| It is that season again when commentators review the year’s developments and what they imply for next year. A big surprise is the extent to which record equity prices have diverged from declining commodity prices and unusually low yields on government bonds. This historically unusual divergence can no longer be explained by big macro factors, and the bespoke explanations will be harder to sustain the greater the divergence as we enter 2015.
Had 2014 closed this past weekend, investors in US equity markets would have earned 12 per cent (as measured by the S&P 500). Meanwhile, commodity investors would have lost 9 per cent (as measured by the Thomson Reuters Commodity Index) at a time when the yield on the 30-year US Treasury bond has fallen 100 basis points to 2.89 per cent...............................................Full Article: Source
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