Thread by @CantillonCH

Thanks to @GeoffCutmore & @steve_sedgwick for the chat on #SquawkBox this morning!

Short and sweet today, but I hope it was of some interest. The notes I put together ahead of time will follow in this thread...
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First of all, it's #ValentinesDay and SOMEONE is going to get massacred today when the #CPI is released, so naturally:-

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Roses are red, violets are blue,
JayPow doesn't know
And neither do you.

#inflation's effects are not as universal as they were, but does that mean we can all now relax?

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The #jobs market, meanwhile, is still smokin' hot (at least, it is if that last #NFP print is to be believed). Certainly not enough signs of distress to derail the #Fed's loudly declared intent.

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Not hard to find signs of weakness but also (partial explanations) and offsets. Falling #energy prices cast a long shadow on some of the macro numbers.

#PMI #ISM #oil #gas

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Ironically, in a world supposedly plagued by weakening industry and where finance is both dearer and more pickily extended, those at the higher, capital intensive end of the productive chain are breaking a lot more ground than those at the lower.

#CRE #manufacturing #housing
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Adding to the confusion, we are potentially suffering from some serious misapprehensions about just how tight are money & #credit. In these circumstances, the widely-noted lack of #moneysupply growth may well be deceptive.

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Furthermore, we may have come up a long way from the bottom in fairly short order, but its still too early to say we're risking the bends, much less altitude sickness, when it comes to real #yields

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Heads or Tails? Kopf oder Zahl?
Both market & #FOMC have managed to talk themselves into a corner regarding today's #CPI release. What we REALLY need for direction is a brief rally/sell-off on a weak/strong number which gets instantly rejected & sucks in volume on the move
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The wider import is that such reversals -of policy, positioning, of data and direction- may be here to stay. #Multiflation, we call it and it's a doozy!
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Larger divergences from expectations. Wider ranges of outcomes. Lesser predictability. Shortened horizons (and hence higher natural rates). Time to get the flared jeans and the Adidas T-shirts out of the wardrobe & start doing the Tiger Feet dance.

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Oh, and 60/40 RIP. Risk parity, too, probably - a well as a host of other mechanical correlation strategies.

It's a world of rigorous Auftragstaktik up at the sharp end, not Chateau generalship and sandbox Schlieffen Plans.

#Multiflation!

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"These are not the investment advice 'droids you've been looking for"

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And you just knew I wouldn't be able to resist, didn't you??



#Mud #TigerFeet

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