Bonds experienced their first losing year since 1999 according to BAML research.
Stocks rose almost 30% and the Fed's balance sheet grew almost $1.1 trillion.
Stock prices rose 29% for the year.
The federal deficit shrank but total U.S. debt rose to over $18 trillion.
2014 is starting off with market prices at very different places than where they began 2013.
The 30-year fixed mortgage rate has risen from 3.35% to 4.48%. (113 basis point increase)
The 10-year Treasury yield is up from 1.76% to 3.02%. (126 basis point increase)
The 5-year Treasury yield is up from 0.74% to 1.74%.
The 2-year yield is up from 0.26% to 0.38%.
The Census Bureau projected yesterday that the U.S. population will have grown to 317,287,938 as of January 1. That reflects a 0.7% YoY growth rate in 2013, the slowest rate of growth since the Great Depression according to research from the Brookings Institute.
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