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Category: US Bonds
Bond market:

World avoids US private debt

Fed Flow of Funds Table F.107, US$ billions (annual flows) to Q2 2009

The flight to safer investments, which started with the Crash of 2008, has accelerated as the consequences of economic policies of the Obama administration have become evident.

There has been a net swing away from certain classes of private debt on the order of USD 1.5 trillion, between 2006 and Q2 2009. This money has gone into US Treasury securities, driving rates to almost zero.

Hugo Chavez

The US bond market’s friend

Hugo Chaves

On January 11, 2007, Hugo Chavez Frias was sworn in for a third term as Venezuela’s president, promising to expropriate strategic sectors of the economy, specifically public utilities and oil properties and to generally run rough-shod over property rights and the rule of law. This is unadulterated good news for the US domestic bond markets. Perhaps we should light a candle to Saint Jimmy.

US Bonds Q2 2006

Investment grade corporates hold steady

Long Down Trend in AAA Corporate Bond Yields

The graph suggests that from a long-term perspective, corporate bond yields in recent months have been flattening out to match the reduction in growth of the trade deficit, rather than moving along with Federal Reserve short-term interest rates. Consistent with a leveling of the rate of increase in the US trade deficit in 2006, the price of investment grade corporate bonds has been holding steady.

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