The charts that matter: the great bond bubble revisited

A slide in bond yields this week has driven the yield curve lower. John Stepek looks at how this has affected the charts that matter most to the global economy.

Welcome back. Big news this week I've mentioned a couple of times in the last week or so that you should keep 22 November free this year. That's because Merryn and I want to see you at the MoneyWeek Wealth Summit that day.

We're nailing down the line-up even as I speak. It's all very hush hush for now, but I can tell you that we'll be addressing all of the big political issues of the day (I suspect that the Brexit debate despite the Halloween "deadline" and the threat of a Corbyn government will still loom large), as well as highlighting the biggest, most potentially profitable long-term investment trends out there.

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John Stepek

John Stepek is a senior reporter at Bloomberg News and a former editor of MoneyWeek magazine. He graduated from Strathclyde University with a degree in psychology in 1996 and has always been fascinated by the gap between the way the market works in theory and the way it works in practice, and by how our deep-rooted instincts work against our best interests as investors.

He started out in journalism by writing articles about the specific business challenges facing family firms. In 2003, he took a job on the finance desk of Teletext, where he spent two years covering the markets and breaking financial news.

His work has been published in Families in Business, Shares magazine, Spear's Magazine, The Sunday Times, and The Spectator among others. He has also appeared as an expert commentator on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, BBC Radio Scotland, Newsnight, Daily Politics and Bloomberg. His first book, on contrarian investing, The Sceptical Investor, was released in March 2019. You can follow John on Twitter at @john_stepek.