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Bond yields—not oil—are the critical barometer for market stability during geopolitical shocks. While mainstream narratives fixate on crude price spikes and inflationary pressure, history demonstrates that systemic selloffs accelerate only after liquidity evaporates, a process signaled first by sovereign debt and funding markets.
The conventional playbook assumes a straight line from rising oil to persistent inflation, then hawkish central banks and tighter financial conditions. Yet this framework frequently misleads participants into premature hedging or panic selling based on energy headlines rather than funding realities. Markets do not typically collapse simply because oil rallies; they fracture when funding conditions tighten and leveraged positions unwind. In the current macro environment, that liquidity risk is concentrated in a structural trade that rarely makes headlines: the Yen Carry Trade.
Is the Yen Carry Trade already under pressure, or is the real liquidity shock still ahead?
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