A grim day for Miss Truss

Published: Fri 14 October 2022
Updated: Tue 22 November 2022
By steve

In Markets.

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The fallout from yesterday’s CPI print is still being felt. The money supply is the only thing that matters, and the Fed is the only central bank that matters. After a 160 point move in SPX yesterday, there was a 100 point move in the other direction today. This gave a bearish tint to all risk assets and (predictably) dragged down energy commodities. Basically every traded commodity was down, as were large commodity stocks ($XOM down 2.65%). Of course, most commodity-oriented emerging market equity indexes were down too, e.g. Bovespa down 1%. Bitcoin was down 1%, but seems to be holding up remarkably well at ~$19K. Ethereum was up, but having falled from ~$4.8K to ~$1.3K in the course of the last year.

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Summary: Truss is having another bad week.

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I am still not returned to normal after my holiday. It makes you want to skip holidays altogether: my father’s solution to this problem.

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