01-05-2025
Liberated But Not Yet Free
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It looks as though the markets have finally achieved liberation from April 2's Liberation Day. Measures of risk appetite (the Bloomberg Financial Conditions index) and perceived risk in the credit market (proxied by the option-adjusted spread on Bloomberg's US high-yield index) are both almost back where they were before President Donald Trump began his presentation in the rose garden:
