Not much to add here. Market is speaking with a wholesale repricing of financial assets. Stocks, bonds, there is nowhere to hide.
Muni's getting absolutely pulverized.
I am not selling anything here and just looking to buy opportunistically.
S&P about 6.4% off of it's highs. I think it is overdone, but it is difficult to stand in front of this train heading downhill. That said, there are deals if you are willing to provide liquidity. I bought a little JPS which is now at about a 12% discount.
The yield curve is steepening with the long-term TIPS trading now at 1.4%+ real yield. I would not be surprised to see this go even higher as I believe the negative real yields are an anomaly. At 2% I believe these to be screaming buys, so even at this level I like them.
10 year TIPS are at about 0.5% real yield which is still very low.
All that said, I think bonds are good value here as growth will be hard to come by. China is not giving us any warm fuzzy feelings. In a low growth world, bonds will do well.
Finally, if anyone is keeping score with the AUD (australian dollar) there has been a huge move our way down to 92 area and I would not be a pig about it and cover the short around here. Some believe this can keep going below 80 and maybe it would be a good hedge against a world value destruction scenario as AUD is heavily dependent on China.
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