Market Update – April 12, 2019
It’s been an uneventful week on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 trading flat through Thursday’s market close. On the fixed income side, the U.S. 10-Year Treasury is trading just below a 2.5% yield.
It was not too long ago that the markets were talking about rising yields and the competition bonds would be for stocks. It was not too long ago that the markets were talking about rising yields and the competition bonds would be for stocks. While yields were on the rise, the narrative was subjectively doubtfully on the outlook of investors taking on equity risk for only an incrementally higher expected return.