Hedge Fund Manager Says Sell-off in US Treasury Bonds a Threat to 'High-Flying Assets' Like BTC
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Hedge Fund Manager Says Sell-off in US Treasury Bonds a Threat to 'High-Flying Assets' Like BTC

THELOGICALINDIAN - Hedge armamentarium administrator Bob Prince has warned that the contempo selloff in the US government band bazaar could advance and this could abuse highflying assets like cryptocurrencies and bare cheque companies Prince who is the coCIO at Bridgewater Associates links this looming abatement in the 21 abundance Treasury bazaar to the convalescent abridgement as able-bodied as growing aggrandizement pressurizes

Hedge Fund Manager Says Sell-off in US Govt Bonds a Threat to 'High-Flying Assets' Like BTC

These two factors according to Prince could “push the Federal Reserve to accede addled aback its bang measures.” Still, as one report explains, the Federal Reserve policymakers are “brushing off the Treasury sell-off as a advantageous acknowledgment to the beginning U.S. bread-and-butter recovery.”

However, Prince asserts that this “surge in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin is a appearance of that ambiance created by the apart budgetary action of the US axial coffer and bang provided by the U.S. Congress.”

Meanwhile, the address says U.S. aggrandizement expectations accept best up this year, hitting the amount of government bonds and pumping up their yields. This in about-face has already “hit fast-growing technology companies such as Netflix, Amazon, and Tesla back their animated valuations accept been underpinned by low rates.”

Hedge Fund Manager Says Sell-off in US Govt Bonds a Threat to 'High-Flying Assets' Like BTC

In the meantime, the aforementioned address additionally explains that adopted investors, one of the better buyers of Treasuries afterwards the Fed, accept already apparent beneath appetence for U.S. absolute debt as their losses accept accumulated up.

The crop on the 10-year Treasury afresh climbed aloft 1.6 percent from 0.9 percent at the end of aftermost year. This according to Ice Data Services, “has resulted in the affliction division for Treasury investors in added than four years.”

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