Few will read this,but wanted to #Timestamp this commentary. Listened to multiple podcasts and read multiple reports this weekend. It appears only the few remaining bears made money last week. Correlations between stocks, bonds, commodities,FX, etc all reverted to 1, and all
2/ went lower. Is the equity market oversold? Maybe. But zoom out and look at a weekly 10 yr chart. This drop may be just a scratch. The FED meets this week and the fear is they go major Hawk-75 bps and 95 bln B/S drawdown. My chips are on 50 bps and a 60 bln B/S
3/ reduction. It makes little difference, the bath tub is being drained. Valuations are going lower. Unprofitable tech is looking for buyers. CCC debt is looking for buyers (BBB too). This is a treacherous market. IMHO, rallies are to be sold. For the brave, selling
4/ short on a tactical basis is also a strategy. Covered call writing is also an option to take advantage of these elevated vol readings. The major risk is the FED goes soft and the mkt rips. The yield curve and $JNK price action hold the key to the mkt. This time, the
5/ FED meeting is mega important. Tactical trading is the name of the game. Buy and hold is to be retired for the time being. @threadreaderapp unroll
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The US market remains in limbo. Mkt is oversold and the old, slow money is waiting for J Pow and the clowns to deliver their strategy. Some observations; The Ruble is not rubble=higher now than before Feb.24. All this talk of the recession is not rallying long bonds. Credit
2/ spreads remain under pressure-especially junk. How can 'investors' pump non profit tech when junk spreads are widening with no support. Too many PM's are trading the last war. Equity valuations in the 'new economy' are too high. They will drop as credit tightens.
3/ Meanwhile, the old world of steel, fertilizer, energy, etc are trading cheap with tremendous cash flow and debt reduction. How many asset mangers have a steel analyst? These clowns all have 20 analysts on $GOOGL, but 0 on $NTR. Some unconventional opinions. There is a
Few will read this, but putting digital ink to work. The equity market is in a world of pain and the Fed is in a tough spot. The issue is Repo collateral and Hi Yield securities. In a environment of ample Central Bank liquidity, leveraged money can buy positions and carry
2/ them with little cost. They can repo these junk securities to buy other junk securities and then repeat the process. This leverage upon leverage is in the process of unwinding. There are few if any buyers of this junk paper. Look at the OAS spreads on junk credit. For
3/ the easy analysis is look at the price action in $JNK or $HYG. Spoiler alert, it is terrible. As I used to say as a fixed income trader, I can put you into any position you want. Exiting that position at a profit is where the real skill lies. This is the situation now.
#OOTT The 2 most E&P positive events this week come from our good friends in Norway. 1) Norway SWF changes its policy of liquidating carbon producing assets to working with the mgmt to reduce the emissions. About time some one figured it out. Think Engine No. 1. This
#OOTT 2/ action will be the first of many as the woke public pension funds and endowments reassess their positions. Clearly Larry Fink and Mike BBG figured it out and realized selling assets to other people at these valuations was like throwing money out the window. Going fwd,
#OOTT 3/ this is going to see the E&Ps being persuaded to return capital and not plow money into the ground. O&G production is not going to ramp in 2022. The 2nd event, is Aker BP (Norwegian company) buying Lundin Energy. What???? A company buying a Norwegian producer
#OOTT The darkness over the FF industry is starting to lift. Investors are realizing that the TOTAL ENERGY pie is expanding and will continue to expand for the foreseeable future. 99% of Wall Street have no clue what life is like in the developing world. Electricity demand
#OOTT 2/ is about to go S curve. As the energy demand curve expands, every source of power will be tapped. Will renewables be the fastest growers-probably as its base is low. On a % base it will lead, but on an absolute base, unlikely as it can not scale. Witness Vestas
#OOTT 3/yesterday. Ugly earnings and market report. Why? Because steel prices are up and components are in short supply. Trick question. When did biomass and coal use peak? Answer; Not yet and still growing despite the Greenies effort. Can we produce power better? Of course
#OOTT Oil prices retreating. No surprise as the tree gets shaken. The backwardated curve is losing some of its steepness as the mkt is expecting an SPR release. OPEC+ is going to stick with its plan, but the cheating will begin from the players that can over produce. Enjoy
#OOTT 2/ the downdraft while you can as the winter months are around the corner. With the $NG situation, products are in demand (diesel, kerosene, etc). Demand is going up across the energy spectrum. It is a slow increase, but persistent. US shale has spoken-flat output
#OOTT 3/ in 2022 unless Mr. Market starts rewarding current shareholders. Otherwise it is debt pay down, divvies and share buy backs. On the political front, the Virginia Governor race is almost confirming a switch in Congress next year. The Biden Admin is on the ropes
Napoleon quote: "Never interfere with your enemy when they are making a mistake". That is the Chinese game plan ever since they were admitted to the WTO. For 20+ years, US business has done a wonderful job of off shoring jobs, pollution, and technology to China under the
2/pretense that they could sell their wares to the 1.4 bln potential customers. China thinks in decades, not on FYs. Their plan was simple. Absorb all the US technology and learn how the capitalist system works to bring their country out of the dark ages. For 20+ years
3/ they have executed their plan and now the game is changing. The US middle class has been gutted and thousands of one factory towns have fallen victim to the outsourcing. US labor got smoked as the 1 bln of low wage Chinese workers allowed US employers to move it off shore.