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24 Sep 2024

Buying a rental property in America is no longer profitable.

Because the current mortgage rate (6.1%) is significantly higher than the profit/cap rate (4.4%) of rentals. This means that any investor who uses debt to finance their purchase is likely losing money on cash flow from Day 1. Note how from 2012-2022, the opposite was true. Cap Rates were higher than mortgage interest. Which is why so many people piled into single-family rentals. This is no longer the case... Will the Fed jumbo rate cut start to fix this? Source: Nick Gerli, re:venture

24 Sep 2024

Now where it gets really funny is if China overstimulates and commodities go through the roof just a the time the Fed is starting to cut rates...

Source: zerohedge

20 Sep 2024

In case you missed it... While the german economy is struggling, the stock market doesn't care...

Germany's blue-chip index Dax jumped >19,000 points for the first time after Fed's jumbo rate cut. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

19 Sep 2024

BREAKING 🚨 The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates by 50 basis points in their first rate cut since March 2020

The long awaited "Fed pivot" has officially begun... By starting their monetarypolicy easing cycle with an aggressive 50 basis points rate cut it seems that the fed decided to focus on the labor market part of their dual mandate rather than the inflation one... Here's a summary of Fed decision: 1. Fed cuts interest rates by 50 bps for first time since 2020 2. Fed sees 2 more 25 basis point rate cuts in 2024 3.Fed governor Miki Bowman dissented in favour of a smaller 25 bps cut. It's the first dissent by a *governor* since 2005. 4. Fed gained "greater confidence" that inflation is moving to 2% 5. Fed will "carefully asses incoming data" and evolve outlook 6. Fed sees 100 bps of rate cuts in 2025 and 50 bps of cuts in 2026 This is a CLEAR Fed pivot and the Fed is signaling that they believe the disinflation trend remains in place but also that they now see making unemployment their top priority as the labor market has weakened. Their decision sounds almost like a risk management one. (Initial) Market reaction >>> -> The SP500 rises to a new all time high but the equity market reaction is rather mixed so far -> Yield curve steepens with a modest yield rise on the long-end -> The dollar weakens Gold and bitcoin slightly rise

19 Sep 2024

Live look at JP Morgan after being the only ones who correctly predicted a 50bps cut:

Source: Trend Spider

19 Sep 2024

Amazing to see the effect of 818K downward jobs revision on the fed dots...

Source: www.zerohedge.com

19 Sep 2024

Among the reasons why the Fed cut 50bps this week:

1) Inflation risk is LOWER than Employment and Consumer risk 2) The sticky component of inflation is shelter. For shelter inflation to go down we need to see more housing supply and for this we need to get lower mortgage rates = jumbo rate cut does help 3) They MUST get front-end rates lower as this colossal wall of debt matures (source: Lawrence McDonald, Bloomberg)

19 Sep 2024

gold after Fed rate cuts

Source: Incremetum AG

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