Getting cheaper...
Global stocks have lost another $1.5tn in mkt cap this week on still-elevated US 10y yields and on not good enough earnings results. All stocks now worth $98.2tn, less than global GDP. This means that the Buffett Indicator is once again below the critical level of 100. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg
''But the stock market is doing great!'' Well: are you sure? It all depends which index you are looking at
Source: Alfonso Peccatiello - The Macro Compass
Uranium narrative has made headlines again...Prices are now back above the levels seen before the Fukushima incident in March 2011...
Source: Game of trades
Quantitative tightening (QT) may have taken a backseat in recent months, but is still very much in vogue
Source: BofA, TME
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Here's an index that represents the median stock closing last week at the lowest levels in a year
Source: J-C Parets
The Fed's balance sheet hit its lowest level since June 2021 this week, down over $1 trillion from the peak in April 2022
Annual changes in the Fed's balance sheet since 2002... Source: Charlie Bilello
US Treasuries were bid this week due to the search of "safe havens" on the back of Middle East turmoil
However, ugly auctions on Thursday came as a harsh remainder of the unfavourable supply/demand situation faced by US Treasuries. On the supply side, there is a tsunami of notes and bonds that is going to flood the market. And it is occurring while the Fed, under its QT program, is letting about $60 billion a month in maturing Treasury securities roll off the balance sheet without replacement. With the Fed reducing its holdings, that tsunami of notes and bonds being issued will have to find buyers, and those buyers will have to be enticed by yields. Unless inflation and growth slow down meaningfully, yields are unlikely to drop aggressively. Source: www.wolfstreet.com, Bloomberg
