Bondcano a bust as bank hikes kill term premium

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What happened to the so-called “Bondcano”, the notion that Aussie bond yields were going to explode, laying waste to every thing their path.

It’s was always fanciful in our view so we’ve been long the long end of Aussie bonds all year. The Bondcano is looking a complete bust this afternoon as the bid in Aussie bonds intensifies on bank mortgage rate hikes:

That’s put a plug in the ‘cano and a Godzilla sized steamroller is flattening the entire mountain with the term premium disappearing fast:

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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.