Markets Without Guardrails

Posted by Frederick Sheehan via The Daily Reckoning

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Two significant changes are pushing markets towards a shakeout.

First, the bond markets are showing strains. For instance, both investment-grade and junk-rated companies are finding it more difficult to issue bonds. To put this in today’s context, the momentum money that has pushed asset prices up since the spring of 2009 assumes, or believes, that governments will do whatever is necessary to sustain the upward march. Now there are doubts.

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