Oh, analysts attempted to distract investors from their focus on the Federal Reserve by touting the forthcoming earnings season and how strong it was going to be.
As a consequence, markets around the world that have had yields on government securities in negative territory are finding that these yields are now rising toward zero and/or positive yields.
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