2022-10-02

Broadridge Financial Solutions [[$BR]]:

Spruce Point Capital published on Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR — $22.3 billion), a corporate services and financial technology company. Spruce Point called the company “a low value-added business process outsourcer with rising financial stress and dubious technology prowess.” Spruce Point highlighted website and disclosure …

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Trussonomics is deeply stupid. But there seems to be a lot of hyperventilating going on. No, it won't cause a global crisis — for God's sake, Britain is only 3.2% of world GDP. And while British markets are a mess, we're a long way from …

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2022-09-29

Wrap

All risk assets are down today, including longer-dated bonds. Even stocks that never go down, like $AAPL and $TSLA are affected. Supposedly, the UK’s government’s woes are the cause of some of this mayhem. It seems unlikely, somehow, that this wet and windy island can cause …

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28 Sept

It ain’t over ‘till the unemployment numbers go up

This post explains how commodity-price driven inflation must lead to wage inflation and that only when this is brought down by ‘mass’ unemployment will inflation generally be tamed. It’s a grim picture, but may be right.

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Crescat Strategy

Crescat Aug newsletter. This newsletter shows some charts from the 60’s 70’s, when inflation was high, and drove up unemployment and drove down equities. It also shows how cheap energy has become relative to almost any other sector, but particularly relative to consumer discretionary.

All you …

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2022-09-27

Twitter

Russia🇷🇺 is most likely the first and only country in the world where people flee not because someone invaded their country, but because they invaded another country. pic.twitter.com/TzKnoBldP7

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky (English) (@mbk_center) September 27, 2022

Wrap

A couple of Fed Presidents (Evans, Mester and Kashkari …

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2022-09-26

Causes of stock price falls

Wrap

Risk assets continue to struggle. The only equity markets which are up on the year are Turkey and Cyprus. The latter is a minnow, the former is up only because the denominator, the Turkish Lira, has been so weak. Sterling assets continue to …

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2022-09-21

FOMC day

Stocks took a hit because the FOMC announced another 75bp hike. Short term rates are now above 3% (I’m never sure what rate is more important, but they are at 3% and 3.25% according to Trading Economics). SPX was down 2%, but it was lower …

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2022-09-08

Bank stress tests

This paper from researchers at the Bank of England suggests that as of Q4 last year, the probability of an ‘extreme stress event’ was around 1.7%. Numbers like this have to have a spurious precision. The researchers looked at £9.4 trillion in assets on …

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2022-09-07

The housing market

Desired saving. Distrust of securities markets. QE and zero interest rate policy driving down returns on money-like assets. Literal visibility of asset class. Obsessive coverage of house price indexes by mass media. High fees and offputting tone of financial advisors. High visibility and faded memory of …

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