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After a few abject quiz-difficulty failures from yours truly, it seems that last week’s instalment erred towards the easy setting. It probably helped that there was a fairly obvious theme to all of the charts.
Which were . . .
The 10-year US Treasury yield in 1994, the infamous “bond massacre” that led James Carville to quip about wanting to come back as the bond market so that he could “intimidate everyone”.
30-year UK gilts around the time of the LDI blow-up. Unsurprisingly, a lot of UK readers got this one.
And finally . . .
The closest thing to a curveball in this quiz, this shows the 10-year Irish sovereign bond yield (we also accepted the eight or nine-year yield because of data shenanigans. Ireland didn’t issue 10-yrs regularly). That was a pretty pricey guarantee.
Thankfully, quite a few people were ever-so-slightly tripped up by the different maturities used. Otherwise the list of correct guesses would have been stupidly long. But the following still managed to nail it: Henry Yates, Anthony Russo, Theo Clarke, Connor Elliott, Anthony Cheng, James Klikis, Will Moss, Henri de Laromiguière, Andrew Simmons, Ethan Levine, Sean Lightbrown, David Lynch, Connor Murtagh, Javier Martinez Pérez, Rory Boath, Sam Lee, Olly Wisking, Ziyodulla Abdullaev, Thomas Ryan and Killian Fitzgerald.
This wasn’t quite the 39 people that once got one of Louis “Blackjack-Homer” Ashworth’s quizzes right, but it would have pipped him if more people had gotten the UK or US maturity right.
Aaaanyway, to the Wheel of Names . . .
Rory Boath becomes a two-time charts quiz winner, meaning he is both clever and lucky. What more could one wish for in life?
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