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Global liquidity is being supported by benign funding conditions (low volatility), but underlying liquidity creation remains weak, with SMB growth still negative. Investor risk appetite remains strong, increasingly favouring select developed markets and commodity-related emerging markets
We view liquidity as circulating through two distinct channels: the financial economy and the real economy. We often express this idea by saying that all money that is anywhere must be somewhere ; it cannot occupy two places simultaneously. In broad terms, liquidity in the financial sector supports bond prices and risk assets, while liquidity in the real economy fuels commodity markets, business activity and corporate profits. When liquidity shifts between these two circuits, equity P/Es may fall as bond yields rise, but stronger earnings can offset that pressure to a greater or lesser…
“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’” — Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-Glass Markets are being asked to accept three widely held assumptions: that rising US bond yields reflect a loss of confidence in US assets, that higher rates are inherently bearish , and that recent US Treasury and Federal Reserve interventions amount to…
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