TURKEY has been in the limelight recently with Erdogan winning yet another term (again) and TRY trading like Venezuelan Bolivar. But what is going on with Turkey these days?
While Inflation has been met with rate cuts, foreign sovereign bond investors have cut tail and ran. Meanwhile the vulnerability of relying on foreign in-flows has been exposed causing a MASSIVE pressure on the TRY and the current account deficit grown 2/
The implicit policy aim by Erdogan has been to attempt to fight inflation with public spending cuts and loose monetary policy to help out indebted buisnesses facing high costs - Needless to say this exotic policy mix has not worked 3/
While the economy has thrived in real terms the industry has not been booming. Instead much of the credit growth has been going to households who have spent on foreign goods adding to the balance problem 4/
While markets have punished bond holders Turkish equities have been flying high on the sugar rush. But with the economy turning and the lira under severe pressure where will the markets likely go and how to trade it? 5/
1) Positioning is getting stretched in the West, especially among fund managers, while also the recent retail inflow is very much in the high end of recent flows seen
2) Positioning is also stretched long in China and we know that Asian buying from both official and unofficial accounts have been behind much of the bullishness seen in Gold
NO, “NET FED LIQUIDITY” DOES NOT DRIVE DAILY BITCOIN FLUCTUATIONS
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I have lost count of the number of Macro accounts trying to pitch daily mechanical “Net Fed liquidity” updates as if it was the only thing that mattered for markets
Most people, myself included, define liquidity as 1) Fed SOMA holdings - 2) TGA - 3) ON RRP + 4) BTFP & Discount Window and while there is much more nuance to it than that, lets keep it simple for this exercise.
5 reasons why there is a bloodbath ahead in Copper markets into July!
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Reason 1: Is the phycial demand gone
China keeps building reserves (at exchanges), which at first glance seems like a strategic build-up of copper, but it is increasingly odd that the Copper does NOT leave the exchange, if we are indeed talking about a reserve bulding exercise
Reason 2:
The Yangshan Cathode premium to LME is still negative, indicating that we should expect a build-up in Asian warehouses that might flood the LME by July
WHY RISING FREIGHT RATES WILL LEAD TO HIGHER INFLATION IN THE US COMPARED TO EUROPE?
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The goods inflation is typically more important in Europe than in the US, but the strenght of the consumer is important to assess the impact of rising freight rates
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The US consumption base is simply more geared for price increases than the European counterparts currently
US and UK retail sales close to all time wide levels based on December numbers, which is a strong hint of a big divergence between consumers
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We empirically observe a 3-5 month lag between freight rates and consumer inflation in the US, while the lag is a lot longer in Europe and elsewhere.
The most recent case study is 2021 when US inflation rocketed approximately 6-7 months ahead of European peers.
Ooooops, if you think soft data looks bearish compared to hard data, then wait till you look at the equity markets expectations of the future
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Also... On the back of today's Philly manufacturing numbers the spread between prices paid and recevied reached its all time high. That bodes pretty well for SPX historically
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Another reason you should pay attention to the divergence between soft and hard data.. why??