he said...

“Higher yields are no doubt having a negative impact on emerging markets. We are likely to see outflows from emerging market bonds,” said Takahiko Sasaki, market economist at Mizuho Bank...

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-global-markets/asian-shares-rattled-by-rising-u-s-yields-cost-worries-idUKKBN1HW02J



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Joseph Conrad

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.”

Terry Pratchett

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[Sherman A1]

1. It will be a full employment day for the TV Financial Talking Heads

This could be as simply as profit taking, it could be a market correction or it could be something surrounding the interest rate increase or any of a number of different things.

[Ghost Dog]

2. Turn off the TV Sherman!

[Sherman A1]

3. I generally have it off

Or at least not on any cable infotainment news channel for more than a few minutes. That said, a bit of Bloomberg or CNBC could be entertaining to watch them twist the logic around into a 🥨.

This also works for cable news. Or

[Ghost Dog]

4. I guess a segment like this, in isolation, is worthwhile:

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