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Fade Defensives? Two-Day Smackdown For Utility ETF Worst Since August

FYI: The market’s “defensive” stocks smacked on Thursday the bond-like stocks with high yields sold off with Treasury bonds.
Regards,
Ted
http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2016/04/21/fade-defensives-two-day-smackdown-for-utility-etf-worst-since-august/tab/print/

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http://www.sectorspdr.com/sectorspdr/tools/sector-tracker

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  • edited April 2016
    Diminished expectations for “hawkish” action seems to be coaxing traders into riskier assets and away from government bonds:

    I always worry that one of these days there will be an unexpected and nasty surprise coming out of a Fed meeting. Some of the rallies over the past two months+ in some of the riskier assets have been a thing of beauty. The much maligned junk bond market is less than 2.5% away from all time highs. Some of the bank loan funds have been on a steady march upward unlike anything I have seen before.

    http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=eifax
  • well, utilities were back today, outperforming many other sectors.
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