Some “bondcano”

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I didn’t bother commenting much on last week’s “bondcano” debate in the MSM, from The Australian:

Australian stocks trading at a premium are looking vulnerable as the bond market “erupts” from recent lows, according to Credit Suisse, which names Transurban, Sydney Airport, Healthscope and Crown as among those on shaky ground.

Equity strategist Hasan Tevfik used the term “bondcano” to describe the volcano-like landscape of the Australian marketplace and flagged a tipping point where forces pushing bond yields lower for as long as 20 years have begun to reverse.

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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.