Der USA Bären-Thread
Fallen die längerfristigen US-Bonds weiter, erhöht sich ihre Zins-Rendite auf über 5 %. Das macht längerfristige Kredite teurer - was nicht nur Private-Equity-Übernahmen teurer macht (= Abflauen des Leverage-Bouyout-Wahns), sondern auch dem Housing-Markt zusetzt. Denn bei Housing stehen sehr viele Refinanzierungen an, da Option-Arms-Verträge en masse auslaufen. Mr. Market ergreift die Chance, den Habenichtsen an der Home-Front nun das Umsatteln auf traditionelle Festzins-Hypotheken zu vermasseln.
Anmerkung: Die längerfristigen Zinsen setzt allein der Bond- und Futuremarkt. Die Fed kann nur die Leitzinsen (kurzfristiges Geld) verändern. Freilich entziehen auch die weltweiten Leitzinserhöhungen der Notenbanken (kürzlich in England auf 5,5 %, am 6.6. in der EU auf 4 %, mehrfach in China usw.) dem globalen System Liquidität.
Die Ära der globalen Hyperliquidität samt ihrer Blasen in allen Assetklassen und den wahnwitzigen PE-Übernahmen nähert sich daher langsam dem Ende.
Der Markt kann viele Börsen-Regeln vorübergehend außer Kraft setzen. Bei einer hat er jedoch mittelfristig immer Schwierigkeiten: Hohe Zinsen sind Gift für Aktien.
Der viel zu hohe Kupferpreis gibt definitiv nach. Nun ist auf dem Stand von Anfang April. Ein Monat ist die magische Marke, die hat er locker geknackt
Das bedeutet auch, daß die Nachfrage nach Kupfer nicht mehr optimistisch gesehen wird. Gerade die Innovatoren geben spürbar nach ( Beispiel Max Automation 658090 )
Ich werde pessimistischer und pessimistischer,
regards
Fred
Currencies
Will the Yen Hold Its Low?
By Howard Simons - Street.com Contributor
5/30/2007 9:44 AM EDT
As humble pie is not on the dessert menu at most Wall Street eateries -- lack of demand, I guess -- it is a good idea for those of us in the business to serve it to ourselves. This can include, as is the present case, not throwing a do-it-yourself ticker-tape parade down Broadway on those occasions when a market forecast proves correct.
You have to keep those valuable karma points in the bank; you always need them sooner than you imagined.
For this reason, the correct forecast made last October that the yen would find support in late winter was allowed to pass without comment when the yen did, in fact, make a mid-February low near 122. This was a week before the Bank of Japan raised interest rates to 0.50% and two weeks before an unwinding of the yen carry trade, last discussed here in January, was proffered as a reason for the global market hiccup of February 27, 2007.
Fundamentals Remain Negative
Let's update the analysis from last October. First and foremost, the yen remains hated by noncommercial futures traders, a crowd not known for winning popularity contests itself. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show that the net-short position of these traders is moving back toward levels that produced spasms of short-covering twice within the past seven months. While more evidence than this is needed to say a bottom is in place, we can say it is never a good idea to ignore the presence of everyone on one side of the boat.
Source: Bloomberg |
Relative Interest Rate Expectations
The CFTC data may not be deterministic, but they are easy to understand. The opposite obtains for the next indicator. We can compare relative monetary policy expectations between the U.S. and Japan by comparing the forward-rate ratios (FRR) between six and nine months for each currency. These are the rates at which you can lock in borrowing for three months starting six months from now, divided by the nine-month rate itself. The more this ratio exceeds 1.00, the steeper the money-market curve and, presumably, the looser the monetary policy.
If we subtract the FRR for the yen from that of the dollar, we show the Japanese FRR was steeper than the U.S. FRR prior to the May 2006 tightening of credit in Japan; this meant expectations for Japanese short-term interest rates were rising faster than those for U.S. short-term rates. Once this differential collapsed, so did the yen.
The present situation has the differential slowly but surely moving back in favor of Japan. The Bank of Japan would like to renormalize its ultralow interest rates, while the Federal Reserve is stuck in neutral, despite the twitchy proclamations of numerous Fed-watchers each time a new economic datum is released. This movement in the FRR differential, which statistically leads movements in the yen by 19 weeks on average, is supportive of the yen.
Source: Bloomberg |
What, Me Worry?
While our good friends at Mad magazine remained coyly silent on the question whether Alfred E. Neuman was engaging in the yen carry trade, yen volatility readings say the gap-toothed mascot is borrowing yen, swapping them into other currencies and remaining unconcerned about any quick yen revaluation. This is the same sort of imbalance seen above in the CFTC data and should be sufficient to sound a few alarm bells somewhere.
The volatility of three-month yen forwards is the price of buying insurance against such a rally; statistically, it leads movements in the yen by 23 weeks. It has drifted down toward its December 2006 lows, and if the January-March jump in yen volatility remains predictive, we should see buying pressure moving into the yen soon.
Source: Bloomberg |
Relative Stock Market Movements
Financial market spies from an alien civilization who landed in Tokyo three years ago would report back to their home planet there was no bull market on earth. Any way you slice it, Japan has underperformed and now has to suffer the indignity of watching a giddy bubble in China.
We noted last October how the yen tends to lead the relative stock market performances of the U.S. and Japan by 20 weeks on average. That pattern held between October and today; the Russell 3000 index's performance relative to that of the Nikkei 225 has followed the ups and downs of the yen.
Source: Bloomberg |
If this pattern continues to hold, the next few weeks should see weakness in the U.S. market relative to Japan, followed by a strong relative rally later in the summer.
The Final Dismissal
Let's end with one more sneer at those always-wrong, never-silent worrywarts who fear that at some point, a weak dollar will prompt foreign investors to dump their entire portfolios of U.S. Treasuries. If we go back to the start of the floating-exchange-rate era, we find, at best, a one-year lead time between the year and both one-year and 10-year U.S. interest rates.
As the yen has been in a broad trading range for almost two decades [zum Dollar A.L.], a little-commented-upon fact, and as U.S. rates have, in general, declined over this period, we defy anyone anywhere to demonstrate to us a causal relationship between the strength/weakness of the yen and weakness/strength in U.S. bonds.
Source: Bloomberg |
Humble pie will be served to those who can answer this challenge.
Howard L. Simons is president of Simons Research, a strategist for Bianco Research, a trading consultant and the author of The Dynamic Option Selection System.
Die China-Schwäche (- 6,5 % seit gestern) ging über Nacht mit Schwäche in Euro/Yen sowie Euro/US-Dollar einher.
Zweimal um die Ecke denken muss man an der Börse keineswegs. So clever und intellektuell sind die "Anleger" nämlich nicht im Mindesten. Ihr IQ liegt sicher unter Durchschnitt. Ihre Gier allerdings darüber.
Das Problem der Zinsen scheint mir noch nicht sonderlich auf der Tagesordnung zu stehen. Klar kanns mittelfristig in den Fokus gerückt werden, aber derzeit scheint die Aktienmärkte gar nichts zu stören. Und da jetzt auch jeder Kleinanleger in Deutschland über Nacht shorten kann, hab ich eh immer das Gefühl, wir haben ein gesundes Verhältnis von Bullen zu Bären. Einen wirklichen Crash kann ich mir kaum vorstellen. Eher sehen wir noch AllTimeHighs im Dax.
Bin jedenfalls seit Wochen auf dem Sprung, wieder einen Dax-Put zu kaufen, aber es ergibt sich keine Gelegenheit, keine Signale.
Das bei den Gewinnen, die dort sprudeln? Wen sollte das interessieren?
Der Markt sucht nach einen Verkaufssignal.
Zumindest der chinesische.
Bei uns wird wohl noch ein anderes gesucht.
Grüße
-hippeland-
Also:
- China 0,3% Steuer bzw. -6% ist NICHT schlüssig (betrifft ja nur chinesiche Hausfrauen und Rentner, zumal im Feb/Mar sowie heute Bärenfalle)
- China -50% könnte aber wohl schlüssig sein, weil es die chinesiche Regierung zum Handeln zwingt (wie weiß ich nicht) und das hätte womöglich weltweit Auswirkungen.
Wie man es auch dreht und wendet, Psychologie ist alles.
Übrigens bin ich ja Freitag mit Shorts auf die Nase gefallen: Drei Eveningstars hintereinander im S&P waren für mich schlüssig. Für den Markt aber nicht. Ihr seht: Zuviel nachdenken bringt's auch nicht!
http://nymag.com/news/features/32382/
... inkl. Titelgeschichte, die Cramer auch noch selber verfasst hat, obwohl es um ihn selber geht.
Passt hervorragend in die heutige Egomanen-Zeit, in der Firmen sich selbst vom Markt wegkaufen, während Private-Equity-Funds an die Börse gehen.
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Auszug:
"God knows why, but there seems to be a market for this kind of idiocy... Maybe it just feels this way to me because so many of the stories written about me are negative, but it seems as if I get a disproportionate amount of media coverage."
Das US-amerikanische Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) ist in der vorläufigen Fassung für das erste Quartal um 0,6 % gestiegen. Damit wurde die offizielle Vorabschätzung von 1,3 % nach unten revidiert. Erwartet wurde ein Wachstum im Bereich 0,7 bis 0,8 %. Im Quartal zuvor hatte das Wachstum noch 2,5 % betragen.
Der Chain Deflator ist nach vorläufigen offizellen Angaben im Quartal um 4,0 % gestiegen, womit bereits gerechnet worden war. Im vorangegangenem Quartal hatte das Plus 1,7 % betragen.
Es bleibt also bei der Gefahr von Stagflation (sinkendes Wachstum bei anziehender Inflation) - nicht gerade der Stoff für neue ATHs in allen großen US-Indizes
das is alles schwachsinn hier !! FED und daten und Bernake und Subprime !!
und china und was sonst noch !! und analysten .... und KGV und bilanzumstellung
und stock options................alles scheisse
wer hier noch nach us-daten traded der kann auch würfeln
tschuldigung aber mzusste mal raus wi´r sehn uns 1929
30-Year Yield Nearing Critical Level
5/31/2007 10:57 AM EDT
All year long I have been showing an annual support at 5.054 for the 30-Year US Treasury Bond. Today it has tested 5.049. A close today cheaper than 5.054 is significant according to my model as such should be the trigger to accelerate a rise in yields. This would be a sign that the Bond Conundrum that's been with us for the past four years is coming to an end.
A higher bond yield has been one important reason for my bear market call for stocks in 2007. A higher yield on 30-Year is an important drag on equity valuations, as it lowers the fair value calculation for every stock in my universe.
Robert Marcin
REITs
5/31/2007 11:01 AM EDT
...Sector performance often peaks around the stupid money buying at the top. Sam Zell sells and some OPMers [OPM = other people's money = Fonds - A.L.] buy with the greater fool theory in mind. I will bet on Zell every time! REITs [Real Estate Investment Trusts - A.L.] are expensive, interest rate sensitive stocks in a collapsing bond market. I think they can trend lower, even with the occasional deal.
10-Year's Yield at High
5/31/2007 10:34 AM EDT
The yield on the U.S. 10-year T-note is trading at 4.91%, its high yield for the year and the highest since last August. The yield broke above the closing high yield for the year set on January 29th at 4.894%. The continued march upward is occurring because the bond market is removing its expectation for future interest rate cuts.
Treasuries rarely trade below the fed funds rate unless there is the hope of a rate cut. Such has been the case for the past 18 years. The 10-year dipped below the funds rate only three other occasions, only when an interest rate cut was delivered within a 6-month horizon. This means that if the market becomes more certain that interest rate cuts are off the table, the 10-year's yield could move toward the fed funds rate.
Vergleicht man den Chart des SP-500-Subindex "Financials" (XLF) mit dem des SP-500 selbst (SPX), so fällt seit drei Monaten die Unterperformance des XLF auf:
How to Spot Weakness in the S&P
By Dan Fitzpatrick
Street.com Contributor
5/31/2007 11:30 AM EDT
...So far, the S&P is right on track, closing at a new high on Wednesday. I've drawn an uptrending resistance line connecting the past several peaks within the obvious uptrend.
One method of catching the first sign of weakness in an uptrend is to watch for an inability of the bulls to reach resistance. If the S&P fails to tag the uptrending resistance line drawn on this chart, I'd take a closer look at the trend. Until then, I'd control risk through trailing stops rather than outright sales. Trends often last longer than we expect them to, and the S&P is no exception.