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<p><strong>Markets covered: Rice, Cotton, Soybeans, Corn, and Wheat; Select Global Currencies; Oil; Select Equities; Copper; and 10-year Treasury Yield</strong></p>
November 14, 2016
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U.S. Recessionary Forces Gathering Strength – Mandates Throttling Up U.S. Fiscal and Monetary Intervention to Avoid a Significant U.S. and Global Downturn
Post Tuesday’s November 8, 2016 U.S. Presidential and Congressional elections market participants are now anticipating inflationary forces will build with each passing month as U.S. and global governments and monetary officials become highly proactive in limiting global recessionary forces impact by growing global growth.
Rebalancing portfolios underway
Post-election market participants are biased toward investments that will benefit from:
An assumed smaller government;
A more accommodative business environment with a friendlier U.S. tax structure and regulatory environment;
Investing in infrastructure;
Investing in future technology;
Military preparedness; etc.
Significant money appears to be moving away from safe-haven investments like Treasuries and Utilities to riskier investments.
Market participants are rebalancing their portfolios by reducing their safe-haven investments like Treasury Notes which were around a yield of 1.34 after BREXIT and ended U.S. Election Week at 2.15.
For example, election week saw the strongest sector performance from financials, industrials, and materials as investors looked for opportunity in sectors that are expected to benefit from a Trump Presidency.
Central Banks Trapped
Central Banks are trapped by the math.
If they raise the rates the Central Banks destroy debtors and asset markets.
If they keep rates at zero the Central Banks destroy pension funds, banks and insurers.
Simon Mikhailovich @S_Mikhailovich
Central Banks globally need their governments to inject sufficient levels of stimulus to provide inflationary lift. This would then allow the U.S. Central Banks and others the opportunity to raise their rates.
Governments Trapped
Governments are also trapped:
By a constituency addicted to irrational entitlement expectations and accompanying unsustainable levels of debt.
By a chronic slow growth domestic and global economy
By historic low and even negative interest rates
By populism vs globalization
By building economic, food, energy, and homeland security concerns.
U.S. Central Bank Rate Hike
Given today’s unfolding market expectations market participants increasingly expect a rate hike in December and likely several rate hikes next year.
Charts 1 - 3. $UST10Y - 10-Year US Treasury Yield
Primary Consideration:
Anticipated building government and monetary policy intervention expected to be friendly to business and favor investing in equities and commodities over bonds.
The 10-Year Treasury likely consolidates, but will be in search of a higher yield.
Primary Consideration:
I remain more concerned about additional price weakness and the culmination of a bottoming process near term. Bottom Weekly Bollinger Band presently at $8.95.
Alternative Consideration:
Considering global risks and uncertainties and required intervention activities argue a price bottom is in place or near.
Additional Thought:
Market participants appear to be building a risk appetite. Being short means at least having close mental stops.
Primary consideration:
Near term bottoming process underway, likely a retest of the previous low at $3.15 per bushel
Alternative consideration:
Bottom in place and upside consideration to $4.15 per bushel
Primary consideration:
A bottoming process is underway
Primary Consideration:
Corrective price action underway with possible price weakness to the bottom of the Weekly Bollinger Bands on the weekly chart
Bullish prices likely beyond this corrective price activity
Primary Consideration:
Forming a price bottom
Price weakness into the $3.80 area a possibility
Primary Consideration:
Copper price action the last 2 weeks was encouraging, but prices likely need to make a final low before turning bullish
Primary Consideration:
A challenging market for a number of economic and geopolitical reasons
OPEC guidance likely defines price low
Global uncertainties supportive of prices
Range bound market
Primary consideration:
Near term corrective action lower likely remains underway before moving higher. In the equity markets the financial, industrial, and materials sectors are likely beneficiaries of anticipated inflation.
Charts 22 - 23. Power Shares US Dollar Index
Primary Considerations:
Dollar running into fairly strong resistance, consolidation likely, but expect more dollar strength than weakness
Global interventionist government and Central Bank activities will define dollar strength or weakness over the next 3 to 12 months
Charts 24 – 25. SPDR S&P 500 ETF
Primary Consideration:
Acting bullish
Charts 26 - 27. QQQ NASDAQ Power Shares
Primary Consideration:
Consolidating
Price uncertainty near term, so be respectful until price direction is further defined
Bond Rout Deepens as Trump Bets Buoy Dollar; Japan Shares Climb
By James Regan and Wes Goodman, Bloomberg Markets, November 13, 2016
“The global bond rout intensified, the dollar strengthened and futures indicated U.S. equities will build on their biggest weekly jump in two years as investors further assess the implications of Donald Trump’s election to the American presidency. Japanese shares rallied after GDP data.
Sovereign bonds in Asia slid with U.S. Treasuries, extending a record debt selloff, amid speculation Trump’s plans to boost infrastructure spending will spur U.S. interest-rate hikes as economic growth and inflation pick up. Bloomberg’s dollar index climbed to a nine-month high as an earthquake weighed on New Zealand’s dollar and gold sank to a five-month low. The Topix index rose to its highest since April after Japan’s gross domestic product grew by more than economists forecast, while emerging-market assets slumped.”
Continue reading at the following link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-13/asian-futures-outside-japan-tip-stock-losses-as-quake-hits-kiwi
Bloomberg:
Weekly Charts and Accompanying Daily Charts
Chart 1. $UST10Y - 10-Year US Treasury Yield, Weekly Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 2. $UST10Y - 10-Year US Treasury Yield, Daily Chart, November 2014 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 3. $UST10Y - 10-Year US Treasury Yield, Monthly Chart, November 2014 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 4. Soybeans, Weekly Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 5. Soybeans, Daily Chart, May 2016 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 6. Soybeans, Monthly Chart, May 2016 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 7. Corn, Weekly Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 8. Corn, Daily Chart, May 2016 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 9. Rice, Weekly Chart, October 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 10. Rice, Daily Chart, February 2016 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 11. Cotton, Weekly Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 12. Cotton, Daily Chart, May 2016 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 13. Wheat, Weekly Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 14. Wheat, Daily Chart, May 2016 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 15. Copper, Weekly Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 16. Copper, Daily Chart, May 2016 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 17. $WTIC, Weekly Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 18. $WTIC, Daily Chart, May 2016 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 19. $CRB Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index, Weekly Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 20. $CRB Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index, Daily Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 21. $CRB Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index, Monthly Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 22. Power Shares US Dollar Index, Weekly Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 23. Power Shares US Dollar Index, Daily Chart, November 2014 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 24. SPDR S&P 500 ETF, Weekly Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 25. SPDR S&P 500 ETF, Daily Chart, November 2014 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 26. QQQ NASDAQ Power Shares, Weekly Chart, September 2013 – Nov. 11, 2016
Chart 27. QQQ NASDAQ Power Shares, Daily Chart, May 2016 – Nov. 11, 2016
Bobby Coats is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Division of Agriculture, University of Arkansas System. E-mail: [email protected].
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