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31 Jul 2023

The SP500 is now 5% higher than where it was when the Fed started hiking rates in March 2022. $SPX

Source: Charlie Bilello

26 Jul 2023

The disconnect between Fed net liquidity (grey) and the S&P 500 (purple) is growing by the day

source: Markets & Mayhem

26 Jul 2023

The market has NO FEAR. Extremely little risk priced for the FOMC meeting.

Chart shows SPX 1 week implied volatility skew within one week of FOMC meetings. Source: TME, Nomura

24 Jul 2023

FED QT continues w/balance sheet dropped by $22.4bn past week.

It is 6th week in a row that total assets shrink. Fed more than leveled the increase in the wake of the banking crisis from March. Fed balance sheet now equal to 31% of US's GDP vs #ECB's 53%, SNB's 121%, BoJ's 128%. Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ

20 Jul 2023

M2 money supply has declined at the fastest rate ever recorded since the Fed began collecting data in 1959

Probably has helped cool inflation but could it usher in a new set of problems? Source: Fred, Barchart

14 Jul 2023

The NASDAQ (in yellow) has been massively decoupling from the FED balance sheet (in purple)

Source: The Market Ear, Refinitiv

14 Jul 2023

The sp500 is now 3% above the level it was at when The Fed first hiked #rates in March 2022...

The #sp500 is now 3% above the level it was at when The #Fed first hiked #rates in March 2022...

13 Jul 2023

The probability of a July 26 rate of 25 basis points to 5.25% to 5.50% barely moved

Despite the better-than-expected CPI report today, the probability of a July 26 rate of 25 basis points to 5.25% to 5.50% barely moved. The market is strongly expecting a hike in two weeks. Source: Jim Bianco

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