Bond Market Crash: Is Disaster Ahead for the ‘Safe’ Part of Your Portfolio?

Date: Feb 06 2013

Filed under: Bonds, Savings Bonds, Investing

Bond market crashJust when you’ve finally gotten over the stock market crash from four years ago, there’s a new threat that could potentially hit your portfolio. Even worse, it’s in an area that many people think of as being safer than stocks: the bond market.

Goldman Sachs (GS) is the latest big Wall Street institution to sound the alarm about a potential bond market crash. Although bond-market dynamics are sophisticated and complex, the argument against bonds boils down to these simple points:

  • Interest…

Bond Market Crash: Is Disaster Ahead for the ‘Safe’ Part of Your Portfolio? originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2013-02-06T06:00:00Z.

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