Macro Dragon WK # 36: Post Jackson Hole, US NFP Fri, Final PMIs Month-End, Afghanistan-End? Macro Dragon WK # 36: Post Jackson Hole, US NFP Fri, Final PMIs Month-End, Afghanistan-End? Macro Dragon WK # 36: Post Jackson Hole, US NFP Fri, Final PMIs Month-End, Afghanistan-End?

Macro Dragon WK # 36: Post Jackson Hole, US NFP Fri, Final PMIs Month-End, Afghanistan-End?

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Kay Van-Petersen

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Macro Dragon WK # 36: Post Jackson Hole, US NFP Fri, Final PMIs Month-End, Afghanistan-End?


Top of Mind…

  • TGIM & welcome to WK #36…
  • First up, Afghanistan remains top of mind, not just due to Kabul Blast last wk, Macro Strike: Afghanistan Airport blast kills over 70 people, including 12 US Service Members, Biden on the tape... yet the sub 2 days deadline for US to exit the country based upon their agreement with the Taliban.
  • KVP will not weigh in on the finger pointing, linear analysis & generally arm-chair expert / keyboard warriors posturing around this… he will flag two key things to watch out for this wk.
  • One: Wed, Sep 1 - Please join us next week when we set up a one of a kind webinar on Afghanistan: Return of the Taliban with Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Mr. Hugo Llorens, alongside our always excellent CIO & Chief Strategist Steen Jakobsen, who will be hosted by Lester Chan, Greater China Head of Wealth Management.
  • So do please sign up, we’ve pulled the stops to make this as global as possible across our many clients, offices & time-zones: It will be 2000 SGT, 1400 CET, 0800 ET.
  • Two: Macro Reflections & thought piece on the entire set of events & parameters.
  • Month-end wk, means things could get noisy from a flow perspective across asset classes – so full settlement of Jackson Hole will likely not be clear until next wk Tues – as both the US & CA are out on Mon for Labor day.
  • And of course, if that was not enough, we got final PMIs on Fri & more importantly for Macro & thoughts around the Fed, NFPs. 750K is was is currently expected, if we get a banger of a number, read +1M… we could once again see a tidy reversal of the moves we saw last Fri. If we get in-line, probably not much of an effect… if we get a big miss, sub 500K… then we could see quite a healthy extension of where we closed last wk.
  • It worth noting the big moves last wk from +13% on Brent, to +4.4% on silver, +5% on the Russell, etc… were a big reversal from the previous wk. So once again, unless your US Big Cap equities (S&P, Nas-100)… you’ve just been range bound for months.  
  • Jackson Hole - rightly or wrongly - was taken as Risk-On Disco Party by markets, with EQ & CMDs up, volatility/yields/USD down - a big chunk which was reversing the previous wks move that saw risk-off across assets. Powell is still in the transitory inflation camp. The previous link is to the actual recorded speech, the transcript can be found here
  • With the next Fed meeting on Sep 22, now likely seen as just a set-up for Nov 3 – post this wk, attention will fully get back to this $3.5T infra bill.
  • From the Asia Pacific, CH & HK equities are still far from our of the clear & the monthly + wkly closes are going to be key to see if we continue to consolidate around the bottom here, break out to new highs, or go from oversold to another -5% to -10% lower. Sentiments continues to be super poor, bearish, with no bull in sight.
  • SG has hit +80% of the population being fully vaccinated, which makes us on the Dragon continue to like upside in SGD especially vs. EUR, SEK, JPY & even tactically vs. AUD, USD & NZD. Sydney continues to make new record highs in Covid cases, which likely means the restrictions are not coming off anytime soon (RS & GDP due this wk for AU).
  • Oh & our long NOKSEK 0.9915 continues to do well – loving the price confirmation.

  • The "easy" move is to 1.02/1.03… this puppy was +1.05 pre-Covid. From these 99c lvls (initially flagged this at 97c), KVP would have a wide stop to at least 96c (its a volatility cross with NOK getting a beating on risk-off market moves), with tgts set at 1.02, 1.04 & +1.06. Would have the usual dynamic risk-management of the rubber band stop (i.e. first tgt hit, stop moved to entry, 2nd tgt hit, stop moved to 1st tgt, etc). In addition to chart & price confirmation, the key rationale here is divergence in both inflation & monetary policy in Norway vs. Sweden with Norges bank set to hike in their Sep 23 mtg, whilst the Riksbank is likely on hold for years to come - with inflation in Sweden continuing to lag their Norwegian neighbors.  Key risks are; obviously Norges Bank pulling at RBNZ & blinking before an anticipated hike, falling inflation & growth in Norway, more hawkish Riksbank & spike in PCI in Sweden, general big risk-off in mkts & in particular energy which would weigh heavy on the NOK. 


     

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