Irreconsilable
US twin deficit's & Fed policy point to continued dollar weakness.
Fed adopted new inflation regime targeting 2.5% AIT.
China, tied No1 holder of $DXY reserves intend's to offer its DCEP/CBDC as a dollar alternative leading CB's to diversify away from $USD
Eurozone is caught in a pincer movement where HICP is collapsing and Project Digital and EU 750 Bio bond will if they are to be successful require tolerance of validating inflows. Increasing QE further risks zombification of EZ banks which are already in trouble.
Europe needs
a magic bullet. Talking down the Euro when @Lagarde and @Paschald highlight the urgent need to adopt a digital Euro and at the same time welcome europe's forthcoming 750 Bio 'Safe Asset' common bond which will inevitably lead much needed inflows if they are to validate Europe's
determination to make the Euro and enduring feature on the landscape. @Paschald shows his his inexperience right off the bat '' And third, we will focus on the common currency,....which is also now one of the two predominant world currencies. The simple reason Europe is focussed
on a Digital Euro is becasue China's DCEP has caught, Europe and the US off guard and to omit the Yuan's potential status as a major reserve currency risks irking the largest soveriegn holder of Foreign Bonds.
Euro success depends on a digital strategy and the @ECB must welcome
foreign buyers of its new bond and the resulting currency strength that comes with it. Donahue in his comments highlighs the key objectives : Capital Markets and Banking Union, EU 750 Bio recvovery bond, a Digial strategy. All of them imply Euro strength irrespective of the tides
of US fiscal and monetary policy weakening the dollar, while China's DCEP vies for the same pool of capital that Europe is targetting. Notice during a time of crises, many of them that were China centric, the Chinese authorities worked hard to keep CNY strong versus the dollar
a lesson the @ECB would do well to emulate.
I learned about FX from @bundesbank legends like Tietmeyer, Issing, Stark whose only mantra was a strong currency. Talking down Euro is counterproductive and wont work. you could hardly say Euro was strong cc @joergkukies
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China Outflanked Trump. The Game Is Lost.
Trump is a flailing desperate drunk, swinging for China on Trade & Covid. WH went ''all-in'' on China trade purchases ( wont happen ), meanwhile Covid unwind has been a disaster ( x2 dip ?) leaving Trump 2020 chances almost negligible.
Contrast with China, now on road to recovery with monetary stimulus negligible vs FED which might do more (Clarida) & likely congress slow on more fiscal. Exploding dificits & easy Fed will weigh on dollar. Meanwhile China declared a war of its own, building a tech revolution &
then a ''call to arm's'' telling its people to get on board the stock market. yield differential & state sponsored tech explosion ( Nasdaq 95-00 ) will lift the Yuan driving a broad dollar drop. A weaker dollar boosts global growth ( NB 2009 it helped start a stock mkt rally
Evidence China Manipulates S+P
I've argued China bought dips 17 X from March Asian lows. bit.ly/2VQ4trY Price action today same MO-> rally on little news, coincidentally rallies also. @WSJ concludes same. Asia Buys While U Sleep on.wsj.com/2KnmM2i
Why China Buys US Stocks
Aug 2015 Yuan Deval established a direct causal effect between weaker Yuan and weaker US stocks. Thru my career market participants would say that when when rolls over, correlations converge to 1 likely due to globalisation inter-connectivity. Thus
as china exported #COVID19 , global disconnectedness generated negative tail risks and blowback, opening China up on many front's. The negative export loop where exporting #COVID19 lead to a global pandemic and a collapse in its export's increasing Yuan / interdependence.