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Macro Digest: False stabilisation and trade wars

Macro 5 minutes to read
Steen Jakobsen

Chief Investment Officer

Summary:  As Chinese trade war rhetoric becomes more strident the odds of a detente being reached at next month's G20 summit have shrunk to just 50/50. The upshot may be policy moves in the US and infrastructure development programmes in China.

• The G20 meeting in Japan is a very bad place to go looking for a trade deal between China and the US (the WTO is one of the main agenda points).
• The rhetoric change in China this week takes down our 75/25 for a deal odds to 50/50. Remember: Nothing happens in vacuum in China.
• Risk is our next “inflection point” expected in July/August could move forward to just past the G20 meeting on June 28/29.
• Policy response are likely to be lower Fed policy rates in the US, infrastructure spending in China combined with much lower RRR overall. China needs jobs, the US needs growth 
• XAUCNY is the trade to watch on RISK ON/OFF – we are now long XAUCNY.

Apart from the overall more negative tone coming from trade talks we also have a keen eye on the Iran vs US escalation we are seeing. The mobilisation of US forces is significant and I for one fail to see end game from this except of course from the obvious “deterrent" Cold War script.
Source: Bloomberg
Important links:

The G20 Summit  June 28-29.

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe's priorities for the Osaka Summit.

Dispute over the appointment of a WTO appellate body.

Tweets from Steen Jakobsen on the changing china rhetoric: here and here.

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