Government bond markets are continuing to sell off strongly this morning as investors absorb the extra $1trn of debt added to the US balance sheet by the extension of its tax cuts.
At a time when European countries are undertaking widespread austerity measures, US authorities extended the Bush-era tax cuts and continued a number of other stimulus measures. While equity mar...
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