Faber Seeing Recession Clashes with Yellen, Likes Treasuries

Marc Faber recommends Treasuries and says the U.S. is at the start of an economic recession, clashing with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s view that things are improving.

“Ten-year U.S. Treasuries are quite attractive because of my outlook for a weakening economy,” Faber, the publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, said in an interview with Bloomberg on Monday. “I believe that we’re already entering a recession in the United States” and U.S. stocks will fall in 2016, he said.

Yellen raised interest rates this month for the first time in almost a decade and said Americans should take the decision as a sign of confidence in the U.S. economy. Analysts differ over whether the Fed’s decision to increase its benchmark came at the right time because the inflation rate is stuck near zero even as gross domestic product expands.

The benchmark U.S. 10-year note yield rose 2 basis points, or 0.02 percentage point, to 2.25 percent as of 8:31 a.m. in New York, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The price of the 2.25 percent security due in November 2025 fell 6/32, or $1.88 per $1,000 face amount, to 99 31/32. Treasuries have returned 1.1 percent in 2015, down from 6.2 percent last year, based on Bloomberg World Bond Indexes.

Bloomberg

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