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Stock and bonds head in different directions

by Interactive Brokers Traders Insight|Published February 18, 2020

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers’ chief strategist, explains how the stock market and the bond market are telling two different stories.

Money seems to be flowing into both markets but for opposite reasons.

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Interactive Brokers Traders’ Insight (IBTI) is a venue for market-related articles and commentary covering an array of asset classes and topics. All articles published on Traders’ Insight are simultaneously published directly to our trading platform (TWS).
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