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Improving market functioning some good news amid the gloom

Although both equities and safe bond yields have fallen back today after President Trump warned that the coronavirus pandemic will get worse over coming weeks, the fact that bonds have rallied in such circumstances rather than weakened indicates that the Fed’s efforts to shore up market functioning are starting to work.

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