Burying the "Fed model"
The link between bond yields and equity valuations got broken long ago
By Buttonwood
IF YOU invested in equities in the 1990s, you were bound to hear, sooner or later, about the "Fed model". This, I should hasten to add, was not the official position of the Federal Reserve but the name given to a relationship found by three economists between Treasury bond yields and stockmarket valuations. Lower bond yields lead to higher price-earnings ratios or, if you invert the latter, lower earnings yields. Those who thought that equities were ridiculously overvalued in the late 1990s were told that they "just didn't get it".
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