Volatility is back! The VIX jumped 23% higher while stocks and bonds sold-off through out Friday’s trading session. The S&P 500, global stocks and emerging markets tumbled at least -2%, the biggest drop since the Brexit on June 24th. The US dollar rallied as Federal Reserve member Eric Rosengren warned waiting too long to raise rates threatened to overheat the economy. The odds for a rate hike this year jumped to 60%. Strong concerted correlations between the stocks and bonds are not historically common but do occur. The last time the S&P 500 and Treasury bonds posted similar declines was on June 20, 2013, the start of the “taper tantrum”, when Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said the Fed may start reducing bond purchases, which had been credited to drive gains in the global markets. Recent popular sectors such as defensive stocks led the sell-off. Sectors known for high dividend paying stocks such as utilities and phone stocks dropped -3.4%. Real estate investment trusts lost -3.9%. The financial sector, which should benefit from higher rates dropped the least, down -1.9%. In the week ahead, the focus will remain on the Fed, central banks and interest rates. European Central Bank President Draghi will speak on Wednesday while the Swiss National Bank and the Bank of England will announce monetary policy on Thursday.
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