A close look at sectors can tell us where we are in the economic cycle. The chart below from Chris Vermeulen via LinkedIn shows that the dominant sectors currently are utilities and precious metals which occur typically at the very end of business cycles as we enter a major bearish phase:
The Incredible 13%-Yielding Junk Bond Fund That’s Backed By The Fed
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Those dark days did do one critical thing for the high-yield corporate-bond
market: made these so-called "junk bonds" too big to fail.
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