Global Rates Update #9: Perfect Storm
- Energy trades live. Growth shows up lagged. The market struggles to price both simultaneously.
- Macro stops became RV stops. Then we found France
- The US consumer was stronger than we thought. The income revisions help explain the resilience
- thoughts on Economic r* vs Financial r*.
-G4 Central banks all looking to hike at a quarterly cadence
-One long end yield, two stories. Good growth and bad fiscal get you to the same, higher yield..
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Bloodbath spills over into Italy today.
2y BTP absolutely destroyed. Spreads 20bp wider in the space of an hour. Dash for the safety of the Shatz.
Full 2023 redux for the 30y. Having broken the old highs, we’ve now run ~50bps higher. Reminder that QRA “saved” us last time… let’s see.
Well m7z8 worked out ok… Probably no better than just staying short but hey ho.
Risk definitely did not enjoy pricing >3% in ESTR.
Seems I never posted the link on Twitter last week. (All the more reason to subscribe via Substack, it’s free!)
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Easy part of the EUR rates repricing is now over..
Terminal rates on ESTR made it to 3% today finally.
Further sell offs from here will only deteriorate risk, and be somewhat self suffocating.
Don’t mind M7Z8 flats here, as well as some soft midcurve topside on Z8
The commodities that matter still all pushing their own local highs.
Notably Food/Ags accelerating which is easily the most important.
Pressure on EUR belly persists. 3% terminal in sight.
Starting to game out scenarios of a 4% Bund 10y…
(Chart: TTF, Wheat, QS Z6 futs YTD)



























