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Macro Dragon: Sake Mon, CPI + YCC = FOMC Mins

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Kay Van-Petersen

Global Macro Strategist

Summary:  Macro Dragon = Cross-Asset Daily Views that could cover anything from tactical positioning, to long-term thematic investments, key events & inflection points in the markets, all with the objective of consistent wealth creation overtime.


(These are solely the views & opinions of KVP, & do not constitute any trade or investment recommendations. By the time you synthesize this, things may have changed.)

Macro Dragon: Sake Mon Dinners, CPI + YCC = FOMC Mins

 

Top of Mind...

  • Sake Mondays: You ever have those mornings where you are working on everything & anything, EXCEPT what you should be working on… enter KVP on a Tue’s APAC morning… Culprit?! A Mon Sake infused dinner linked around helping a mate.

  • So, no executive decision this AM that’s for sure… KVP once took a year plus off drinking… thinking of doing a smaller stint…

  • Inflation + YCC = FOMC Minutes: Whilst also a bit of a theme in this wk’s economic data & as we covered in yest Dragon that preview’s the wk, it seems like its gaining more & more traction + focus. So clearly this – alongside YCC potential timing, WHEN not IF is a Dragon assumption here… as are eventual negative rates in the US – will be a key focus on the FOMC mins

  • Can appreciate the dichotomy with folks that are bearish duration & say yields will have to rise because of inflation… yes & no! Again remember the META REGIME we are in… the Fed – for now & for a lot longer that you think they can – controls the money game (US monetary policy is pretty much 2/3 of global monetary policy & its not like ECB & BoJ are hawks), if you are playing for a break of US10s to 1.0% you are betting against a +5-6 decade bull market in bonds & basically saying that the Fed cannot keep yields down.

  • To KVP that’s like getting into a ring with Tyson & saying, “he’s way past his prime… I reckon I can take him”. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuure you can… like a lot of trades & daily habits that folks have, it is not a positively convex trade…

  • If you feel very strongly about being short bonds & perhaps even have a reverse-KVP algo strategy called PVK… then at least get the structure right & do it through options, so you don’t have a potential trade blowing up on you. From the Dragon’s viewpoint never has the convexity of owning bonds been better, i.e. you are paid for protection & there is a ceiling on yields, but an abyss on how low they can get.

  • Yes inflation is a force that tends to raise yields, but the point here is the Fed is like both the JEDI & SITH Combined a much bigger force that will anchor yields & rates as low as they need to because of not just the current level of excessive debt in the system, but the exponential accumulation of debt to come. Wait until we get a Biden presidency & Warren as treasurer it will make the debt issued so far look like childs play.

  • So last point on this with US10s at 0.70%, KVP thinks we see 0.0% before we see 1.20%

  • For some other views pls see: The Fed is expected to make a major commitment to ramping up inflation soon

  • Gold 1985 +2.1%, Silver 27.49 +3.9% & precious metals complex: Back to getting our bullish groove & grind on… last week was just working out some kinks new ATHs in the works… KVP needs to do a calls spread piece on this… yet likely that will be a Sep

  • DXY 92.851 -0.26%: Folks USD is done, we are embarking on a US bearish regime that is going to leave folks gob smacked… even without a Fiscal Package being secured the USD cannot even stand firm… it is defunct Viagra.. diluted coffee… stale bread… amazing thing is its predominantly been the Euro that has benefitted from this.. so KVP seeing a lot of upside in Oil… loves some EM FX… BRLs, RUBs & MXN… are like sugar, spice & all things nice…

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To Keep In Mind Today

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