The renewed decline in yields and cash rates across global markets in recent weeks leaves investors in a conundrum.
The safest assets, like cash and government bonds, now guarantee real (or inflation adjusted) wealth destruction if held to maturity. Non-dollar bonds in developed markets even have a negative nominal yield, on average.
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