Oil and equities don’t mix

Tuesday, 19 March 2024

The Market Ear with the latest on equities.

4.35% matters

Morgan Stanley’s Wilson: “While almost all of the equity market rally late last year was attributable to lower rates, stocks are now trying to move past their dependence on central bank policy. This week’s Fed and BOJ meetings will be important tests to see if that trend holds. We view 4.35% on the 10-year US Treasury yield as an important technical level to watch for signs that rate sensitivity may increase for equities”.

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About the author

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.