Bonds Funds are breaking out to new 3-month highs. This comes after consensus this September was for higher US rates, and therefore, lower prices for bonds. When the market is leaning too much in any one direction, the unwind of that extreme positioning can be intense. That’s what I believe has been happening throughout the 4th quarter.
Here are two charts that show rates could continue lower for some time. The first is a long-term chart of the US 10-year Yield failing to break out above the downtrend in place since 1981: [Read more…]