‘Post-Budget, it’s time to worry about a surge in inflation’

Traditionally seen as a hedge against inflation, but its price has fallen as worries over interest rate rises have mounted. A hard investment to time. • The stock market winners of last year are falling, but shares in “value” companies that were hit hard in 2020 are doing well. It would take a bigger inflation shock to derail the market as a whole. • Yields on government bonds, which move in the opposite direction to prices, have spiked as investors fear inflation will eat into the value of the fixed coupons they pay. But profiting from this directly can be difficult.

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