Hartnett: Trump priced in!

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Michael Hartnett at BofA with another terrific note.


Zeitgeist: “20-year corporate bonds now yielding 6.3%…you would think with stocks up 20% past 2years pension funds would be looking to park some of those gains in bonds”

The Biggest Picture: at no time in the past 90 years has 10-year rolling return from USTreasuries been negative. It is now (-0.5%–Chart2)–this is peak in “anything but bonds” trade of 2020s; by comparison, long-run returns for US stocks 13.1%, commodities 4.5%, IG bonds 2.4%, T-bills 1.8% (Charts4-5).

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.