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Bonds because of inverse correlation with the stock market. Or cash.

• yasp 8y ago
  Incidentally, if there is a crash, how is the Fed going to respond, since interest rates are practically as low as they can go? Will we see negative interest rates and asset purchases of equities and perhaps even real estate?
  • maxerickson 8y ago
    Rates are up a bit from the bottom: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS I guess they still have some trillions of various paper though. Like: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MBS10Y https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MBS10Y or https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREAST https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREAST
  • astura 8y ago
    Rates have been rising for the last two years.
  • skh 8y ago
    The Fed has been raising rates and is expected to raise rates in each of the next two quarters. They hope they can raise rates high enough, fast enough to give them leverage for when there is a crash. Of course they don’t want to raise rates too fast else the rate raising will be the cause of the next crash.
• mdorazio 8y ago
  It's more accurate to say that bonds are uncorrelated with the stock market. You can verify this yourself by plotting a broad bond ETF like BND against the S&P 500 or DJIA. You won't get a magic bump in bonds when the market goes into a recession, you just won't lose a bunch of money, either.