QQQ - Rates Are Rising And It's Not All Roses For Investors

• Interest rates are rising, particularly at the longer end of the yield curve.
• This steepening of the yield curve is beneficial to certain portions of the market, think commodities and financials, while detrimental to longer duration assets.
• Many yield-orientated assets, which have enjoyed a tremendous tailwind the past decade with lower long-term interest rates, are going to a face a tremendous headwind with higher long-term interest rates.
• REITs are particularly vulnerable, particularly the triple net lease REITs, which are relatively highly correlated to movements in 10-year Treasury Yields.
• Technology stocks are the markets longest duration assets, and the largest capitalization technology equities are particularly vulnerable to higher long-term interest rates.

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