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23 Aug 2023

The last time US 10Y yields were this far above sp500 dividend yields was sept/oct 2007 (BNP Paribas funds liquidate, Fed slashes rates, market peaks...)

Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohedge.com

23 Aug 2023

S&P 500 to 10-year note ratio is going parabolic

Source: barchart, The Daily Shot

23 Aug 2023

How to analyze a 10-K

Source: Compounding Quality / Chris Quinn

23 Aug 2023

This is not the price chart of a meme stock going under or a "pump and dump" altcoin

This is the Austria AA+ 100 year bond being hammered by the rise of bond yields... The price of the 100 year Austrian government bond has plunged near all-time lows and is trading 72% below its All-Time-High. Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ

23 Aug 2023

Orange juice futures are trading like a meme stock! The surge is mainly driven by #supply driven (exarcebated by speculators positioning). The 2 supply issues are the following:

1/ Extreme weather intensified by global heating ravaged this season’s crop of the citrus fruit: last year Florida, which produces more than 90% of the US’s orange juice supply, was hit by Hurricane Ian, Hurricane Nicole and freezing conditions in quick succession, devastating orange producers in the Sunshine State. 2/ A bacterial disease -> Florida Producers battled an incurable citrus greening disease that is spread by an invasive insect, rendering fruit unusable. Most infected trees die within a few years, and some producers said they were giving up farming and selling their land. Industry figures said US orange production would reach its lowest level for more than a century. Source: The Guardian, Longview Economics

23 Aug 2023

Why this time is different (I know this is a dangerous sentence...)

Asset managers are very long 10-year futures, expecting yields to fall from here! This is a very different set-up than in 2007 when asset managers were expecting #yields to rise... Source: Bloomberg

23 Aug 2023

US equities: absolute & relative valuations offer a different perspective

•On the positive side, market (absolute) valuations have improved as stock prices have dipped and earnings have held up •On the negative side, the rise in bond yields imply a lower Equity Risk Premium (ERP), now at 39bps (19-year low), i.e equities are more expensive vs. bonds than at the start of the Summer... Source: Edward Jones, BofA

23 Aug 2023

The number of unicorns is plummeting

Since 2018, over 250 new unicorns have been minted each year, with the exception of 2021, when this number spiked to 787 – a rate of more than two unicorns per day. In 2022, new unicorn creation collapsed in 2022. Peak to trough there was a 90% drop in the new unicorn rate within five quarters. Just 21 new unicorns were created in Q1 2023. Source: Dealroom.co, TME

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