Ok the latest ICI data on US mutual fund has just been released and guess what ? moms and pops are still selling bonds like it is going out of fashion and buying equities like there is no tomorrow. Hence the red squares on my chart that shows the T-Stats of the inflow/outflow for each asset buckets over diverse time horizons.
…and yes those 10 year bond yields are still going higher and further incentivising the laggards to come out of their bond holding….
To the risk of repeating myself we all know that there is a massive overhang in bond holdings, so my contention is that we may have entered a spiral and that somewhere on the line we are going to see a repeat of 94…..a good old fashioned bond market crash….
Meanwhile as we gathered from the Fed minutes everyone is getting very cagey about mentioning when they will start tapering (or is it tampering…) ….looks like the street is about to dictate the Fed monetary policy by jettisoning those low yielding assets for something more sexy…..