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Soaring inflation creates headwind for long bonds

By Prieur du Plessis, on April 17th, 2008 posted in: Bonds, Investment, Markets, Money

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US long bonds are at an important point of resolve as investors seem to have started focusing more strongly on the inflation outlook rather than on economic growth considerations. Tread carefully as bonds could be topping out. [...]

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