When Interest Rates Rise, Which Assets Go Up and Which Go Down?
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:45 AM EST
In 2012 I wrote a number of articles that laid out the hypothesis that interest rates were headed considerably higher. On July 25 2012 US Treasury interest rates hit all-time lows. Since then interest rates have been marching upwards. This article will examine a variety of assets during periods of rising interest rates to see which assets go up and which assets go down. Bond yields put in a major peak in 1814. From 1814 to 1946 bond yields dropped in a 132-year super secular bond bull market. Within the context of this super secular bull there were ...