Rising bond yield hurts equity market

Context

Over the past few days, a surge in bold yields has contributed to steep fall in equity markets.

What is bond yield?

• The yield of a bond is the effective rate of return that it earns. But the rate of return is not fixed — it changes with the price of the bond.

What do different types of bond yield curve signify?

• Yield inversion happens when the yield on a longer tenure bond becomes less than the yield for a shorter tenure bond.
• A yield inversion typically portends a recession.
• An inverted yield curve shows that investors expect the future growth to fall sharply; in other words, the demand for money would be much lower than what it is today and hence the yields are also lower.
• A steep yield curve  when there is a large spread in interest rates between shorter-term  bonds to longer-term bonds — often precedes a period of economic expansion, as investors bet that a central bank will be forced to raise rates in the future to tamp down higher inflation.
• In normal bond yield this positive slope reflects investor expectations for the economy to grow in the future and, importantly, for this growth to be associated with a greater expectation that inflation will rise in the future rather than fall.
• This expectation of higher inflation leads to expectations that the central bank will tighten monetary policy by raising short-term interest rates in the future to slow economic growth and dampen inflationary pressure
  

How rising bond yield affects market sentiment?

• Investors believe having better return in bond market rather than equity (stock market).
• So there money shifts it position by triggering a sale of shares and investing same money in bonds.