When risk-free assets, with de minimus regulatory capital requirements move like penny stocks, firms are forced to do something about economic risk capital - either derisk (sell assets), or increase capital (delever carry). The ongoing carnage in the world's bond market is creating just such a self-fulfilling problem for risk-assets everywhere (despite simpleton hopes that bond-selling means stock-buying - it doesn't as the marginal buyer is all repo/carry funded and not 'real' cash being rotated). Everywhere one looks, financial markets are turmoiling...
Bonds...
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Commodities...
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The Dollar...
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Stocks...
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Charts: Bloomberg
