Aitken sees big bond bear

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From the usually pretty good James Aitken via the AFR:

The rout in the bond market that was set in motion well before November 8, Aitken says, has further to go; as does the rotation out of bonds, and bond-like stocks, into stocks.

…If rates continue to rise, the so-called “expensive defensive” stocks are set for further pain, as too are certain tech stocks that had been propelled higher by heroic assumptions of persistently low discount rates.

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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.