From the NYT Dealbook:
Wall Street never thought it would be this bad. Over the last two
months, and particularly over the last two weeks, investors have been exiting
their bond investments with unexpected ferocity, moves that continued through
Monday.
A bond sell-off has been anticipated for years, given the
long run of popularity that corporate and government bonds have enjoyed. But
most strategists expected that investors would slowly transfer out of bonds,
allowing interest rates to slowly drift up.
Instead, since the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, recently suggested
that the strength of the economic recovery might allow the Fed to slow down its
bond-buying program, waves of selling have convulsed the markets.
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