DoubleLine’s Gundlach sees U.S. 10-year Treasury yield rising, weighing on stocks

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FILE PHOTO - Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York
FILE PHOTO – Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

March 13, 2018

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jennifer Ablan

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jeffrey Gundlach, the chief executive of DoubleLine Capital and known on Wall Street as the “Bond King,” said on Tuesday the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury note will likely move higher and pressure riskier assets including equities and junk bonds.

Gundlach, on an investor webcast, said massive U.S. Treasury supply to fund the ballooning U.S. budget deficit this year along with “Quantitative Tightening”, or unwinding of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, will lift bond yields.

“What’s unusual is that the deficit is expanding even though we are late cycle,” in the economic recovery, said Gundlach, who oversaw over $118 billion in assets as of December 31. Gundlach projects the U.S. federal budget deficit to rise to over $1.2 trillion – $1.3 trillion in 2019.

Gundlach said the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rising above 3.0 percent would almost certainly hurt risk assets, such as equities and high-yield junk bonds.

More importantly, Gundlach says conviction is high that the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index return will be negative in 2018.

“My conviction on that is actually higher than my conviction right now on whether bond yields are going to break to the upside or downside,” Gundlach said.

Overall, he said, Bitcoin is a good precursor for stock market movements. “Bitcoin is part of the Rosetta Stone to understand what is happening with the social mood,” he said. “We went from an easy investing environment to a tough investing environment,” Gundlach added.

Regarding the U.S. dollar, Gundlach said DoubleLine is “neutral” on the greenback but “the next big move on the dollar is lower.”

(Reporting By Jennifer Ablan and Trevor Hunnicutt)

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