Oct
08

If You Thought China’s Equity Bubble Was Scary, Check Out Bonds

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  • Debt prices surge as PBOC eases and funds shift from stocks
  • China’s boom is at odds with world as CDS show rising risks

As a rout in Chinese stocks this year erased $5 trillion of value, investors fled for safety in the nation’s red-hot corporate bond market. They may have just moved from one bubble to another.

So says Commerzbank AG, which puts the chance of a crash by year-end at 20 percent, up from almost zero in June. Industrial Securities Co. and Huachuang Securities Co. are warning of an unsustainable rally after bond prices climbed to six-year highs andissuance jumped to a record. The boom contrasts with caution elsewhere. A selloff in global corporate notes has pushed yields to a 21-month high, and credit-derivatives traders are demanding near the most in two years to insure against losses on Chinese government securities…

If You Thought China’s Equity Bubble Was Scary, Check Out Bonds

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