Tech Wreck 2.0 resumes

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It began in mid-February this year as markets woke with a start to an imminent burst of US inflation. That awakening triggered a back-up in bond yields and the rest follows automatically. Equities were forced to reprice on factors that weighed against growth stocks with long-duration returns in favour of more reliable short-term duration value-stock returns.

We saw a reprieve in this trade in April as the bond back-up eased:

But last night Granny Yellen let the cat out of the bag:

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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.