Bond Outlook June 20th

The shift of foreign purchases from US T-Bonds to other bonds and equities reflects government decisions about reserve management. Normalisation of the USD yield curve will have serious repercussions.

Bond Outlook [by bridport & cie, June 20th 2007]

Concrete evidence has now come forth to confirm much of what we were surmising last week, viz. that the reserves of surplus countries are being directed away from US T-Bonds and towards equities, direct or indirect. The evidence was presented this week by John Maulden quoting from Treasury International Capital: in April almost USD 100 billion was invested in Agency bonds, corporate bonds and equities, allegedly by private investors.

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