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Weekly Global Macro Review 10/07/21

1/15

@hedgeye calls it #Quad2 reflation, but I rather prefer @jam_croissant’s colorful description of “endless gamma squeezes” oh so reminiscent of 🎉🍾🥳 like it’s 1999!

Let’s dig into the macro 🧮 for the week
2/15

A 🕊 #FOMC on Wednesday and a 💪🏼 #NFP report on Friday with underlying wage #inflation of 4.9% y/y was enough to ignite a rally in the $UST market ↗️

WTF, you say?
3/15

Indeed, the MOVE 66.30 ↘️ from 78.34 on Tuesday as the 10/2s curve remained 🥞 at 105

2Y .405 -9.6 bps
5Y 1.056 -12.9 bps
10Y 1.455 -10.6 bps
30Y 1.888 -5.1 bps

Chart: Despite a strong #NFP, the $TNX ↘️ -10.6 BPS to 1.455 and at critical support
4/15

Bond ETFs rallied ↗️ led by convertibles and long duration with dividends paid on Friday

$CWB +1.37%
$TLT +1.22%
$LQD +1.21%
$BNDX +1.04%
$IEF +1.01%
$HYG +0.98%
$TIP +0.97%
$BND +0.7%
$IVOL +0.62%

Chart: With this move, $TLT is now ♉️ (t) +5.23% and (T) +1.15% but ⛅️
5/15

This move ↗️ in the bond market begs the question of whether #inflation has peaked 🔝?

Chart: $CRB -1.13% after hitting a cycle 🏔 the previous week
5a/15

Chart: $INFL -0.57% also 🏔 last week and ↘️ this week
6/15

Indeed, hydrocarbons 🛢⛽️ came under pressure ↘️ , even as OPEC+ refused JB’s request

$WTIC 81.27 -2.75% with $OVX 37.84
$BRENT 82.55 -2.17%
$GASO 2.32 -2.11%
$NATGAS 5.52 +1.66% 🔺

Chart: $WTIC remains ♉️ (t) +2.42% and (T) +19.02% BUT momentum 🎢 is rolling over
7/15

Grains were ↔️ on the week with the big 3 ↘️

$WHEAT 676 -0.68%
$CORN 553 -2.68%
$SOYB 1204 -3.63%
$SUGAR 19.90 +3.27% 🔺

☕️ 204 -0.2%

Chart: $CORN flipped to neutral (T) -0.63% but remains ♉️ (t) +4.24%
8/15

While $COPPER was ↘️, precious metals traded ↘️

$COPPER 4.34 -0.69%
$SILVER 24.16 +0.88% with $VXSLV 29.84 🔺
$PLAT 1036 +1.48% ♉️
$GOLD 1817 +1.84% with $GVZ 16.64 🔺

Chart: $GOLD is now ♉️ (t) +3.38% and (T) +3.05%. Do with that as you may ⛅️
9/15

With SPX Q321 company sales +18.85% and earnings +41.8% per @hedgeye, domestic equities 🚀 to new ATHs with small caps leading

$IWM 242 +6.03%
$COMPQ 15972 +3.05%
$SPX 4698 +2.0%

Chart: $IWM broke from a multi-month trading range with room to 🏃🏿‍♀️
10/15

Top US Sectors
$XLY +5.03%
$XLK +3.44%
$XLB +3.17%
$XLP +2.46%

Underperformers
$XLV -0.72%
$XLF -0.6%
$XLU +0.46%

Chart: $XLY ♉️ is +15.7% over (t) duration and +16.71% over past 3 months 🍋 #squeeze #parabola
10a/15

Chart: Retail 🏪 busted a move this week with the $XRT +7.85%
10b/15

Dark pool players ♥️♠️♦️♣️ bought the $FOMC with $DIX ↗️ to 47 but took 💰 on Friday, per @SqueezeMetrics 🍋

Chart link to $DIX: squeezemetrics.com/monitor/dix
11/15

Major international indices ↔️ with 🇫🇷↗️ and 🇭🇰↘️

$CAC 7041 +3.08%
$NIKK +2.49%
$DAX 16054 +2.33%
$KOSPI 2969 -0.05%
$SSEC 3492 -1.57%
$HSI 24870 -2.0%

Chart: $NIKK flipped to ♉️ (t) +5.57% and (T) +6.44%
12/15

Strongest internat’l ETFs

$EWJ +2.87%
$EWQ +2.77%
$EWW +2.73%
$EWI +2.69%

Weakest
$FXI -2.45%
$IDX -1.66%
$EDEN -0.58%
13/15

Little change to the $USD on the surface of things, but ↗️ sharply vs. 🇦🇺 and 🇬🇧

$USD 94.207 +0.09%
$JPY 0.882 +0.52%
$CHF 1.096 +0.34%
$EUR 1.157 +0.07%
$CAD 0.803 -0.61%
$GBP 1.35 -1.4%
$AUD 0.74 -1.58%

Chart: A 🕊 BOE led to a steep ↘️ in the $GBP 🐻
14/15

New buy signals:
EWJ, EWW, INDA, EWD, XRT, XME, XLP, GLD, TLT

New sell signals
DBB, FXI
15/15

Despite a #FOMC threat to take the 👊🥣 away, equity investors 🎉🍾🥳 like it’s 1999.

Bond investors sniffed an #inflation 🔝 and joined the 🎉🍾🥳

Some #MeanReversion expected this week - especially since the $DIX took 🤑 off the 🍽

Have a super profitable 💰 week!
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Hello Melt Down Monday! 💥

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Let's dig into the market 🧮!
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$SSEC 3097 -7.35%
$HSI 19828 -13.2% ⬅️
$KOSPI 2328 -5.55%
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$WTIC 🔻
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$BTC 🔻

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$KOSPI 2529 -0.15%
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Bharat ↔️
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Let's dig into the market 🧮!

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$SSEC 3379 +0.85%
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$KOSPI 2655 unch
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$VSTOXX 16.85 🔻

$DAX range = 21951 - 22904 ♉️
$FEZ range = 53.07 - 55.46 ♉️

$DAX 23324 -0.05%
$FTSE 8677 +0.15%
$CAC 8155 +0.4%
$AEX 939 unch
$IBEX 12937 -0.3%
$MIB 38322 +0.2%
$SMI 12868 +0.5%
$MOEX 3304 +0.35%
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Jan 1
🐻♉️↗️↘️↔️⚠️🚩🔺🔻🧮 💰

2025 Global Macro Outlook

1/15  🧵

Here are the major factors in play as we head into the new year:

- Fed and Bond market at odds
- Bear steepener in play with 10Y3M de-inverting
- US inflation sticky with strong, above trend NGDP
- Employment weakening around the edges
- CBs around the world cutting (US likely on pause)
- Yen carry trade unwind round 2
- China stimulating
- Global conflicts increasing
- Trump presidency (tariffs, taxes, budget deficit, and debt ceiling)
- $USD Strength, elevated yields
$SPX and $BTC near ATHs (sentiment near giddy)

Let’s break these down
2/15

The Fed and the Bond market have been at odds all year

Coming into 2024, Fed Funds Futures markets were pricing 6 to 7 rate cuts. The bond market responded by driving yields from 3.87% on 12/31/23 to 4.7% in four months while the Fed stood pat at 5.25-5.5% FFs

Then came the summer growth scare

The 10Y dropped to a low of 3.603 coming into the 9/18 Fed meeting. Spooked by the SAHM rule trigger, the Fed cut 50.

What did the bond market do?

Turned tail and rose to 4.5% in 2 months, fell back briefly to 4.125% in early December before rising to 4.64% last week, following the Fed’s hawkish cut and likely pause.

I see this back and forth dynamic continuing with another growth scare coming in Q125. More Fed cuts to come after a January pause.Image
3/15

The consequence of Fed/Bond market interplay is the bear steepening of the yield curve

After more than a 2-year inversion, the 10Y3M curve de-inverted on 12/14/24

Previously recognized as the most accurate signal of a coming recession in the next 3-6 months, the 10Y3M curve has been written off as dead

I don’t think it’s dead, and we are likely to experience a contraction in 2025.Image
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Let's dig into the market 🧮!
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$NIKK 39068 -0.8%
$SSEC 3404 +1.05%
$HSI 19866 +1.55% ⬅️
$KOSPI 2428 -0.55%
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