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Stock market to bond market: ‘La-la-la I can’t hear you’

COMMENT: Bond markets are screaming that the world economy is slowing, and shareholders aren’t listening

Stock market to bond market: ‘La-la-la I can’t hear you’
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After Lehman Brothers fell over in September 2008, equities slumped, then rallied back to their previous levels within a week. Brexit isn’t Lehman, but the stock market is behaving similarly.

The S&P 500 remains a little lower than it was immediately prior to the British vote to leave the European Union, but it is already back above where it stood the day before that.

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