(Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett reiterated his aversion of long-term U.S. debt, joining the choir of prominent investors warning that buyers will get hurt when interest rates rise.
"If I had an easy way, and a non-risk way, of shorting a whole lot of 20- or 30-year bonds, I'd do it," Buffett said Monday on CNBC. "But that's not my game, and it can't be done in the kind of quantity that would make sense for us. But I think that bonds are very overvalued, I'll put it that way."
The chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. was joined by fellow billionaire investor Bill Gross, who said Monday that the bull market "supercycle" for stocks and bonds is approaching its end, as the unconventional monetary policies that have kept it alive since the financial crisis are running out. The calls for an end to the bond rally come amid concern that gains triggered by unprecedented European Central Bank bond purchases were overdone.
The 30-year bond yield rose five basis points, or 0.05 percentage point, to 2.88 percent at 3:35 p.m. New York time. The price of the 2.5 percent security maturing in February 2045 fell to 92 16/32, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The yield reached the highest level since Dec. 24.
