lunes, 8 de agosto de 2011

Carnicería en los Mercados y los Bonos del Tesoro tan Campantes

Creo que el título de este post refleja buena parte de los comentarios y análisis del día de hoy. Algunos ejemplos
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En Free Exchange de The Economist, por cierto una buena nota de lo que sucedió hoy, se dice:


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Within bond markets, anything resembling a safe haven saw rising prices and falling yields. Yields on British and German debt tumbled, while yields on American government debt plummeted, downgrade or no. The 5-year Treasury yields 1.08%. The 10-year yields 2.31%. That's the lowest level since January of 2009; the summer swoon that prompted QE2 never produced a yield that low
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En este otro post de The Capital Spectator...
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The stock market was crushed today, with the S&P 500 falling nearly 7%. The proximate cause of the mayhem: Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. government credit rating. But a funny thing happened on the path to demoting Treasuries: prices of these tarnished securities soared.

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