What Bond Traders Are Most Worried About Right Now

The latest monthly survey of credit investors from Bank of America, released overnight, shows the same familiar paradox we have seen ever since the start of the year: most survey respondents are allegedly scared worried about geopolitics and a concerned that the market is a bubble, and yet at the same time, most are allocating even more assets into what may be the biggest and riskiest credit bubble of them all: junk debt.
As BofA’s Hans Mikkelsen writes, while high grade investors reduced their positioning somewhat in June “although remaining significantly overweight”, high yield investors in contrast shifted from a small underweight to a small overweight.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jul 18, 2017.