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WHY US BONDS COULD FALL DESPITE LOOMING FED CUTS
Conventional wisdom suggests that with the Federal Reserve set to cut interest rates this month, U.S. Treasuries are also poised for a big rally, meaning lower yields. But according to Jay Kaeppel, senior research analyst, at research firm SentimenTrader, investors should hold fire before jumping on the bonds bandwagon.
So far this year, the benchmark 10-year yield US10YT=RR has fallen 11.6 basis points.
Kaeppel writes in a research note that there are plenty of reasons not to go with the trend, noting that "the big picture for interest rates is unfavorable." His technical charts project a generally rising rate environment until 2040.
He notes that yields tend to move in "very long-term waves" and identifies a 60-year cycle, with about 30 years of falling rates followed by another 30 years of rising rates. He points out that the latest rates cycle bottomed out in 2010 and currently we are in the midst of a rising rate environment. Within that cycle, however, are minor dips that are expected in a long-term trend.
"This cycle is by no means 'exact'," Kaeppel writes. "Interest rates did not bottom out until 2020, and there is no 'guarantee' that rates will rise until - nor top out in - 2040. Still, if this chart tells us anything, it is that interest rates may be more stubborn to sharp declines than most investors currently think."
Kaeppel also cites his very own JK Bond Cycle Thermometer and Bond Cycle Model, which he says are flashing bearish signs. These models, he adds, are based on long-term cycles in interest rate trends. The good news, he says, is that they have a solid track record in backtesting. But the bad news is that they are not very price-dependent and so if bond prices show a meaningful rising-price trend, these models can sometimes fail to keep track.
That said, Kaeppel points out that both indicators are flashing unfavorable signs for bonds. His models have a win rate of 31% a year later, following previous zero readings. While that does not guarantee that bond prices will fall in the next six to twelve months, they do provide an objective warning sign, he says.
"With the caveat that these models could be proven wrong at any given time, they stand objectively against the current bullish crescendo for the inevitability of higher bond prices," Kaeppel writes.
(Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss)
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