Unfortunately moving house on Monday, so no time for the markets.
Things are certainly happening after the Bernanke speech. My long term portfolio is suffering, mainly due to the very sharp downwards movement of listed property. OK, they were star performers over many years, and I will continue holding. The correction is of course mainly due to the sharp increase in our bond yields across all maturities, and we all know the close correlation between bond yields and listed property yields.
The increase in yields should be telling us to watch out for a repo rate increase before the end of the year, barring political pressure to which I hope G. Marcus will not bow - otherwise we will really be in trouble exchange rate wise.
My Rand hedge stocks, BTI and SAB are also performing miserably considering the ROE of now over 15.10 to the pound sterling. They have both taken a beating in London each and every day for the past couple of days.
My portfolio is more or less back to where it was in mid March.