The rout in the US bond market since the elections there is a logical response to the prospect of a substantial fiscal expansion. Indeed, the results have prompted us to revise up our already-bearish forecasts for Treasury yields. Although we have also nudged up our projections for government bond yields in core Europe, we still don’t expect that they will rise as fast as in the US.
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