Even after a selloff last week amid rising tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, a Bloomberg Barclays index of global junk bonds still yields 5.3 percent, 100 basis points below the average for the past five years.
Events of the past year including make-or-break elections for the euro have washed over financial markets, suggesting policy, not politics, would be the rally’s undoing.
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Aug 15, 2017
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Yields are diving as President Trump and Kim Jong Un continue to spar.
Geopolitics, low-inflation figures, soft data and dovish Fed comments can’t seem to break the narrow trading range, says Informa’s Chief Macro Strategist David Ader.