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June 3, 2014
IN THIS ISSUE
While we were sleeping
Where Americans are offered (and where they are not)
Update on a Commitment of Traders report
Third time’s a attract for a May ISM
Construction spending plain to start Q2
Bank lending gaining some-more momentum
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
In sheer contrariety to yesterday during this time, tellurian equities are underneath some offered pressure. Most of Europe is down anywhere from 0.2% to 0.4% (a whole lot of ECB easing evidently was labelled in with a 2% burst in May), nonetheless Asia was some-more churned to certain — a Japanese Nikkei index was adult again (+98 points or 0.7% to 15,034), a Hang Seng rallied 0.9%, a Korean Kospi index rose 0.3% to a five-month high, and a Indian Sensex index firmed 0.7% to a new record high (the executive bank cut a liquidity ratio for banks today), nonetheless China was prosaic (though a H-shares peaked 1.2%) and Australia and Singapore were in a red column. Overall, a Asia-Pac segment sealed aloft to a best spin in 7 months today, with 8 of 10 attention groupings in a immature column.
There is some service stemming from a latest data-flow out of China display a slack branch to expansion fortitude — a non- prolongation PMI rose to 55.5 in May from 54.8 in April, as an instance (and follows a news that a executive prolongation PMI edged adult to a five-month high of 50.8 in May). As such, a sidestep supports are now reportedly shutting their brief bets on Emerging Market equities (as per Bears Pull Out of Emerging Markets Amid Four-Month Gain in today’s Bloomberg News).
Core emperor bond markets are fast — not benefitting from a slippage in euro area equities — even nonetheless we got news that acceleration in a Eurozone slipped final month to a five-year low of +0.5% from +0.7% in Apr (consensus was +0.6%). The core rate plunged from +0.9% to a shockingly low +0.6% rate.
U.K. gilt yields have indeed jumped 4 basement points to 2.65% — and now trade about a full 10 basement points above allied U.S. Treasuries — on reports that U.K. home prices are spiraling upwards as per a just-released Nationwide information for May: +0.7% MoM and +11.2% on a YoY basement to record-high levels (not even a U.S. is tighten to that usually yet) in what is a hottest genuine estate marketplace given a burble rise of Jun 2007 (Mark Carney left one housing burble in Canada to assistance emanate another one in Britain). Sterling is rallying on this news — can a 0.5% process rate unequivocally be postulated in this item acceleration backdrop?
The plea for a ECB is how to take a corner off a still-overvalued euro — it is already down about 4 full sum on a ‘talk’, nonetheless during 1.36 contra a U.S. dollar it still has during slightest 15 sum to go a downside usually to strike a fair-value line (this will need a Draghi ‘walk’ that would finally stifle a deflation vigour … this worked in Japan and Canada, as an aside). The fact that a euro has usually damaged next a 200-day relocating normal for a initial time in 10 months — now during a three-month low conflicting a greenback — is a step in a right instruction and a fact that a 50-day relocating normal is rolling over provides sum technical acknowledgment that a euro is on a down-escalator for some time to come.
Not all is lost, however, as German new automobile registrations were usually expelled and showed a decent +5.2% YoY expansion rate; and a euro area jobless rate fell to 11.7% on Apr from 11.8% and 12% a year ago, that might be painfully delayed swell nonetheless during a same time during a lowest spin given Nov 2012 (5.2% in Germany nonetheless 10.4% in France, 12.6% in Italy and 25.2% in Spain so a divergences are super-wide).
The Reserve Bank of Australia was among a initial of several executive banks to reason a process assembly today, withdrawal rates on reason and signaling a totally neutral position going forward. The Bank of Canada meets tomorrow and approaching to do many a same.
Yesterday’s ISM prolongation index finally came in during a important 55.4 reading — a high-water symbol for a year and a fourth true increase. In a past, this spin was unchanging with 4% annualized genuine GDP growth, a rate that Q2 seems on lane to accommodate (the Markit guess was sitting even prettier during 56.4, a three-month high). Of a 18 industries responding, 17 reported expanding bureau activity and usually one pronounced conditions were prosaic — so it’s not usually a abyss nonetheless a extent of a news that was impressive.
The ISM prices-paid index changed serve out of disinflation terrain, rising to a three-month high of 60 in May from 56.5 in April. For any association observant declines in submit costs, 3 are observant increases. That is presumably a domain squeeze, a source of cost-push inflation, or both. The “nominal” ISM that takes into comment both volumes and pricing, strike a best spin in 4 years final month. Something for a expansion bears and bond bulls to presumably consider.
Bonds have benefitted of late from large brief covering, portfolio rebalancing after final year’s outrageous SP 500-Treasury relations lapse gap, a nouveau talk of a reduce post-crisis “terminal” Fed supports rate and outrageous institutional financier ardour for generation for pristine guilt relating functions — absolute account upsurge sources of strength for a bond market. But we simply can't see a mercantile box for an ongoing convene in U.S. Treasuries from here.
The initial entertain GDP reversal was clearly a outlier, shabby by one- off effects from a serious weather, an automobile register unwind, a finish to puncture jobless advantages and a new debt gift rules. These shocks, in terms of conversion incremental expansion rates, are over. Few pundits discuss that sum labor input, totalled by sum hours worked, rose during a 2% annual rate in Q1. Dow Transports meanwhile, have done gains in 7 of a past 8 sessions, are during a record high and adult 30% from year-ago levels, and are signaling softened mercantile times ahead. The new decrease in debt rates is a much- acquire source of service for a homebuilders.
Don’t see salary inflation? Well, we shall see either Seattle turns to be a heading indicator given a city legislature there usually unanimously voted in a $15 per hour smallest wage. That is a 60% hike. It will be engaging to see if a cost of that Big Mac and grande latte stay where they are (if you’re a Fed dove, not to worry, these don’t impact a ‘core’) — have a demeanour during Seattle Approves $15 Minimum Wage, Setting a New Standard for Big Cities on page A15 of today’s NYT. U.S. consumer spending energy is entrance behind too — Gallup’s consult for May showed that shoppers’ normal daily spending jumped $10 to $98 — a top this has been in 6 years.
Back to holds for a second. Interestingly, Larry Kudlow pens a mainstay on page A13 of a Investor’s Business Daily patrician Bernanke’s Bullish Bravado and concludes that “we’re looking during 1950s-style seductiveness rates and we might be looking during this for a prolonged time”. Indeed, what is not ordinarily famous about a 1950s was that a fed supports rate was as low as 0.25% and as high as 3.0%, and that a operation on a 10-year T- note produce was 2.3% to 4.0% … low indeed, nonetheless seductiveness rates were frequency unvaried over a decade.
And remember when we got a stronger-than-expected payroll information a month ago for May — a title adult 288k with sizeable ceiling revisions? That day, a U.S. Treasury marketplace rallied — a 10-year produce sealed down 3 basement points to 2.6%. That was a pointer that all a good news on a information was labelled in and afterwards some. We saw a retreat take place yesterday given a 10-year unsuccessful to convene on a initial (and faulty) ISM prolongation news display a bad 53.2 outcome … in a pointer that all a ‘bad’ news on a macro front might already be labelled into a yield.
WHERE AMERICANS ARE SHOPPING (AND WHERE THEY ARE NOT)
We went by a Apr consumer spending news with a excellent tooth brush to see, over a past year, what a relations expansion rates were. And in contrariety to all a pronounce of oppulance contra necessities and “haves” contra “have nots”, a existence is that American consumers took a autocracy over a past twelve months to produce themselves to a products and services that they sacrificed in a Great Recession and by many of this indeterminate recovery. The numbers pronounce for themselves — out of a cyclicals, usually restaurants and casinos have been soft. While housing has been weak, households have found a room in their budgets to buy furniture, appliances and video apparatus to debonair adult their existent units. Transportation — both autos, motorbikes and ride services — have stage adult considerable expansion rates. The transport bug is behind too even if gambling is not. Buying toys and going to a cinema have staged a manifest comeback.
UPDATE ON THE COMMITMENT OF TRADERS REPORT
The copper cost has been rallying in partial given of a large brief fist — a net suppositional brief position on a COMEX has plunged 90% in hardly some-more than dual months to 4,152 contracts — a lowest given late January.
Gold has been pang from a large net longs removing increasingly desirous — a 92,710 net suppositional longs are half a circuitously rise and a lowest they have been given late January.
The net suppositional prolonged position on WTI wanton oil on a NYMEX continues to grub ever aloft — now adjacent during a record 444,048 contracts. Meanwhile, and maybe this is a good discordant signal, nonetheless a NYMEX shows a net noncommercial brief on healthy gas that has risen to levels not seen given a spin of a year and has doubled given a finish of Feb (3,259 contracts).
The Fed has sum a longhorn marketplace all right — a longhorn marketplace in complacency. The net suppositional VIX position on a CBOE has some-more than doubled given mid-April to 81,779 contracts.
The Canadian dollar is enjoying a brief covering convene of a own, as a net suppositional brief position has been sealed to usually 20,965 contracts, a lowest given Nov 19th and down a whopping 65% from a new peaks of limit bearishness.
The batch marketplace is sensitively creation new highs by a day nonetheless a speculators have been net brief a SP 500 now for dual weeks in a quarrel (4,169 contracts as of May 27th — a sidestep account substitute was net prolonged to a change of 10,086 contracts behind in early April).
The hedgies adore a bond marketplace all of a remarkable — pronounce about a discordant rise (in price). The net suppositional prolonged position on a CBOT as of May 27th was 22,876 contacts — this is a outrageous pitch (in a conflicting instruction to that seen for batch market) from a net 103,518 shorts behind in early Apr (that was a defeat shopping opportunity).
THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM FOR THE MAY ISM
The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) prolongation index, expelled during a prevalent time of 10 a.m. EDT on a initial business day of a month, unhappy marketplace expectations for an alleviation to 55.5 by display a monthly decrease from 54.9 to 53.2 in May on broad- formed decreases among a member sub-indices. Markets reacted feeble to this denote that a U.S. economy was losing movement by a second quarter, with a SP 500 descending by as many as 0.4% in a mins after a report’s release.
Shortly thereafter, however, a ISM released a correction, observant that an crude anniversary cause was practical in calculating a May index values — a spin of a prolongation index was now 56.0 in May, adult from Apr and a five-month high. One final improvement was released to uncover a tangible value of a ISM prolongation index was 55.4 in May (still adult from Apr and a five-month high, nonetheless now in line with strange marketplace expectations) — by this time equity markets had recouped their waste while bond yields also particularly topsy-turvy course.
With a dirt staid and a finalized numbers in place, a altogether ISM news was sincerely plain with a components mangle down as follows: improvements in new orders (+1.8 points to a five-month high of 56.9) and prolongation (+5.3 to 61.0, also a five-month high) some-more than equivalent declines in retailer deliveries (-2.7 to 53.2, indicating that smoothness times were reduction delayed than a prior month) and practice (-1.9 to 52.8, retracing half of a prior month’s jump). Inventories hold plain during 53.0. Encouragingly, a orders-to-inventories differential softened to a four-month high of 3.9, indicating to serve improvements in prolongation in a entrance months.
The patron register index jumped to a three-month high of 46.5, nonetheless this is still demonstrative of customers’ inventories being deliberate too low and points to augmenting near-term prolongation as firms get their inventories to levels they hold some-more suitable — that said, a share of respondents observant that patron inventories were “too low” slipped to 18% from 21% in Apr and 24% in March, while those observant stockpiles were “too high” rose to 11% from a four-year low of 5% in a prior month.
With honour to inflationary pressures, a prices paid index rose to a three-month high of 60.0 following dual uninterrupted monthly moderations as 31% of consult respondents pronounced their costs were rising — a largest share given Feb 2013 — usually 11% pronounced prices paid were disappearing and a change remarkable no changes. The news remarkable 23 line were adult in cost contra usually 4 that were down while 4 line were remarkable as being in brief supply.
While a altogether indices were sincerely solid, maybe a best denote of a movement in a attention by Q2 is a extent of improvement: for a second true month, 17 of 18 prolongation subsectors reported a expansion while in contrariety to April, no attention reported a contraction. Moreover, a comments from respondents were generally upbeat, with any concerns some-more tied to supply-side issues than any problems with demand:
What respondents are saying
Increasing direct for product is formulating supply and sourcing challenges. (Food, Beverage Tobacco Products)
Steel bars compulsory for automotive applications are in high demand. Supply is really parsimonious and prices are increasing. (Fabricated Metal Products)
Aviation is recuperating and opinion is optimistic. (Transportation Equipment)
The improving gas prices are definitely impacting a brief tenure drilling plans. (Petroleum Coal Products)
Political issues in Russia are not nonetheless impacting a supply of tender materials from Russian suppliers. (Computer Electronic Products)
Volumes picking adult in some sectors, nonetheless profitability still elusive. Suppliers prove identical problems in removing cost increases. (Chemical Products)
Business has remained steady. However, this month has a some-more resigned showing by comparison. Price escalation has intended off with even a few decreases on comparison items. (Wood Products)
Semiconductor, oil gas are really busy. (Electrical Equipment, Appliances Components)
Business somewhat adult as anticipated; holding. (Machinery)
Defense attention contracts are shrinking, patron is sportive smallest options, or reduction than minimum. (Miscellaneous Manufacturing)
CONSTRUCTION SPENDING SOLID TO START Q2
Construction spending in a U.S. rose by 0.2% MoM in April, blank marketplace expectations for a 0.6% benefit in a month, however, any beating was erased as a primarily reported 0.2% boost in Mar was revised adult to +0.6% while February’s formerly reported 0.2% decrease now stands as during +0.4%. The net outcome of a monthly boost sum with a ceiling revisions to a prior dual months was for a spin of construction spending in Apr to indeed be 0.6% aloft than approaching by a markets going into today’s recover — providing a decent start to activity in Q2 with a Apr spin an annualized 2.9% above Q2.
In terms of a sum of a report, a medium altogether boost construction spending in Apr was wholly strong in a open zone (+0.8% MoM) while private zone spending was prosaic (0.1% benefit in residential construction spending was equivalent by a 0.1% decrease in non- residential spending as declines in communication, energy and prolongation some-more than equivalent boost in a other sectors led by office, blurb and health care).
BANK LENDING GAINING MORE MOMENTUM
U.S. banks might contend in a Senior Loan Officer Survey that they sojourn parsimonious in their credit scoring, nonetheless they are still handling to find borrowers to whom to extend loanable funds. Commercial bank lending, on net, rose $26.7 billion in a May 21st week and have stretched now in 12 of a past 13 weeks. We have not seen back-to-back increases of this bulk (was $18.7 billion in May 14th) given a commencement of Jan final year. On a 13-week rate of change basis, sum loans and leases have accelerated during a 9% annual rate, and a gains have been broad-based: blurb industrial loans adult during a 12.7% annualized rate, blurb genuine estate adult 7.3%, housing loans overhanging to a positive-2.9% rate, and consumer credit adult to a 8.1% annual rate. Tough to block these information points with a moribund mercantile backdrop.
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