Thread by @KirtanShahCFP

🧵 on the global macros,

(1) What’s happening to Yields & Currencies globally?
(2) Why is the $ going up?
(3) Why is INR performing better than most currencies?

Do ‘re-tweet’ & help us educate more investors (1/25)

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(Q1) Where did all of this start?

(1a) COVID put the breaks on all kind of economic activities, fear of GDP slowing down, Individuals losing jobs, Companies making losses etc. (2/25)

(1b) Central banks globally unleashed a liquidity package by lowering rates (so that loans become cheap & u buy more) & doing Quantitative Easing (QE)/buying back bonds (Similar to when you buy an FD from a bank, u give bank the money & increase the liquidity with the bank)(3/25)

(1c) Suddenly everyone had monies or could borrow at almost 0% & all this money started chasing stock markets & commodities (rates were zero so no one wanted to invest in fixed income then) (4/25)

(1d) Yields were going down, Stock Markets went up, commodity prices went up & hence inflation went up (You call this demand-pull inflation - An inflation that happens because there is demand) (5/25)

(1e) Along with liquidity, Russia - Ukraine war & China zero tolerance to COVID & political agendas created supply side problems thereby fuelling Inflation even further up (Ex: Supply of Gas become a problem for Europe from Russia) (6/25)

(Q2) So what’s the situation now?

(2a) You have inflation because of both, liquidity led Demand & Russia + China led Supply problems (7/25)

(2b) You cant control the supply side problem as a central bank because neither Russia & nor China is in your control & hence the focus is on how to reduce liquidity so that the demand driven inflation can be controlled (8/25)

(2c) Which ever central bank infused more liquidity has more demand inflationary pressure today (US & UK)

(2d) US & UK have an inflation target of 2% but their inflation is at 9-10% vs India which infused less liquidity & hence target is 6% & inflation is at 7% (9/25)

(Q3) What are central banks doing to reduce the demand led inflation?

- Increasing rates & Quantitative Tightening (QT - It’s the opposite of QE/buying of bonds that we discussed above) (10/25)

(3a) By increasing rates, central banks are trying to bring demand down (Mortgage rates in the US have gone up from 2% to 7% in 1 year)
- US has already increased rates by 3%
- UK has by 2.25%
- India has by 1.4% (11/25)

(3b) Quantitative Tightening - Central banks have started selling the bonds they purchased during QE. When they sell the bonds, they receive monies from the market & thereby reducing the liquidity with the market (12/25)

(4) How did this affect the capital markets?

(4a) It affected Equities negatively, explained 👇 (13/25)

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(4b) Yields went up, explained 👇(14/25)

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(4c) Currencies went down, explained 👇(15/25)

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(4d) Gold went down,
- Gold is bought in $’s globally. So if the $ goes up, price of the gold goes up & hence demand falls & so the price of Gold falls (16/25)

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(Q5) But $ was printed the most & there is inflation in the US then why is $ going up?

(5a) $ is a risk free asset, when ever there is risk off in the market, the monies flow into $ & hence it goes up (17/25)

(5b) When you increase rates, it’s a signal that the economy is strong & increase in rates wont derail our growth. Strong economy deserves stronger currency. US has raised the highest rates & hence $ is up (18/25)

(5c) US does not import oil & is self dependent. Another reason why its trade deficit is better than most & hence a stronger $

(5d) Interest rate differentials vs Europe & Japan is also helping the $ (Thread explaining this concept -

https://twitter.com/KirtanShahCFP/status/1543416625151754241

) (19/25)

(5e) Most importantly, $ is moving higher because the other economies are weak & hence their currencies are even weaker which is benefiting the $. $ has not really moved higher vs the EM currencies. Chart Credit @RobinBrooksIIF (20/25)

(Q6) What did Japan do earlier in the month?

(6a) Japan has not been increasing rates & does not have a very aggressive policy stance & hence yields are still very low & Yen kept falling vs the $ (21/25)

(6b) Japan intervened in the forex market & bought Yen which helped & Yen appreciated 2% vs $

(6c) This is a temporary measure in my opinion & may not make any material impact on the Yen (22/25)

(Q7) What did UK do?

UK is confused as hell. Now that you understand, you decide. UK did the below lately,
- UK cut taxes where by increased liquidity
- Did Quantitative Easing by buying bonds

What do you think should happen to GBP & Yields? You should be able to answer (23/25)

(Q8) Why is India so resilient on currency, Yields & Stocks? Explained in the attachment 👇(24/25)
- Yields & $ have to stop rising for Equity markets to stabilise
- We cant stay insulated if the world goes south, we can only outperform

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-Personal Finance etc.

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