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Bond Investors Sound The All Clear

Jason Goepfert
2020-01-06
Spreads on high yield bonds are plunging, which stock investors take as an all-clear sign. Emerging market stocks are in a new bull market.

Bond investors feeling frisky

Even the rise of geopolitical tensions hasn’t dented bond investors’ appetite for risk, with the HYG fund barely closing lower on Friday. The spread on credit default swaps on high yield bonds has plunged over the past few weeks, hitting a new multi-year low in the meantime.

A lower spread means rising prices and confidence from bond investors. Stock investors often assume that bond investors are their smarter cousins, and are taking this as a clue that all is clear.

Generally, “all clear” indicators have an iffy record, especially when everyone assumes the same thing. When we look at similar instances, we see that stocks were mixed in the months ahead, with diverging impacts on funds like HYG, LQD, and TLT.


A new emerging market bull

Many domestic and overseas indexes have broken out to multi-year or all-time highs. The MSCI Emerging Markets index is well off its high, but just rose more than 20% off its low, triggering what some consider to be a new bull market. This ends the longest-ever streak of emerging markets being stuck within 20% of a multi-year low.

After starting other "new bull markets", emerging market stocks struggled. There was a correlation between short- and long-term returns, though, suggesting it would be a good sign if buyers continued to push ahead in the coming week(s).

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