Jeffrey Gundlach - Credit performance: again IG negative last year. Triple CCC loans did really. CLOs did well as did CMBS thanks to easing in delinquency data.
Gundlach: @EconguyRosie of Rosenberg Research made a good point during DoubleLine's Round Table Prime on the underappreciated fiscal drag that is coming.
Gundlach: Homes prices are still going up a lot with mortgage rates way below the pace of price gains in housing, it's not surprising people have been anxious to get involved in the housing market, perhaps using government transfer payments to help make downpayments.
Gundlach: Existing home supply very low.
As long as mortgage rates remain low, supportive of housing market.
Gundlach: Fed Funds Rate kind of follows Wage Growth. Until now. Wage growth line is screaming for the Fed to raise Fed Funds. Probably played a role in causing Jay Powell to trash the dovish talk.
Fed's behind the curve. They seem to be waking up to that now.
Gundlach: The economy has broken at an ever-lower terminal Fed Funds rate.
Last time took only 2.5 on the fed funds to break stocks and the economy. Maybe 1.5 might be the breaking point the next time. We might get there in the next 12 to 18 months.
On Monday, we hosted our Inaugural Round Table Prime ft @DlineCap CEO Jeff Gundlach, FPA Advisors managing partner Steve Romick, @Quillintel CEO @DimartinoBooth, Rosenberg Research chief economist @EconGuyRosie, @Biancoresearch’s Jim Bianco, and Evercore ISI chairman Ed Hyman.
“I think all of the central banks will remain extremely accommodative… although the Fed would like to not have to ease policy… I think that is going to be challenged”
Jeffrey Gundlach announces "our own Round Table" bringing together Jeffrey as host, Jeffrey Sherman as moderator and special guests @DiMartinoBooth@biancoresearch@EconguyRosie, Ed Hyman & Steve Romick.
Tune in this Tuesday, December 10, as DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach and portfolio manager Andrew Hsu present "A Rolling Loan Gathers no Loss".
Follow along here for some highlights of @DLineCap CEO Jeffrey Gundlach’s presentation, “A Rolling Loan Gathers No Loss”, a title he credited to @Jkylebass and a metaphor for the corporate bond market.
"Sustained negative rates in Europe have really changed people's attitudes & behavior... people are wondering if they should throw out bonds from their efficient frontier analysis & just not include them in their asset class allocation considerations." - Jeffrey Gundlach