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Stock and bond market volatility has picked up the past few weeks as the yield on the ten-year bond increased from 4.6% to 5.14%, a big increase in what has been a mundane long-end of the curve for quite some time.

Pretty much following the bursting of the tech-telecom bubble and 9/11, the bond market has been stuck in a very tight trading range. Investors developed a Pavlovian response running into bonds on any bad financial news or events surrounding oil or terrorism. However, it appears that this might be about to change. The 10-year bond is oversold and due for a considerable rally, but after a bond market rally, look for a behavioral shift to equities to begin.

The returns for equities will be too promising to pass up and greed will win out over fear. Do not read too much into the recent selloff in bonds. Too much of the asset-allocation pie was directed into bonds, it is time for it to shift back into equities.

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