
Chart Check (Super Awesome Cross-Asset Correlation Monitor Edition)
I've talked a ton about cross-asset correlations here and elsewhere over the past few months.
Indeed, the entire Trump reflation trade is based on negative stock/bond return correlations (i.e. a return to the post 2000 norm and a welcome break from the fear that dominated markets last September when quite a few observers feared the correlation might flip positive if the Fed did something stupid) and a strongly positive correlation between the dollar and stocks/rates.
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