With nearly 90% of companies reporting, earnings season was better than feared.
Category: Markets
One-Percenters Now Control As Much Wealth As Middle-, Upper-Middle Classes Combined
The benefits of this don’t accrue linearly, but rather exponentially.
‘2019 Has Been A Rollercoaster’: Duration ‘Round Trip’ Now Complete, Risk Is Trade Deal Falls Through
This may mean that the market has become too comfortable with the trade outlook.
Marko Kolanovic On ‘Groupthink’, Crowding And Why The Rotation Will Continue
“Two strategies that in theory should have little to do with each other” have been “nearly 100% correlated” recently.
China Responds: Phase One Deal Without Tariff Rollbacks Is Nonstarter
“What’s certain is that”…
Spare A Thought For Gold. This Was A Terrible Week
Yellow doorstops are in the dumpster amid an otherwise stellar 2019.
‘Yellow Brick Road’ Or ‘Rabbit Hole’? Bonds In ‘No Man’s Land’
So, which is it going to be?
3-Sigma Bond Rout Sees Yields Erase August Plunge, While Front-End Prices Out Trump’s Rate Cut Hopes
Rampant optimism is now reinforcing the Fed’s message that rate cuts are done.
Stocks Are Levitating, But Nomura’s McElligott Says Backtest Shows Potential For Pullback Amid Options ‘Extremes’
The longer we linger ‘up here’…
Split BOE Decision Wrong-Foots Markets, 2020 Rate Cut Now Seen Likely
“They’re closer to cutting rates than we think”.
Tariff Rollbacks Imminent, China Says. US Confirms
It would be the first time the Trump administration has removed duties since the beginning of the trade war.
Happy Times And ‘Manna From The Printing Press Heaven’
“The wealth effect on global plutonomists will be massive”.
‘A Weak Start To Q4’: JPMorgan Global PMI Prints Lowest Since February 2016, Employment Dives Into Contraction
“…the pace of job losses at manufacturers was the joint-fastest for over a decade”.
Armageddon Scenarios, Willful Ignorance And ‘Bond Risk Everywhere’
What could go wrong?
Reflation Narrative Gets Another Boost As ISM Non-Manufacturing Rebounds From Trump-Era Low
All told, the headline beat will likely be enough to bolster the rosy economic story.
As ‘Tantrum’ Risk Comes Calling, Nomura’s McElligott Flags CTA Bond Selling As Legacy Long Unwound
Trade optimism is running rampant and crowded positioning looks set to unwind.
Who Needs An Economy When You’ve Got Stocks? Markets On Fire In Two Recession-Hit Locales
Two recession-ravaged economies are enjoying large rallies in domestic equities.
China Cuts MLF Rate In Nod To Sagging Economy
With officials still reluctant to countenance broad-based, “kitchen sink†stimulus, some worry stagflation is imminent.
Market In ‘Sweet Spot’ As Trump Said To Consider Removing Some Tariffs Just As Stocks Hit Highs
It’s all going right, just two months on from a growth scare that sent yields to doomsday lows.
As Stocks ‘Dance’ To Records, Nomura’s Charlie McElligott Looks Ahead
“Short-term ‘contrarian’ positioning signals be damned”.
Chasing Your Own Tail And ‘Zombies At Dawn’
Price discovery lives – even as zombies make a comeback.
‘Bah! Humbug!’ Not Everyone Is Taking A Glass Half-Full Approach To Markets This Week
“Americans are naturally upbeat people.”
Goldman Declares ‘Tariffs Have Peaked’ As Trade Optimism Runs Wild
“Managing differences on the basis of equality and mutual respect”.
Economy Now More Important Than Ever For Trump As Impeachment Probe Goes Public
“Good” is a relative term.
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