taper tantrum

Optimists thought the market had got over its "taper tantrum."

And of course, the big story, the next big piece of news, one would think, is the taper tantrum.

Any unwinding of paper deals tied to storage plays was probably already well underway by the time the taper tantrum hit.

Bonds taper tantrum turns to "hike huff"

There is no sign yet that the US modest recovery is being derailed by the markets" taper tantrum.

Mike van Dulken at Accendo Markets calls today's activity a "taper tantrum":

After last week's QE3 taper tantrum and fall from near all-time highs, the shortened week started on a calmer note with what looked like a rebound.

That taper tantrum was given an extra push by further confirmation from China, 9000km in the other direction, that its manufacturing sector appears to be slowing down.

Stocks are struggling for traction and Treasury yields are at two-year highs as the fallout from the market's "taper tantrum" rumbles on.

The bonds sell-off that began when the Federal Reserve signalled it would soon wind down its emergency asset-buying has become known in markets as the "taper tantrum."

US stocks are on course to trade within touching distance of May's record high as optimism builds over the corporate earnings season and the market's recent "taper tantrum" wanes.

Nonetheless, some money managers and economists can spy some deeply worrying storm clouds on the distant horizon, which could make this summer's "taper tantrum" seem like a spring breeze.

After the sharp fall in bond prices of 2013 ("taper tantrum"), investors continued to question the impact of rising rates on risk parity portfolios or other more concentrated equity portfolios.

Recent testimony by Federal Reserve Bank chairman Chair Bernanke about the possibility of the the central bank's tapering its bond purchases set off a "taper tantrum" in the bond market.

Martin Wolf credits him with coming up with the explanation for the huge global overreaction (called the "taper tantrum") to Bernanke's hint that he might taper quantitative easing in May 2013.

So far the leveraged loan market has weathered every stumbling block thrown at it this year - from this month's political impasse to the "taper tantrum" that shook up most other debt markets in June.

Taper Tantrum: The Times's David Gillen on market gyrations as Wall Street and world economies try to guess when the Federal Reserve will slow, or taper, its extraordinary measures to bolster the economy.

What seems to have escaped most of the participants in this taper tantrum is that Dr Bernanke was actually delivering some very good news, in that he is convinced that the US economy is now firmly on a path to improvement.

The Brent-WTI move did coincide with the so-called "taper tantrum," the brief jitters over interest rates that roiled financial markets after the U.S. Federal Reserve started to hint that it would start to reduce its monetary stimulus sooner than later.

This is because there are now at least seven sources of global tail risk, as opposed to the single factors - the eurozone crisis, the Federal Reserve "taper tantrum," a possible Greek exit from the eurozone, and a hard economic landing in China - that have fuelled volatility in recent years.

During the 2013 "taper tantrum", when the Fed announced that it would be reducing the pace of its asset purchases, traders yanked money out of emerging market economies in order to plough it back into (anticipated) higher-yielding US assets.

"Fundamentals have improved in several large emerging market economis since the taper tantrum" say analysts from Bank of America.

The markets went berserk: "taper tantrum!"