Global Bonds and FTSE Index

: The FTSE 100 index is down by 6 per cent over the past two months, and global bonds have apparently had their worst quarter for 25 years, according to The Independent. True, these declines are from record levels and you could see this as a healthy consolidation. But it hasn’t been. But it is hard not to detect a whiff of fear. It has not helped, but suggestions that shares might fall by another 10 per cent were Greece to leave the euro seem over the top. So what up Let get rid first of the lazy explanation: that the markets have been unsettled by the events in Greece. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.