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Three pressures are now in focus after HSBC issued a warning that rising corporate taxes, renewed private-sector debt, and shifting dynamics between stocks and bonds could potentially test global market resilience.
The bank stopped short of calling a break, but the framing puts the burden of proof on anyone positioned for the current backdrop to hold.
The factors HSBC named interact badly when they arrive together rather than in sequence. Rising corporate taxes eat into after-tax earnings and compress the multiples equity markets assign to forward cash flows.
Renewed private-sector debt growth historically precedes credit-cycle tightening: borrowers reach capacity before lenders formally reprice risk, and the lag is where fragility builds.
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