The Great Flood

As the increasingly dramatic images continue to pour in (no pun intended) from Texas, one has to wonder if maybe God has decided to punish the U.S., Old Testament-style – although I can’t imagine why…

It was a largely directionless day for U.S. stocks as everyone is kind of frozen in time amid the storm cleanup and ahead of a critical deluge of econ later this week – the Nasdaq managed a half-decent session.

Mixed signals from 2Y and 5Y auctions didn’t end up mattering as Treasury futures sat near session highs by 3. The dollar is a lost cause:

YieldsDollar

Gold surged, and closed above $1,300 for the first time since the election:

Gold

It was a disaster for Sprouts from the word “go” today as Amazon followed through on promises to cut prices at Whole Foods. Kroger knee-jerked lower but managed to recover:

SproutsKroger

And it’s starting to show in bond prices. As Bloomberg notes, “the yield on a Bank of America Merrill Lynch Index of U.S. grocery companies jumped 11 basis points last week to the highest in more than a month”:

BondsFood

Bonds of Apollo-backed Fresh Market fell again, hitting (another) record low 76.75 cents:

TFM

Insurers were hit on Harvey worries while RV stocks were bid on expected demand from the relief effort:

RVsInsurers

Gasoline soared for obvious reasons, hitting a 2-year high early on before coming off a bit…

Gasoline

… while crude fell:

Crude

“There’s a big drop-off suddenly in crude oil demand,” John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital, said Monday. “Gasoline demand in the balance of the country is still elevated, so we could see a real impact on gasoline inventories if these refineries are unable to get restaffed quickly.”

The euro is still the story in FX land. It’s now just a matter of: “is there a reason to not be bullish today?” The answer on Monday was “no,” and so… 1.20 here we fucking come (Yellen, Draghi Jackson Hole speeches in yellow)…

EURUSD

As far as what this is likely to mean for European equities – unless “someone” steps in, you really only need one chart:

SotcksEuro

The offshore yuan is riding a 9-day winning streak and hit a 14-month high against the beleaguered dollar:

Yuan

Oh, and finally, it was a rough day for the peso…

Peso

You can blame that last one on the guy you met at the truck stop diner…

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3 thoughts on “The Great Flood

  1. Why the hell is he wearing that stupid hat? That worthless bastard said he was coming to Houston Tuesday and none of us were happy about that! Stay the hell away from us. I guess he decided to change the plan to Corpus Christie as now we hear he and the little woman are going there. With luck he will see enough water and splash his face in enough cameras and then get the hell outta Texas, sparing us, we pray.

    Remember when he made a visit to help on the ground in Baton Rouge? Here is a reminder!
    https://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-donald-trump-spend-exactly-49-seconds-helping-out-louisiana-flood-victims/

    – Murphy

    p.s. Sprouts was not gonna make it here, regardless of Whole Foods/Amazon.

  2. Another P.S. and then there was this story … I bet if you check to see if he followed thru on that “donation” the answer would be Hell No – he never does, it’s all talk! and a truck load of supplies — nope, did not do that for sure. He unloaded a few cans of play doh and left. He’s a lying phony pig. Ya’ll know that’s true! And check the date! and see that SS Agent in the sunglasses and plaid shirt – scary looking dude.

    http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_03f311a2-6a12-11e6-9d9f-67a25618fb80.html

    – Murphy

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