{"id":32256,"date":"2019-11-09T17:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=32256"},"modified":"2019-11-09T17:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T17:43:16","slug":"the-bond-markets-red-alert-has-been-triggered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/the-bond-markets-red-alert-has-been-triggered\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond-market&#8217;s red alert has been triggered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today, for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis, the bond-market warning light suddenly flashed red. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-11-09\/this-red-alert-is-now-flashing-bright-on-the-bond-trader-s-radar\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>, the bond-market has been a stable green for years-until today. The last time the red alert was triggered, it was followed by the biggest bond sell-off since the financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Why does the bond-market alert matter to us outside the financial world?<\/p>\n<p>Well, let\u2019s not forget the financial crisis of 2008 hit the average person the hardest and none of us saw it coming.<\/p>\n<p>While this light is not signalling the start of another financial crisis, it is important to pay attention to warning signs and economic disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the bond-market is of particular interest as shoddy mortgage bonds were the root cause of the financial crash.<\/p>\n<p>Bond-market fluctuations pose a serious risk to the health of the London Stock Exchange and Canary Wharf banks. Which, in turn, is a risk to us Londoners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words: Monica Young<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Pixabay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis, the bond-market warning light suddenly flashed red. Bloomberg reports, the bond-market has been a stable green for years-until today. The last time the red alert&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":32265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,93,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-news","category-uknews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}