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14 Aug
Good Morning!
All eyes on the U.S. consumer this week as Home Depot, Target, and Walmart report earnings and July retail sales data drops. With consumer spending making up +70% of the U.S. economy, dissecting this data is crucial for uncovering hints of an incoming recession.
Prices as of 4 pm EST, 8/11/23
@LizAnnSonders
š While last weekās CPI print was cooler than expected, upstream prices proved stickier in July. Headline and core producer prices came in above Wall Street consensus with each rising by 0.3% last month (vs. +0.2% est). They were the sharpest monthly increases since January and November, respectively. On an annual basis (shown above), headline prices increased by 0.8% (vs. +0.7% est) while core rose by 2.4% (vs. 2.3% est). Driving the index higher were services costs which saw their largest monthly increase since August 2022. The bulk of those gains, however, came from a 7.6% surge in prices for portfolio management, which can largely be explained by the stock marketās big recent gains. Good prices, meanwhile, rose only modestly (excluding food and energy).
Goldman Sachs, @isabelnet_sa
āļø When will the Fed begin cutting interest rates? The answer to that question depends on who you ask. Odds provided by CME Group show traders are placing the highest chances of a cut in May of next year. Economists at Goldman Sachs agree, expecting the first rate cut will be delivered in Q2 2024. Across the Street, JPMorgan doesnāt see Powell & Co. cutting rates until the second half of 2024. Next door, Morgan Stanley is more optimistic, predicting the first reduction in rates to arrive in Q1. Something most investors can agree on: the Fed will pause at its upcoming meeting on September 20.
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Monday: Consumer inflation expectations
Tuesday: Retail sales, NY Empire State Manufacturing Index, Import/Export prices, business inventories, API stocks change
Wednesday: Building permits, housing starts, industrial production, FOMC minutes
Thursday: Philadephia Fed Manufacturing Index, jobless claims, CB Leading Index
Friday: Baker Hughes rig count
Topdown Charts
š» What can leveraged ETFs tell us about the overall investor outlook? So far in 2023, assets under management (AUM) for leveraged long ETFs have been rising steadily. At the same time, AUM for leveraged short ETFs have modestly declined. This combination points to bullish positioning among investors. That trend has recently reversed, however, with flows now gravitating to short ETFs as stocks experience a pullback/possible correction. Confirming the recent trend are ETF volumes, which have recently spiked in favor of bearish funds (shown above).
Financial Times
š§µ Remember Threads? As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg hash out the details of their (increasingly unlikely) cage match, the battle between Twitter and Threads looks to have a clear winner already. After gaining 100 million users in the 5 days following its launch (something which took Twitter 5 years to do), Threads shattered download records and had talking heads prematurely calling for Twitterās funeral. Over the past 3 weeks, however, DAUs at Threads have plunged by ~80%, falling to just 11 million. Twitter, meanwhile, saw DAUs increase slightly over the same period to nearly 120 million. Pardon the pun, but it appears as though Threads isā¦unraveling.
š¢ļø The number of US oil and natural gas rigs in operationāa proxy for future outputāfell for the 5th consecutive week. The total rig count dropped from 659 to 654, the lowest since March 2022. It was the 14th drop in 15 weeks. The number of oil rigs remained steady after falling for 8 straight weeks but remains at its lowest since March 2022 at 525 rigs, while the number of gas rigs (123) is at its lowest since February 2022. Meanwhile, the recovery in oil continues with prices hitting a fresh YTD high last week.
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The Transcript
šĀ What weāre watching today:
SU Suncor
ROIV Roivant
MNDY Monday.com
ERJ Embraer
FTRE Fortrea
SLRN Acelyrin
RUM Rumble
GETY Getty Images
Yield curve clues: Wall Street is becoming more confident the US can avoid a recession.
Takeover class action: Credit Suisse shareholders plan to sue the lender over its UBS takeover.
AI race: Amazon is developing custom microchips for generative AI to compete with Microsoft and Google in the space.
Labor supply: The previously Covid-affected labor supply has returned to pre-pandemic levels.
Red flag: One of Chinaās largest private wealth managers has raised alarms after missing payments on high-yield investment products.
Food budgets: Supermarkets and restaurants are revamping meals, expanding menus, and offering discounts to attract consumers amid high prices.
Smells fishy: Deloitte has resigned as auditor for Adani Ports, Gautam Adaniās logistics unit.
SBF jailed: A US judge has sent Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over alleged witness tampering.
Steel M&A: US Steel has rejected a +$7 billion takeover offer from Cleveland-Cliffs.
Healthcare tech: Exor has acquired a 15% stake in Royal Philips for ~$2.82 billion.
Wireless stake: Mastercard is taking a minority stake in Africaās biggest wireless carrier, MTN Group.
Mortgage tech: Intercontinental Exchangeās $12 billion takeover of Black Knight could transform the $12 trillion US mortgage market.
Arm IPO: SoftBank is in talks to acquire the remaining 25% stake in Arm from Vision Fund 1.
When the finance team meets the marketing guy
— Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. (@ParikPatelCFA)
Aug 13, 2023
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Sources:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-13/goldman-pencils-in-first-fed-rate-cut-for-second-quarter-of-2024?srnd=premium
https://www.chartstorm.info/p/weekly-s-and-p500-chartstorm-13-august
https://www.ft.com/content/330d8771-7b0e-40e3-8574-b5b6921a4486
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