Solar industry warns of hurdles to EU’s green tech drive: ‘Europe isn’t profitable’ Europe’s bid to expand its green tech industry faces a host of challenges, including high energy costs and supply chain issues, solar industry representatives gathered in Madrid warned on Thursday
IMF chief Georgieva: soft landing possible, but fiscal, debt risks abound
U.S yield curve 'un-inverting', textbook recession behaviour ? hence why the FED would appear to have 'leaked' a pause in Nov, due to 'financial conditions tightening'.. quite possible! employment data which remains key for Powell
JOLTS were much stronger, ADP a little softer in mid week, now time for NFP : payrolls expected to fall to 150K from 187K, U rate expected to hold at 3.8%. Average hourly earnings forecast to rise 0.3% MoM and 4.1% YoY, from 0.2% and 4.3% respectively
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The 30-Year Mortgage Rate in the US has moved up to 7.49%, the highest level since December 2000. U.S. Bank losses on held-to-maturity assets have soared to an all-time high of $400 Billion. US small banks’ credit card delinquency rates hit a multi-decade high
Markets :
GOLD most oversold since 2015/Thread
UST 10's just above 4.7% ahead of NFP, bonds oversold, but.. long-term yields could drop towards 4.4/4.5% and the long-term picture wouldn't change technically, and with supply coming it's hard to think of much more of a correction than this, Yellen going on a UST selling spree in a holiday shortened 3 day window next week.. total of nearly $550bn in gross issuance (bills and bonds) with $85bn of net issuance of which $61bn comes from 3s/10s/30s
USDollar similar, overbought slightly, as bonds and equity got a little oversold too, one NFP data is quite irrelevant, but decent swing possible in short-term sentiment
SPX500 200dma key for 'medium-term' direction into Q4, so far so good, we held this week! yet underneath it has been pretty terrible for rates sensitive stocks, take #BAC and #Citi stocks hitting 1y lows
Crude steadying $82 area after a huge liquidation of leveraged CTA/Spec positions, though long-term no real evidence of weak aggregate demand for crude, so soon a buy again.. bar a nasty recession call of course
#HYG also had its largest 10day sell.-off since banking crisis in March 2023, when 10's UST yields reached 4%
jeroen blokland on X: "If you are focused only on the reason why the US #yieldcurve is 'uninverting' (short end vs. long end), you are missing the critical point of what is already a small sample size: The yield curve inverted only in the run-up to a #recession!" / X (twitter.com) >>> Inverted 10-year Treasury yield and Nasdaq 100 formed a significant divergence from April to July 2023
As the New York attorney general accuses Donald Trump of fraud, Forbes answers the question at the heart the case: What is he really worth?
HYG - high yield credit
