That’s just what happened last year. Only then, it was both a dollar and yen carry trade that led to a rise in Aussie assets. Once the credit crisis set in, the yen carry got dropped and investors fled risk assets and piled right back into the greenback and U.S. Treasuries.
October 29th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 9 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "U.S. government bonds"
The Profits Depression
And after we consider the impact of the credit boom on S&P 500 earnings we’d say that corporate earnings are never going to be the same again. They may revert to the mean. But it will not be nearly as high as it was at the highs of the credit boom. It’s undeniable that the expansion of the credit bubble and the advent of securitisation and derivatives led to…
July 28th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 13 comments | Continued
