{"id":9319,"date":"2016-01-07T15:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=9319"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:30:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:30:44","slug":"strong-bonds-1212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=9319","title":{"rendered":"Strong Bonds (12\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Money often rotates between the stock market and bond market \u2013 the safety of bonds vs. the risk and upside potential of stocks. <!--more-->Generally speaking, the two have been loosely inversely correlated. When bonds have sold off, stocks have done well. When bonds have rallied, the market has sometimes rallied and sometimes struggled.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Bonds, via TLT, traded in a range during 2015, much like the overall market. If bonds break out, and there\u2019s no guarantee they will, the stock market could be under even pressure than it already is. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Here\u2019s a chart showing TLT (top) and SPX (bottom). Yellow highlights times bonds were weak; green bonds were strong. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/spxtlt010716.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Agree\/Disagree? Comment below. And click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leavittbrothers.com\/email-subscribe.cfm\">here<\/a> to join our email list to get reports just like this sent directly to you.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/space.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"1\" \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leavittbrothers.com\/redirect.cfm?affID=5230\"><img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/banners\/lb-468x60-1.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money often rotates between the stock market and bond market \u2013 the safety of bonds vs. the risk and upside potential of stocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}