On Fx (Krasting)

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

I’ve been running a short EURUSD for the past six weeks. I got in at 1.2650 on June 30, and doubled up on July 8 at 1.2260. I was delighted to see the Euro get cheap in Friday’s trading, but the market action forced a decision. I wrote some things down on a pad, thought about it a bit, and said, “Screw it”, and cut the whole position. Some of my thinking:

I hate trading FX at the end of July . The markets shut down with the approaching European August vacations. The last week of the month is about cleaning up positions, not putting new ones on. August is never a time to be involved, unless you have to.

There was something odd about the EURUSD trading Monday through Thursday. Tyler Durden, at Zero Hedge, made note of this.

The red arrows that Tyler drew bother me. This stinks of “official guidance”. It’s tough to make a buck at the FX casino, it’s tougher still when the tables are rigged.

In May and June the Swiss National Bank (SNB) bought CHF 110Bn worth of Euro’s. That’s a staggering amount. I’m convinced that the intervention was heavy in July as well. Reserves are headed up another CHF50Bn. I think these numbers still understate what is happening, as the SNB has been writing calls on the Franc.

In the course of just three months ¼ Trillion Euros have crossed into the Alps. This is unsustainable. At some point it will have to result in a messy blow up. But not necessarily in the month of August.

I don’t think the SNB is going to fold its cards just because they are under attack. If the SNB were to quit intervening, the EURCHF would be nearing par in a matter of days. The cost to the SNB would be CHF40Bn (15% of GDP).

Before taking a loss of this magnitude, the SNB, (with the blessings of the government), would implement a variety of exchange controls. I think this is a something that could come sooner than the market believes.

It is my understanding that there is significant macro hedge fund positioning in the EURCHF. I don’t believe that the SNB is going to simply write a monster check to some fat cats up in Greenwich. There will be (at least) one more chapter in this story.

Should there be something that makes people blink on the CHF, it could end up causing short positions in the EURUSD to get jumpy. I’d rather not be part of a jumpy crowd.

I’m worried about what Bernanke may do on August 1st. We could see something that brings the US negative short-term interest rates. (My thoughts on this). It’s very difficult for me to be a dollar bull. I’m much more comfortable playing the dollar from the short side.

The Euro weakness on Friday was related to a big selloff in Spanish bonds. The Spanish ten-year ended up at 7.27%. This means that a Spanish bailout is not far off and Italy is next in the crosshairs.

Really? I don’t think so. It’s not going to be that easy.

The Euro technocrats are not going to fold in August. They may be going down, but I fear more battles are in the offing first. SMP purchases of sovereign debt is likely next week.

Realized gains have been elusive for me this year.

Now that I don’t have a position to worry about, I’m worried about not having a position. I will be looking for an opportunity to re-load a short Euro exposure. Hopefully it will be at higher levels than Friday. Either way, I will act before September rolls in. The Euro is still toast.

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Global PMI: The Trend is Your Friend

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

by Frank Holmes, CEO, CIO, U.S. Global Investors

Manufacturing around the world weakened in June, according to the JP Morgan Global Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). Its reading of 48.9 was the lowest in three years and the first dip below 50 since September 2011. The current reading is also below the three-month moving average for the second month in a row. As you can see on the chart, PMI crossed below the three-month in May.

While Europe, China and the U.S. were primarily responsible for the slowed activity, we believe the trend is your friend. In April, global PMI crossed above the three-month moving average, and historically, when a “cross-above” has happened, it’s signaled higher prices for many commodities. Take a look at the chart below which shows the following:

Ninety percent of the time, copper rose 10 percent over the following three months. Eighty-five percent of the time, West Texas Intermediate oil has also increased. Its median three-month change has been an increase of 11 percent.

Materials and energy were also positively affected, with modest results: When the PMI crosses above the three-month average, 70 percent of the time, the S&P 500 Materials Index rose, with a median return of about 3 percent. The S&P 500 Energy Index had a median three-month return of about 5 percent, with an 80 percent chance of the three-month change being positive.

Using history as a guide, this suggests that by the end of July, we could see strength in these commodities and energy and materials stocks. Although volatility and uncertainty rule the markets these days, we believe that the world’s central bankers are taking note of slowed activity and will act if deemed necessary.

The trend is your friend only if your portfolio is “resourceful” enough to benefit. Read the Financial Planning article, which showed how U.S. Global Investors’ Global Resources Fund strengthened a diversified portfolio over the past 10 years. Read the article.

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The Purchasing Manager’s Index is an indicator of the economic health of the manufacturing sector. The PMI index is based on five major indicators: new orders, inventory levels, production, supplier deliveries and the employment environment. The S&P 500 Energy Index is a capitalization-weighted index that tracks the companies in the energy sector as a subset of the S&P 500. The S&P 500 Materials Index is a capitalization-weighted index that tracks the companies in the material sector as a subset of the S&P 500.

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Jim Grant on Bernanke’s Continuing “Grand Manipulation”

Thursday, June 7th, 2012

In preparation for what we are about to receive from the Charmain of the Fed, may we be truly grateful, Jim Grant offered CNBC’s Maria B the forthright advice last night “prepare for platitudes but watch what they are doing not what they are saying”. The ever outspoken Grant notes that the Fed’s balance sheet has been contracting (unlike Maria’s mainstream perspective); for the past three months the Fed’s balance sheet has contracted at an annualized rate of 10% – even as Fed-head after Fed-head talk up QE and so on. So unless they continue buying securities – since the short-dated positions will continue to roll off – the Fed’s balance sheet will continue to contract and therefore the stimulative effect will fall. Grant does expect QE3 since it is the fun-drug that we have been using for 4 or 5 years and that Bernanke will need little pushing to continue the Grand Manipulation. He ends on a rather interesting note that the Wisconsin win and the potential for an Obama loss in November may be more of a positive driver for stocks since markets begin to revert to a free market once again – we suspect this is not the case given the donors/beneficiaries under Romney’s wing. But rest assured – the bespectacled bear ends on the chilling note that ‘the long-term implications are bad’ for the ongoing manipulation that is now the status quo.

and from Goldman, if there was any doubt of Grant’s comments on the implicit tightening – or inverse flow – as they present the embedded tightening opportunity cost for the Fed it does nothing.

The bottom line here is that if the Fed does nothing then there is an implicit 5-10bps of rate-hike tightening per quarter implicit in the balance sheet roll-down (50bps in next 3 years) – so when considering the Fed’s actions, discount the effect of this automatic tightening before buying the S&P at 2000…

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The Three-Part Case for Commodities (Koesterich)

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

With both gold and broader commodity indices down significantly month to date, many investors are asking if they should lower or even remove their commodity exposure. I believe the answer is no.

First, it’s useful to put the recent weakness in perspective. Both gold and a broad basket of commodities are down roughly 10% over the past three months. While the losses represent a significant correction, they are in line with the performance of equity markets over the same time period. Even more importantly, here are three reasons for maintaining a strategic exposure to commodities.

1.) Diversification: Commodities typically behave differently from paper assets like stocks and bonds even as correlations between all risky assets have risen in recent years. In fact, based on historic relationships, it doesn’t take a large allocation to commodities – it typically takes less than 10% – to improve the risk-adjusted returns of a strategic portfolio.

2.) Inflation: Commodities tend to perform best when inflation is rising. As I mentioned last week, while I see little risk of double-digit inflation in the near-term, inflation is not completely dead. Core inflation in the United States is rising at 2.3% year over year, a 3 ½-year high. Given the US fiscal position and the unconventional nature of recent monetary policy, there is a non-trivial risk that we may see more than 2.3% inflation over the next decade. Over the long term, even modest inflation would erode purchasing power. Commodities can offer an effective hedge against this scenario.

3.) Potential tailwind from monetary policy: While commodities have suffered recently, the performance hasn’t been awful. The S&P Goldman Commodities Index is down roughly 5% year to date. Meanwhile, gold was up around 2% through the end of last week, returns that still compare favorably with most equity markets outside of the United States.

One reason for the resilience, as I’ve written before, is that commodities and gold generally benefit when real interest rates are negative. In such a rate environment, there’s no opportunity cost for holding commodities, and commodity returns tend to be higher. At least historically, the level of real interest rates has been far more important to commodity returns than either inflation or the dollar. In fact, over the past twenty years, the variation in real interest rates explains roughly 60% of the variation in the annual return of gold. To the extent the Fed, and most other major central banks, are determined to keep real rates negative for the foreseeable future, we’ll be in an environment supportive of commodities, particularly gold.

To be sure, commodity prices are likely to remain volatile – along with just about every other risky asset – in the near term as investors worry about the potential for a disorderly default by Greece impacting the global economy. However, for investors, especially those currently underweight commodities, now may very well be a good long-term buying opportunity (potential iShares solution: NYSEARCA: IAU).

Russ Koesterich, CFA is the iShares Global Chief Investment Strategist and a regular contributor to the iShares Blog. You can find more of his posts here.

Source: Bloomberg

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Tags: Amp, Commodities, Commodity Indices, Core Inflation, Correlations, Diversification, Fiscal Position, Goldman, Monetary Policy, Nbsp, Paper Assets, Purchasing Power, Resilience, Risk Adjusted Returns, Risky Assets, Same Time Period, Stocks And Bonds, Tailwind, Term Inflation, Three Months
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Outlook for U.S. Small Businesses Improves

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

This post is a guest contribution by Asha Bangalore, vice president and economist of The Northern Trust Company.

The Small Business Optimism Index moved up to 93.8 during December from 92 in the prior month. The improvement is noteworthy and it is the highest since February 2011. However, the level of the index is within the range seen during the recession (see Chart 1).

Of the sub-indexes, the percentage of respondents indicating that poor sales have been problematic declined to 23% in December vs. 25% in the previous month. Further reductions of this component of the survey would point to a turnaround in business conditions.

Among other highlights of the survey, only 8.0% reported credit is harder to get, one of the lowest readings for the year (see Chart 3). Somewhat contradicting the December employment report is the fact that only 1.0% of respondents indicated that they increased employment in the last three months. Overall, the December report on small businesses records more positives than negatives.

Source: Asha Bangalore, Northern Trust – Daily Economic Commentary, January 10, 2011.

Tags: Business Conditions, Business Optimism, Economic Commentary, Economist, Employment Report, Further Reductions, Indexes, Northern Trust Company, Outlook, Recession, Respondents, Small Business, Small Businesses, Three Months, Turnaround, Vice President
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Will the US be Importing Deflation? (Econompic Data)

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Bloomberg details:

The import-price index climbed 0.7 percent, the first increase in four months and followed a 0.5 percent drop in October, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. Economists projected the gauge would increase 1 percent, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey. Prices excluding fuel decreased 0.2 percent for a second month, the first back-to-back drop in more than a year.

Oil prices may have reached a plateau this month, indicating increases in the cost of imported goods may moderate as slowing growth from Europe to Asia and a strengthening dollar hold down prices. Federal Reserve policy makers yesterday said they expected inflation to slow and reiterated their pledge to hold the benchmark rate “exceptionally low” at least through mid-2013.

The below chart outlines the longer term trend in imported inflation. Over the past three months, the price of imported goods (excluding petroleum) has declined for only the third time since 2005 (six month figure is now flat), while the twelve month change is turning lower (below 4%) after it peaked at over 5% as recently as September.

Source: BLS

Tags: Asia, Benchmark Rate, Bloomberg News, Economists, Europe, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Policy, Four Months, Gauge, Import Price Index, inflation, Labor Department, Oil Prices, Petroleum, Plateau, Pledge, Term Trend, Third Time, Three Months
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Intel (INTC) Golden Cross Imminent (Bespoke)

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

by Bespoke Investment Group

Intel (INTC) has been on a tear lately, enough so that it’s about to experience a “golden cross,” which occurs when a stock’s 50-day moving average crosses above its 200-day moving average while both moving averages are rising.  A six-month chart of Intel is shown below with both its 50-day and 200-day moving average included.

The golden cross is supposed to be a positive technical formation, but it seems like it gets talked about much more often than it turns out to be right.  At any rate, below we highlight all of the golden crosses that Intel has experienced since 1985.

As shown, Intel has had 12 golden crosses over the last 26 years, with the last occurring on May 10th, 2007.  For Intel at least, the golden cross has worked out pretty well.  While its average change in the week after its prior 12 golden crosses has been -0.10% (median +0.48%), it has averaged a gain of 3.02% over the next month and 8.34% over the next three months, with positive returns occurring two-thirds of the time.

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How Severe Will A U.S. Economic Slowdown Be?

Friday, May 20th, 2011

The world is headed for an economic slowdown, according to the Economic Cycle Research Institute’s (ECRI) Long Leading Index of global industrial growth. Lakshman Achuthan, founder and managing director of the research center, said the US economy will not escape the downturn, but will ”participate in it … and in one way, shape or form, it is going to impact this recovery.” (Click here for an interview with Achuthan.)

I agree with him, as the ECRI Weekly Leading Index (WLI) smoothed annualized growth rate is rolling over, while the year-on-year growth of the Conference Board’s index of leading economic indicators continues to drift south.

Sources: Dismal Scientist; I-Net Bridge; Plexus Asset Management.

The question is to what extent, though.

The Conference Board’s index of leading indicators leads industrial production by approximately three months, but year-on-year growth of the Leading Indicators Index over the past three months indicates that year-on-year growth in industrial production of about 5% to July is already in the bag.

Sources: Dismal Scientist; I-Net Bridge; Plexus Asset Management.

The growth rate of the ECRI WLI also points to a slowdown, but it is very difficult to ascertain to what extent.

Sources: Dismal Scientist; I-Net Bridge; Plexus Asset Management.

I have argued all along that the US financial markets (bonds, stocks and metal prices) and labor are perhaps the largest components of the ECRI WLI. The success of the ECRI WLI as a leading index of the US economy therefore means that the market is quite successful in anticipating the state and prospects of the underlying economy. However, there are times when the market overreacts, only to return to normality afterwards. Examples are the last quarter of 2009 and the third quarter of last year – yes, the latter had many commentators calling for a double-dip recession!

Sources: Dismal Scientist; ISM; Plexus Asset Management.

To me the most important indicator of the short-term outlook for the US economy is my ISM GDP-weighted composite PMI (manufacturing and non-manufacturing), which also leads industrial production by approximately three months. Although the composite PMI has weakened somewhat over the past three months, it still indicates that year-on-year industrial production growth is likely to be maintained at approximately 5% until the end of July.

Sources: Dismal Scientist; ISM; Plexus Asset Management.

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Emerging Markets Cheat Sheet (January 10, 2011)

Sunday, January 9th, 2011

Emerging Markets Cheat Sheet (January 10, 2011)

Strengths

• Macau’s casino revenue surged 66 percent on a year-over-year basis in December to $2.4 billion, thanks to higher-than-average spending by an increasing number of tourists from mainland China.
• Taiwan’s consumer price index (CPI) unexpectedly slowed to 1.25 percent in December as food price increases moderated, down from 1.52 percent in November.
• Car sales in Brazil grew 16 percent in December, following an 8 percent increase in November. Even more impressive is the 30 percent increase on a year-over-year basis. The increase was brought about by low unemployment and availability of credit.
• Chile’s index of economic activity grew by 6.2 percent year-over-year in November versus an expectation of 5.3 percent.
• Walmex same-store-sales in December increased by 3.7 percent as revenue rose 24 percent for the year.
• Hungarian and Czech industrial output rose more than economists estimated in November on increased demand for the countries’ exports. Hungarian production advanced 14.5 percent from a year earlier, the fastest in three months. Czech output rose 15.9 percent, the most in six months.

Weaknesses

• China’s official manufacturing Purchasing Manager’s Index moderated to 53.9 in December from 55.2 in November. This was the first decline in four months as both new orders and employment deteriorated.
• Indonesia’s CPI rose a higher-than-expected 6.96 percent year-over-year in December. Rising prices for unprocessed foods, due to supply disruptions caused by rainy weather, pushed CPI to its fastest pace in 20 months.
• Poland cemented its position as a leader when it comes to the use of European funds, according to Gazeta Wyborcza. In 2010, the government spent 35.7 billion zloty, exceeding the EU’s annual budget by almost 9 billion zloty. Under this accelerated schedule, most of the 15 billion euro from assistance to Poland from 2007 to 2013 has already been spent.

Opportunities

• China plans to expand the length of its high-speed rail network from 8,358 kilometers (km) in 2010 to 16,000 km by 2015. The expansion of the entire national rail length, from 91,000 km to 120,000 km within the same timeframe, should bode well for construction materials such as steel and cement going forward.
• Starting from this year, China will expand the pilot program nationally to allow domestic exporters to keep foreign revenue in overseas banks, instead of conducting a mandatory exchange into the local currency with the Chinese central bank. This may help correct the longstanding automatic money creation mechanism by the central bank and boost operating efficiency of exporters, as the country’s foreign reserve gradually shifts to the private sector over the long term.
• Ukraine increased the size of the quota for wheat exports for March from 500,000 tons to 1 million tons and the quota for corn exports from 2 million tons to 3 million tons. This boosts Ukrainian agricultural companies that have eagerly awaited export licenses on the updated quotas.
• Romania’s leu may rise versus the euro in the first quarter after the country met the terms of its bailout loan and will probably secure a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) accord, ING’s Groep NV said.

Threats

• There are more signs that inflation is spreading across the emerging markets universe. Colombia’s CPI in December reached 0.65 percent month-over-month, versus the expected 0.3 percent. This brings the full year CPI to 3.2 percent. The Central Bank target was below 3 percent and the figure raises the prospect of interest rates tightening as early as the first quarter.
• Facing strong economic momentum and inflationary pressures of its own, Peru unexpectedly raised interest rates yesterday by 25 basis points to 3.25 percent.
• Poland may impose a special tax on banks as early as this year, setting up a rescue fund for lenders. Poland would follow Hungary, the only central European country to implement special taxes on selected industries, including finance, energy, retail and telecommunications.

Tags: Brazil, Car Sales, Casino Revenue, China Taiwan, Consumer Price Index, Currency, Decline, Disruptions, Economic Activity, Economists, Emerging Markets, energy, Expectation, Food Price, Four Months, Gazeta Wyborcza, Index Cpi, Mainland China, Purchasing Manager, Rainy Weather, S Casino, Three Months, Unprocessed Foods
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Bear Flattener in Treasuries Continues; Mortgage Rates Climb

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

click on chart for sharper image

The yield curve is flattening, in a bearish way. A Bull flattener would be when yields are dropping across the board with yields on the long end dropping more than the short end.

In this case, 5-year and 10-year yields are up about 45-50 basis points from the low just after QE II started, while yields on 30-year treasuries are up only about 30 basis point.

Daily Snapshot

You can see this easily in a daily snapshot from Bloomberg.

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As I have pointed out before, this action is not at all usual. It is an artifact of everyone front-running the Fed’s announcement of Quantitative Easing purchases, then selling the news.

Yields are higher across the board than in August when the Fed first hinted at another round of QE.

Mortgage Rates Climb

Curve Watchers Anonymous also points out that mortgage rates are on the rise

Mortgage rates are a quarter point higher than a month ago and back to where they were three months ago, even as housing slips further into the gutter. Please see Bernanke Claims QE II will Create 700,000 to 1 Million Jobs; Where? Mexico, Peru, China for more on mortgage applications and mortgage rates.

Mike “Mish” Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

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