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28 Sep 2023

Cash now earns more than the S&P 500 by the largest margin in 23 years

Source: TME, Bloomberg

28 Sep 2023

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT DE-EUROIZATION ?

Based on SWIFT international payments, we are witnessing 'de-euroization' and not 'dedollarization. The euro's share in SWIFT global payments has dropped to 23% from 38% at the start of the year. Are Russia's SPFS and China's CIPS eating up the euro? Meanwhile, China's share in SWIFT payments reached an all-time high of 3.47% in August. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

28 Sep 2023

Consumer balance sheets are getting stretched

Accumulating debt during a low interest rates environment is one thing. But in light of the continuous surge of the price of money, the US consumer is probably starting to feel the pain Source: Crescat Capital, Bloomberg

28 Sep 2023

The gap between oil and 10 year breakevens is huge...

Does it mean that the market sees higher oil prices as a "growth killer" and thus disinflationary at some stage? Source chart: TME, Refinitiv

28 Sep 2023

“Soft Landing” is still the consensus. But consensus doesn’t have a good track record...

Source: Game of Tardes

28 Sep 2023

Sentiment among consumers in Germany keeps deteriorating as persistently high inflation encourages people to save & blots out chances of a recovery before year-end

GfK German Consumer Sentiment Index drops to -26.5 in Oct from -25.6 in Sep. An indicator BELOW 0 signals YoY contraction in private consumption. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

26 Sep 2023

Zero Day Options (0DTE) now account for half of total SP500 options volume

Source: Barchart

25 Sep 2023

First time in 2023 that ElectionBettingOdds has had Trump in the lead

Source: Bespoke

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