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Kyle Bass Notes Japan’s Debt Crisis Crash

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Mark Melin
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The much anticipated slip in the Japanese economy hedge fund manager Kyle Bass had been expecting may be here. 

Kyle Bass Notes Japan's Debt Crisis Crash

As stocks dive, “flight to quality” didn’t benefit Japanese bonds

In a CNBC interview this morning, Hayman Capital fund manager Kyle Bass noted Friday’s swan dive in the Japanese Nikkei did not produce a corresponding flight to quality in the Japanese bond market, as one might expect.  Japanese bonds “are acting pretty terrible in light of their equity market,” Bass said in the interview.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.