Re:Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
by drexlspivey on Friday May 13, 2022 @04:35PM
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The future cash flow of existing bonds is fixed and it does not increase. If you have a bond that pays a 2% annual coupon you will see it's value drop when interest rates increase. The reason is that you can now get a newly issued bond that pays a higher (say 3%) fixed coupon so your's is worth less.
Your bond's price will drop to say 90% of the notional amount while the new bond will trade at 100% so they will effectively have the same "yield" of 3%.
Re:Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
by JamesBarney on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @08:15PM
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The future cash flow of any given bond stays the same. But from an asset allocators point of view the cost of the future cash flow from a band decreased, making it a more attractive investment.
Re:Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
by Firmwarrior on Friday May 13, 2022 @08:03PM
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Bond trading is super complicated and unintuitive the way it's normally described
You're right though IMO, but people should be careful about trading on that knowledge until they're up to speed on how bond trading works
I don't understand why that would be. If the expected future cash flow of one asset increases (bonds), and remains the same for another (stocks) why would you allocate more money to stocks and away from bonds?