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Colossal Losses, Impact of Fed Rate Hike in the Market

One of the most popular bond indices, the Barclay’s U.S. Aggregate, has a market value of $17.9 trillion today. This compares to a market value of $8.3 trillion at the time of the last Fed rate hike on June 29, 2006. A look around the world is an eye opener; the Barclay’s Global Aggregate has a market value of $47.2 trillion versus $21.9 trillion on June 29, 2006.

Some of this is already priced in of course, but the quick and dirty calculation tells you that for the U.S. Agg, a 25bps hike has 2.53x the impact of a 2006 era move and for the Global Agg, the impact is around 2.36x a 2006 era move in terms of the value of immediately re-priced assets. This gives the adage ”interest rates up, bond prices down” profound new meaning.

Put another way, the amount of losses by global bond investors in percentage terms for a given hike in rates is around 2.5x as powerful as it was the last time the Fed hiked rates over nine years ago. So might 25bps act a bit more like 62.5bps? When will we find out?

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