January 5, 2017, 4:00pm EST

We talked yesterday about the bad start for global markets in 2016.  It was led by China.  Today, it was a move in the Chinese currency that slowed the momentum in markets.  Yields have fallen back.  The dollar slid. And stocks took a breather.

China’s currency is a big deal to everyone.  It’s the centerpiece of the tariff threats that have been levied from the U.S. President-elect.  I’ve talked quite a bit about that posturing (you can see it again here:  Why Trump’s Tough Talk On China May Work).

As we know, China, itself, sets the value of its currency every day.  It’s called a managed float.  They determine the value.  And for the past two years, they’ve been walking it lower — weakening the yuan against the dollar.  That’s an about face to the trend of the prior nine years.  In 2005, in agreement with their major trading partners (primarily the U.S.), they began slowly appreciating their currency, in an effort to allay trade tensions, and threats of trade sanctions (tariffs).

So what happened today?  The Chinese revalued its currency — pegged ithigher by a little more than a percent against the dollar.  That doesn’t sound like a lot, but as you can see in the chart, it’s a big move, relative to the average daily volatility. That became big news and stoked a little bit of concern in markets, mostly because China was the sore spot at the open of last year, and the PBOC made a similar move around this time, when global marketswere spiraling.

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Why did they do it?  This time around, the Chinese have complained about the threat of capital flowing out of the country – it’s a huge threat to their economy in its current form.  That’s where they’ve laid the blame, on the two year slide in the value of the yuan. With that, they’ve allegedly been fighting to keep the yuan stable and have been stepping up restrictions on money leaving the country.  Today’s move, which included a spike in the overnight yuan borrowing rate, was a way to crush speculators that have been betting against the currency, putting further downward pressure on the currency. But it also likely Trump related – the beginning of a crawl higher in the currency as we head toward the inauguration of the new President Trump.  It’s very typical for those under the gun for currency manipulation to make concessions before they meet with trade partners.

So, should we be concerned about the move today in China?  No.  It’s not another January 2016 moment. But the move did drive profit taking in twobig trends of the past two months:  the dollar and U.S. Treasuries.  With that, the first jobs report of the year comes tomorrow. It should provide more evidence that the Fed will hike a few times this year.  And that should restore the climb in the dollar and in rates.

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January 4, 2017, 4:00pm EST

Remember this time last year?  The markets opened with a nosedive in Chinese stocks.  By the time New York came in for trading, China was already down 7% and trading had been halted.  That started, what turned out to be, the worst opening stretch of a New Year in the history of the U.S. stock market.

The sirens were sounding and people were gripping for what they thought was going to be a disastrous year.  And then, later that month, oil slid from the mid $30s to the mid $20s and finally people began to realize it wasn’t China they should be worried about, it was oil.  The oil price crash was a ticking time bomb, about to unleash mass bankruptcies on the energy industry and threaten a “round two” of global financial crisis.

What happened?  Central banks stepped in.  On February 11th, the Bank of Japan intervened in the currency markets, buying dollars/selling yen.  What did they do with those dollars?  They must have bought oil, in one form or another.  Oil bottomed that day. China soon followed with a move to boost bank lending, relieving some fears of a global liquidity crunch.  The ECB upped its QE program and cut rates.  And then the Fed followed up by taking two of their projected four rate hikes off of the table (of which they ended up moving just once on the year).

What a difference a year makes.

There’s a clear shift in the environment, away from a world on liquidity-driven life support/ and toward structural, growth-oriented change.

With that, there’s a growing sense of optimism in the air that we haven’t seenin ten years.  Even many of the pros that have constantly been waiting for the next “shoe to drop” (for years) have gone quiet.

Global markets have started the year behaving very well. And despite the near tripling from the 2009 bottom in the stock market, money is just in the early stages of moving out of bonds and cash, and back into stocks. Following the election in November, we are coming into the year with TWO consecutive record monthly inflows into the U.S. stock market based on ETF flows from November and December.

The tone has been set by U.S. markets, and we should see the rest of the world start to play catch up (including emerging markets).  But this development was already underway before the election.

Remember, I talked about European stocks quite a bit back in October.  While U.S. stocks have soared to new record highs, German stocks have lagged dramatically and have offered one of the more compelling opportunities.

Here’s the chart we looked at back in October, where I said “after being down more than 20% earlier this year, German stocks are within 1.5% of turning green on the year, and technically breaking to the upside“…

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And here’s the latest chart…

GERM STOCKS

You can see, as you look to the far right of the chart, it’s been on a tear. Adding fuel to that fire, the eurozone economic data is beginning to show signs that a big bounce may be coming. A pop in U.S. growth would only bolster that.

And a big bounce back in euro zone growth this year would be a very valuabledefense against another populist backlash against the establishment (first Grexit, then Brexit, then Trump).  Nationalist movements in Germany and France are huge threats to the EU and euro (the common currency).  Another round of potential break-up of the euro would be destabilizing for the global economy.

With that, as we enter the year with the ammunition to end the decade long economy rut, there are still hurdles to overcome.  Along with Trump/China frictions, the French and German elections are the other clear and present dangers ahead that could dull the efficacy of Trumponomics.

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January 2, 2017, 4:00pm EST

Happy New Year!  We’re off to what will be a very exciting year for markets and the economy.  And make no mistake, there will be profound differences in the world this year, with the inauguration of a new, pro-growth U.S. President, at a time where the world desperately needs growth.

I’ve talked a lot about the “Trump effect.”  Clearly, when you come in slashing the corporate tax rate, creating incentives for trillions of dollars of capital to come home, and eliminating overhead and hurdles associated with regulation, you’ll get hiring, you’ll get spending, you’ll get investment and you’ll get growth.

But there’s more to it.  Ray Dalio, one of the richest, best and brightest investors in the world has said, there is a clear shift in the environment, “from one that makes profit makers villains with limited power, to one that makes them heroes with significant power.”

The latter has been diminished over the past 10 years.

Clearly, we entered the past decade in an economic and structural mess. But while monetary policy makers were doing everything in their power (and then some) to avert the apocalypse and, later, fuel a recovery, it was being undone by law makers and a lack of fiscal support, swinging the pendulum too far in the direction of punishment and scapegoating.

With that, despite the continued wealth creation of the 1% over the past decade, and the widening of the inequality gap, the power of the wealth creators has been diminished in the crisis period – certainly, the public’s favor toward the rich has diminished.  And most importantly, the incentives for creating value and creating wealth have been diminished.

With all of the nuances of change that are coming, and the many opinions on what it all means, that statement by billionaire Ray Dalio might be the most simple and clear point made.

Another good point that has been made by Dalio, as he’s reflected on the “Trump effect.”  It’s the element that economists and analysts can’t predict, and can’t quantify.  The prospects of the return of “animal spirits.”  This is what has been destroyed over the past decade, driven primarily by the fear of indebtedness (which is typical of a debt crisis) and mis-trust of the system.
All along the way, throughout the recovery period, and throughout a tripling of the stock market off of the bottom, people have continually been waiting for another shoe to drop.  The breaking of this emotional mindset appears to finally be underway.  And that gives way to a return of animal spirits, which haven’t been calibrated in all of the forecasts for 2017 and beyond.

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November 28, 2016, 4:45pm EST

With Thanksgiving behind us, we a few key events ahead for markets before we can put a bow on things and call it a year.

As things stand, the S&P 500 is up around 8%, right in line with the long term average return (less dividends).  Yields are around 2.3%.  That’s right about where we left off at the end of 2015 (following the Fed’s first move higher on rates since the crisis).

We may find a round trip for oil as well before the year it over.  On Wednesday, we’ll finally hear from OPEC on a production cut. Remember, it was late September when we were told that the Saudis were finally on board for a production cut, to get oil prices higher and to stop the bleeding in the oil revenue dependent OPEC economies.

As we’ve discussed, it was Saudi Arabia that blocked a cut on
Thanksgiving day evening two years ago.  And that sent oil into a spiral from $70 to as low as $26.  Importantly, cheap oil has not only represented a threat to global economic stability but it’s been deflationary.  The threat to stability and the deflationary pressure is what has kept the Fed on the sidelines, reversing course on their rate hike projections for this year, and then, conversely, becoming progressively more and more dovish since March.

You can see in this graphic from the Fed last December (2015) after they decided to hike for the first time coming out of the crisis period.

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Source: Fed

The majority view from Fed members was an expectation that the Fed funds rate would be about 1.375% at this point in th year (2016).  As we know, it hasn’t happened.  As of two months ago, the Fed was expecting rates to be at just 1.00% by the end next year.

This makes this week’s OPEC decision even more important, given the market’s and Fed’s expectations on the path of monetary policy at this point.

If OPEC does as they’ve indicated they will do this week, by announcing the first production cut in oil in eight years, it could send the price of oil back to levels of two years ago — when the oil price bust was started that Thanksgiving day.  That’s $70.

And $70 oil would play a huge role in where rates go next year, in the U.S., and in Europe and Japan.  The inflationary pressures of $70 oil could put the Fed back on a path to hike three to four times in the coming year (as they intended coming into 2016).  And it could create the beginning of taper talk in Europe and Japan.

If we consider that possibility, it makes for a remarkably dramatic change in the global economic outlook in just five weeks (since the Nov 8 election).  As Paul Tudor Jones, one of the great macro traders of all-time, has said: “the very best money is made at the market turns. Everyone says you get killed trying to pick tops and bottoms and you make all your money by playing the trend in the middle. Well for twelve years I have been missing the meat in the middle but I have made a lot of money at tops and bottoms.”  An OPEC move should cement the top in bonds.

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November 18, 2016, 4:30pm EST

In my November 2 note (here), I talked about three big changes this year that have been underemphasized by Wall Street and the financial media, but have changed the outlook for the global economy and global markets.

Among them was Japan’s latest policy move, which licensed them to do unlimited QE.

In September they announced that they would peg the Japanese 10 year government bond yield at ZERO. At that time, rates were deeply into negative territory. In that respect, it was actually a removal of monetary stimulus in the near term — the opposite of the what the market was hoping for, though few seemed to understand the concept.

I talked about it earlier this month as an opportunity for the BOJ to do unlimited QE, and in a way that would allow them to keep stimulating the economy even as growth and inflation started moving well in their direction.

With this in mind, the Trump effect has sent U.S. yields on a tear higher. That move has served to pull global interest rates higher too — and that includes Japanese rates.

You can see in this chart, the 10 year in Japan is now positive, as of this week.


With this, the BOJ came in this week and made it known that they were a buyer of Japanese government bonds, in an unlimited amount (i.e. they are willing to buy however much necessary to push yields back down to zero).

Though the market seems to be a little confused by this, certainly the media is.  This is a big deal. I talked about this in my daily note the day after the BOJ’s move in September.  And the Fed’s Bernanke even posted his opinion/interpretation of the move.  Still, not many woke up to it.

What’s happening now is the materialization of the major stimulative policy they launched in September. This has green lighted the short yen trade/long Japanese equity trade again.  It should drive another massive devaluation of the yen, and a huge runup in Japanese stocks (which I don’t think ends until it sees the all-time highs of ’89 — much, much higher).

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October 31, 2016, 4:15pm EST

As we discussed on Friday, the dominant theme last week was the big run-up in global yields.  This week, we have four central banks queued up to decide on rates/monetary policy.

With that, let’s take a look at the key economic measures that have been dictating the rate path or, rather, the emergency policy initiatives of the past seven years. Do the data still justify the policies?

First up tonight is Australia.  The RBA was among the last to slash rates when the global economic crisis was unraveling.  They cut from 7.25% down to a floor of just 3% (while other key central banks were slashing down to zero).  And because China was quick to jump on the depressed commodities market in 2009, gobbling up cheap commodities, commodities bounced back aggressively.  And the outlook on the  commodity-centric Australian economy bounced back too.  Australia actually avoided official recession even at the depths of the global economic crisis. With that, the RBA was quick to reverse the rate cuts, heading back up to 4.75%.  But the world soon realized that emerging market economies could survive in a vacuum.  They (including China) relied on consumers from the developed world, which were sucking wind for the foreseeable future.

The RBA had to, again, slash rates to respond to another downward spiral in commodities market, and a plummet in their economy.  Rates are now at just 1.5% – well below their initial cuts in the early stages of the crisis.

But the Australian economy is now growing at 3.3% annualized.  The best growth in four years. But inflation remains very low at 1.7%. Doesn’t sound bad, right?  The August data was running fairly close to these numbers, and the RBA  CUT rates in August – maybe another misstep.

The Bank of Japan is tonight.  Remember, last month the BOJ, in a surprising move, announced they would peg the 10 year yield at zero percent.  That has been the driving force behind the swing in global market interest rates.  At one point this summer $12 trillion worth of negative yielding government bonds.  The negative yield pool has been shrinking since.  Japan has possibly become the catalyst to finally turn the global bond market. But pegging the rate at zero should also serve as an anchor for global bond yields (restricting the extent of the rise in yields).  That should, importantly, keep U.S. consumer rates in check (mortgages, auto loans, credit card rates, etc.).  Also, importantly, the BOJ’s policy move is beginning to put downward pressure on the yen again, which the BOJ needs much lower — and upward pressure on Japanese stocks, which the BOJ needs much higher.

With that, the Fed is next on the agenda for the week.  The Fed has been laying the groundwork for a December rate hike (number two in their hiking campaign).  As we know, the unemployment rate is well into the Fed’s approval zone (around 5%).  Plus, we’ve just gotten a GDP number of 2.9% annualized (long run average is just above 3%). But the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge is still running below 2% (its target) — but not much (it’s 1.7%). Janet Yellen has all but told us that they will make another small move in December.  But she’s told us that she wants to let the economy run hot — so we shouldn’t expect a brisk pace of hikes next year, even if data continues to improve.

Finally, the Bank of England comes Thursday.  They cut rates and launched another round of QE in August, in response to economic softness/threat following the Brexit vote.  There were rumors over the weekend that Mark Carney, the head of the BOE, was being pushed out of office. But that was quelled today with news that he has re-upped to stay on through 2019.  The UK economy showed better than expected growth in the third quarter, at 2.3%.  And inflation data earlier in the month came in hotter than expected, though still low.  But inflation expectations have jumped to 2.5%.  With rates at ¼ point and QE in process, and data going the right direction, the bottom in monetary policy is probably in.

So the world was clearly facing deflationary threats early in the year, which wasn’t helped by the crashing price of oil.  But the central banks this week, given the data picture, should be telling us that the ship is turning.  And with that, we should see more hawkish leaning views on the outlook for global central bank policies and the global rate environment.

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August 30, 2016, 5:00pm EST

Last Thursday, everyone was awaiting the Friday Jackson Hole speech from Yellen.  I suggested that, while all eyes were on Yellen, maybe Kuroda (the head of the BOJ) would steal the show:  “he could conjure up some Bernanke style QE3. Not a bad bet to be long USD/JPY and dollar-denominated Nikkei through the weekend (ETF, DBJP or DXJ).”

Indeed, Yellen was short on clarity as we’ve discussed in recent days.  As of this afternoon, stocks are now unchanged from Thursday afternoon (just prior to her speech).  And the 10-year yield is right where it was before she spoke — and looking like a coin flip on which direction it may break. The pain is lower, so it will probably go lower.

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As for Kuroda, he did indeed steal the show, at least in terms of market impact.  On Saturday, Kuroda hit the wires saying its negative rate policy was far from reaching the limit and said they would act with more QE or deeper negative rates “without hesitation.”  That’s a greenlight for buying Japanese stocks and selling the yen (buying USD/JPY).

The Nikkei is up 1.5% from Friday’s close, and USD/JPY is up 2.7% (yen down).

Was Kuroda telegraphing another big round of fresh QE (as Bernanke did in 2012)?  Maybe.  He said inflation remains vulnerable in Japan and is responding “differently” (i.e. worse) to shocks like falling oil prices.

Inflation in Japan, even after rounds of unprecedented QE, is back in negative territory and has been for five consecutive months of year-over-year deflation.   The U.S. economy looks like its running hot compared to Japan.  It’s not a bad bet to expect Japan to act first, with more QE, to pump asset prices, and then the Fed would have a little more breathing room to make another hike (either December) or early next year.

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August 25, 2016, 4:00pm EST

Tomorrow is the big annual Fed conference in Wyoming.  It typically draws the world’s most powerful central bankers.  This is where, in 2012, Bernanke telegraphed a round three of its quantitative easing program.

The economy was still shaky following the escalating sovereign debt crisis in Europe, which had taken Spain and Italy to the brink of default.  Draghi and the ECB stepped in first, in late July and made the big “whatever it takes” promise.  This is where he threatened to crush the bond market speculators that had run yields up in the government bond markets of Spain and Italy to economic failure levels.  He threatened to take the other side of that trade, to whatever extent necessary, in effort to save the future of the euro.  It worked.  He didn’t have to buy a single bond.  The bond vigilantes fled. Yields ultimately fell sharply.

But just a month after Draghi’s threat, it was uncertain at best, that it would work.  With that, and given the economies globally were still flailing, Bernanke hinted that more QE was coming at the August Jackson Hole conference.

The combination of those to intervention events ignited global stocks, led by U.S. stocks.  The S&P 500 is up 55% from the date of Bernanke’s speech and the climb has been a 45 degree angle.

This time, this Jackson Hole, things are a bit more confusing, if that’s possible.  The BOJ, ECB and BOE are QE’ing.  The Fed has been going the other way.  But in the past six months, they’ve backstepped big time.

The hawk talk went quite for a while earlier this year.  Even Bernanke has written that the Fed has shot itself in the foot by publishing an optimistic trajectory and timeline for normalizing rate. It has resulted in an effect that has felt like a rate tightening, without them having to act.  That’s the exact opposite of they want.  They want to hike to restore some more traditional functioning of the financial system, but they don’t want to slow down economic activity.  It doesn’t normally work that way, and it hasn’t worked that way.

So now we have Yellen speaking tomorrow, and people are looking for answers.  We have some Fed members now wanting to dial back on public projections, as to not continue to negatively influence economic activity (Bernanke’s advice) and others getting in front of camera’s and telling us that a September hike might be in the cards.

But while everyone is looking to Yellen for clarity (don’t expect it), the show might be stolen by another central banker.  Haruhiko Kuroda, head of the Bank of Japan, will be in Jackson Hole too.  The agenda is not yet out so we don’t know if he’s speaking.  But he could conjure up some Bernanke style QE3.  Not a bad bet to be long USD/JPY and dollar-denominated Nikkei through the weekend (ETFs, DBJP or DXJ).  Full disclosure: We’re long DBJP in our Billionaire’s Portfolio.

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June 2, 2016, 3:25pm EST

In the middle of June we have perhaps the two biggest events of the year. On June 15 the Fed will decide on rates. And hours later, that Wednesday night, the Bank of Japan will follow with its decision on policy.

This is really the perfect scenario for the Fed. The biggest impediment in its hiking cycle/”rate normalization process” is instability in global financial markets. Market reactions can lead to damage to consumer sentiment, capital flight and tightening in credit—all the things that can spawn the threat of a global economic shock, which can derail global recovery. Clearly, they are very sensitive to that. On that note, the Brexit risk, while a hot topic in the news, is priced by experts as a low probability.

So, the Fed has been setting expectations that a second hike in its tightening cycle could be coming this month. But the market isn’t listening. The market is pricing in just a 23% chance of a hike in June. But as we’ve said, markets can get it wrong, sometimes very wrong. We think they have it wrong this time. We think there is a much better chance. Why? Because they know the BOJ is right behind them. If they do hike, any knee jerk hit to financial markets can be quelled by more easing from the BOJ.

Remember, as we’ve discussed quite a bit in our daily notes, central banks remain in control. The recovery was paid for by a highly concerted effort by the world’s top economic powers and central banks. And despite the perceived hostility over currency manipulation, the powers of the world understand that the U.S. is leading the way out of recovery, and that Europe and Japan are critical pieces in the global recovery. The ECB and BOJ have been passed the QE torch from the Fed to both fuel recovery and promote global economic stability. And playing a major role in that effort is a weaker euro and a weaker yen.

The Bank of Japan is operating with one target in mind, create inflation. Now three years into their massive program, they haven’t posted a positive monthly inflation number since December. Inflation is still dead, just as it has been for the past two decades. So, not only do they have the appetite and global support to do more, but the data more than justifies more action.

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May 27, 2016, 11:40am EST

As we head into the Memorial Day weekend, we want to talk today about the G7 meeting that took place this week Japan, and how these meetings tend to effect financial markets (namely the key barometer for global markets in this environment, U.S. stocks).  It’s a big effect.

If we look back at the past seven annual meetings of world leaders, there is clearly a direct correlation between their messaging and the resulting performance of stocks.

For context, we’re talking about a period, from 2009-present, that has been driven by intervention and careful confidence massaging by global policymakers.  So it shouldn’t be surprising that coming out of these meetings, post-Lehman, things happen.

Let’s take a look at the chart of the S&P 500 and highlight the spots where a G7 meeting wrapped up (note:  this was actually the G8 prior to 2014, when Russia was ousted from the group).

Source: Reuters, Billionaire’s Portfolio

If you bought stocks following the meeting in Italy, in 2009, you’ve made a lot of money.  The next year, in Canada, same result.  Of course, the world was in very bad shape at the time, and the messaging from both meetings was unambiguously focused on the economy, restoring stability and growth.

By May of 2011, the message was that the recovery was becoming “self sustaining” (a positive tone).  Stocks didn’t push higher, and then fell back later in the year when the European debt crisis spread to Italy, Spain and France.

In 2012, the meeting was hosted in the Washington D.C.  The European debt crisis was at peak crisis.  Greece exiting the euro was on the table and it was stoking fear that Italy and Spain were next to crumble and destroy the European Monetary Union.  The first line of the communiqué was about Europe and the need for economic stimulus.  Stocks went higher and two months later, ECB head Mario Draghi further fueled stocks by stepping in and averting disaster in Europe by saying they would do “whatever it takes” to save the euro.

In 2013, G7 leaders, plus Russia met in the UK.  The second statement in the 33 page communiqué focused on economic uncertainty and promoting growth and jobs. Stocks went higher.

In 2014, the meeting was hosted by the European Union.  Russia had been ousted earlier in the year from the G8 for break of international law for its actions in Ukraine. The primary focus was on Russia and promoting freedom and democracy.  The tone on the economy was somewhat upbeat. Stocks went up for a few weeks and then ultimately fell back later in the year in a sharp correction/then sharp recovery.

In 2015, Germany hosted.  The communiqué led with a focus on the refugee crisis.  Stocks followed a similar path to 2014.

Finally, today the 2016 meetings concluded in Japan.  The focus was on the economy.  “Global growth remains moderate and below potential, while risks of weak growth persist.”  And they discuss rising geo-political conflicts as a further burden on the global economy.

So if we look back at these meetings, clearly there is a G7 (G8) effect. If the headline focus is the economy, it tends to be very good for stocks.

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