DXY is getting hosed as Fed hopes metastasise. EUR is on a moonshot:
AUD has jacknifed:
Oil looks ominous:
Base metals relief:
Big miners (NYSE:RIO) too, despite iron ore:
But EM (NYSE:EEM) is sitting this out entirely as the tyrant rises:
Treasuries were gobbled up:
But stock dumped anyway on tech earnings trouble:
Another bear market rally of sorts is underway. But the market’s hopes for a benign Fed has three very large problems.
First, growth in the US is booming:
Second, inflation nowcasts are super sticky above 5%:
Third, the more market rallies, the easier the FCI gets, making points one and two both stronger not weaker.
I am encouraged that bonds are rallying and stocks not so much. That is a change that is indicative of us being closer to end-of-cycle dynamics.
However, the Fed still has more work to do. A few weeks of warm weather in Europe to ease energy fears does not a winter make. And Chinese growth is getting worse by the minute.
I can’t see DXY topping persuasively until the threat of a Fed-induced market accident is gone and global growth shows promise of a rebound. That makes the last few days of intervention in JPY and CNY Pyrrhic at best.
For me, AUD is enjoying a relief rally with lower yet to come.