www.marketwatch.com/story/...ells-trouble-for-stock-market-2016-11-14
Trump-induced carnage in Treasurys spells trouble for stock market
Stocks have stormed to record levels on the back of hope that President-elect Donald Trump can make not just America great again, but the stock market as well. But a jarring selloff in bonds is a bad sign for Wall Street and could mean problems for equities, at least in the short term, strategists warn.
“I’m very confident that this rise in rates is very dangerous in equities as a whole, not just in some sectors,” Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst for The Lindsey Group, told MarketWatch on Monday.
Indeed, bond prices have collapsed in recent days, sending bond yields for the 10-year Treasury note shooting some 40 basis points higher since Trump gobsmacked investors by defeating Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Those moves have come as the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been registering records, finishing at another all-time closing high Monday and marking its sixth straight finish in positive territory.
So far, the bulk of the pain being felt in equities has been reserved to the so-called dividend payers. That is, those sectors that offer a yield in addition to giving investors the benefit of share-price gains. Those include the S&P 500 telecom, utilities and real estate sectors. But those areas of the market, which have drawn the heaviest bids over the past year from investors eager to find a proxy for ultralow yielding government bonds, are unraveling as bond yields tick higher. ...