MDM has switched to a BUY signal. CME Fed Fund Futures now expect 3 rate cuts over the next 3 Fed meetings which will bring the target rate down to 125-150 bps by the end of the year. Other central banks are following suit. Beijing has already indicated easier money on the way by announcing a long-awaited reform to interest rates. German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said Sunday that the euro zone’s largest economy could provide fiscal stimulus, if needed, to combat a recession. Scholz suggested that the potential move would likely come after the European Central Bank restarted quantitative easing. Mexico also surprised with a cut in rates, the first in five years. Canada's yield curve inverted by the most in nearly two decades, piling pressure on the Bank of Canada to act.
Markets are thus primed on reduced discount rates and a resumption of bond buying across the board. German 10-year bund yields now stand at a record low of ‑0.71%. Italian, Spanish and Portuguese bonds sharply rallied on the news. While QE cannot continue forever, the decade long bull market can be largely attributed to QE, so while the market action, albeit sloppy at times, remain in an uptrend, MDM will pick its reentries.
The sharp selloff last Wednesday was due to the 2- and 10-year yield curves inverting for the first time this cycle. It can take anywhere from a couple of months to around two years for the S&P 500 to peak after an inversion, based on Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysis of past 2s10s inversions spanning back to 1956, thus with the new wave of QE at hand, odds favor a resumption of the decade-long bull in the U.S. stock markets.Nevertheless, with the number of global issues unfolding whether it be slumping economies, devaluations in Argentina, stand offs in Hong Kong, et al, expect more gap up/gap down days as par for the course with the steady stream of QE to help guide markets higher perhaps in the context of a sloppy uptrend, at least for now.
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