RE: Kitco .US house sales drop 2%28 Sep 2022 20:38
Steve the majority of large pension funds are now majority in bonds, of course private pensions may well be all shares, but that is not what the bank is worried about but these huge funds highly exposed to the very derivatives that were designed by the bankers to protect them. The media is quite right both on this and the scary rise in mortgage rates - I got mine at 0.94% from hsbc less than a year ago. The same is now around 3.7% and likely to go over 4% this week. That will weigh heavy on borrowers who are already suffering from inflation, particularly in energy, and likely lead to sharply lower property prices. Don’t castigate the messenger.