Capital Daily Economic resilience may end the twin rally in bonds and stocks After a few weeks of strong performance, “safe” and “risky” assets have both generally sold off today after the strong US payrolls data. We expect this to continue over the rest of 2022. 5th August 2022 · 7 mins read
Capital Daily We still expect BoE hikes to put upward pressure on Gilt yields While the 10-year Gilt yield initially dropped after today’s 50bp hike by the Bank of England, we still expect ongoing monetary tightening to push that yield up over the rest of this year. 4th August 2022 · 6 mins read
Capital Daily We expect real yields to be a near-term headwind for gold We think that real yields in the US will continue to rise and put renewed pressure on the price of gold and most other assets. 3rd August 2022 · 5 mins read
Capital Daily We don’t think the dollar has peaked yet Although the US dollar has faltered over the past couple of weeks, we doubt its bull run is over. 2nd August 2022 · 5 mins read
Capital Daily What to make of recent sector rotation We don’t expect the renewed outperformance of the consumer discretionary and information technology sectors of the US stock market to continue. It appears to have been driven both by a plunge in TIPS... 1st August 2022 · 5 mins read
Capital Daily What a stronger yen could mean for the US stock market The surge in the yen against the dollar seems to be a logical, but delayed, response to a shrinking gap between US and Japanese government bond yields. In the wake of big revisions to our forecasts... 29th July 2022 · 7 mins read
Capital Daily This is (probably) not the Powell pivot markets are looking for Financial markets have taken the combination of yesterday’s FOMC’s announcement and today’s negative US GDP print as confirmation that policymakers will ease off their aggressive monetary tightening... 28th July 2022 · 7 mins read
Capital Daily For EM financial markets, bad news is just bad news We expect weak global growth to keep the pressure on EM sovereign bonds over the rest of 2022, and think that most EM currencies will weaken against the US dollar over this period. 27th July 2022 · 5 mins read
Capital Daily Valuations still don’t point to a rebound in US stocks Despite the plunge from its highs late last year, the valuation of the S&P 500 still doesn’t look all that low to us. This informs our view that the index has not yet reached a trough. 26th July 2022 · 6 mins read
Capital Daily Central banks may yet put more upward pressure on bond yields We expect elevated inflation to keep developed market (DM) central banks hiking rates aggressively this year, even as economies slow sharply, in some cases falling into recession. Accordingly, we... 25th July 2022 · 5 mins read
Capital Daily We doubt the recent rally in US equities will continue We doubt bad news for the US economy will continue to be good news for US equities, as seems to have been the case of late, and expect equity prices to fall over the remainder of 2022. 22nd July 2022 · 7 mins read
Capital Daily Lagarde snatches defeat from the jaws of victory Despite the ECB’s attempt at a hawkish policy shift and to shore up euro-zone periphery sovereign bond markets, we doubt the worst is over for euro-zone financial markets. 21st July 2022 · 6 mins read
Capital Daily We expect a renewed rise in Gilt yields before long The release of strong UK labour market and inflation figures this week, coupled with the growing likelihood that the next Conservative Party leader will loosen fiscal policy, strengthen our conviction... 20th July 2022 · 7 mins read
Capital Daily We think EM assets will continue to struggle, but not sink While we don’t expect EM financial assets to underperform DM assets as they did in the 2013 “taper tantrum”, we expect them to remain under pressure over the remainder of this year. 19th July 2022 · 6 mins read
Capital Daily Earnings expectations, the Fed and the S&P 500 Optimistic expectations for US corporate earnings over the next couple of years, coupled with a still-hawkish Fed, mean we think the S&P 500 will stay under pressure for a while. 18th July 2022 · 5 mins read
Capital Daily Chinese equities still face many headwinds We think that several data releases and events over the past week or so lend some support to our view that China’s stock markets will continue to struggle. 15th July 2022 · 8 mins read
