STOCK/BOND CORRELATION, EQUITY RISK PREMIUM, AND WHEN WILL BOND MARKET WEAKNESS BITE?

The 'tourist tries to discern if investors should worry about rising interest rates

I ask you to remember back to last summer. At the time, the Fed had raised rates 500 basis points in one of the quickest tightening cycles on record. However, the market had begun to anticipate that the economy was weakening, and even more importantly, that the Fed might finally pause their hiking campaign. It was a cat-and-mouse game trying to figure o…