More bond bloodbath to come

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Via Damien Boey at Credit Suisse:

Overnight, ECB President Draghi launched his “bazooka” stimulus option – but markets experienced some highly counter-intuitive moves. Specifically, bond yields rose in response to the resumption of ECB quantitative easing, while the EUR/USD strengthened on ECB rate cuts. Equities responded favourably to these developments, although interestingly, momentum and bond proxy stocks outperformed value stocks, slightly unwinding some of the seismic moves we have seen from the past week.

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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.