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“Human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.”
– Jonathan Hadt
Is the bond market emotional?
You can read about how “Bond Vigilants” pushed the 30 -year Treasury yield above 5% this week.
It was a dramatic step and our impulse, as usual, was to explain the market by anthropological – to introduce objectives, desires and fear on an amalgamation of prices.
For example, CNN, one has gone Headline Promising to explain why the “Bond Market ‘is so concerned about the big, beautiful bill.”
The proximity to the passage of a budget bill seems to be passed, if the tax is deducted, if enacted and expanded for the whole decade (as they usually occur), it will probably be the least added $ 5.3 trillion For national loan.
But the bond market is not a person, so it may not “worry” about tax deduction or lack of budget.
Even more carefully it has been stated that like an assessment of Reuters that “investors can be worried about the country’s growing debt burden” – because it is very difficult to uncontrolled the correlation and cause in the markets.
Gym Simmons quantitative hedge funds, Renaissance Technologies, A The data entry error once in an intention of several wheat futures to buy 5X due to a trading algorithm, so that prices shoots more artificially.
The next day, The Wall Street Journal reported that analysts attributed the “The Market” move, which is expected to have a bad upcoming crop.
This is not an unusual phenomenon: Every title about whatever is happening in the markets is just an estimate what can happen.
Simmons did not bother to try.
“Our entire basis,” he explained, “was that human actors would work in the same way as humans did in the past.”
This did a great job for him: In 30 years, the major medal funds of Simmons returned 66% per year (before fees).
66%! Every year!
In direction, Simmons obtained their algorithm by allowing all decisions to take all the decisions – algorithms that were able to present the pattern of human behavior in markets without re -starting the market as a person.
I take it as a reminder that the bond market cannot coordinate to punish the fiscal irresponsible or apply monetary justice, because the word “vigilance” means.
Instead, its movements reflect only the expectations of countless investors who are constantly making all kinds of decisions due to various reasons.
Nevertheless, metaphors like “Bond Vigilants” can be an auxiliary shorthand when we are trying to understand the pattern in noise – which, being a human being, we cannot help in.
The collective decision of all those investors made 30 years yield to 5.15%, possibly on tax-cut fear-then back up to 5.03%, possibly on tariff fear.
I think.
Let’s check the chart what we can make for other patterns.
Inflation is No Story:
Cleveland Fed’s Nauscast model sees US CPI growing 0.12% in May. It only works annually as 1.44%, so I think we can dismiss “concerns of inflation” as bond yield is up.
Bond GDP can cause decueling:
Juliet Decck exposes abnormal deviation between Treasury Yields and ISM’s ISM survey of manufacturing activity – high yields and low GDPs, Um, not what we want.
Reverse Lafar Curve:
At the mark of the campaign, President Trump said that his proposed tax deduction “will be revenue-plated when you add development because we are going to do excellent development.”
But history shows that the cost of increasing deficit is correlated Slower GDP growth. “The excitement does not stimulate,” Research colleague Closing.
A list for US economy:
The Q2 Growth Tracking in Atlanta Fed is 2.4%, but Torsten Slok has listed 10 causes as to why things are likely to deteriorate after this.
In anger, they are all self-stunned. Deutsche Bank has a long list of analysts – they warn This will be “death with a thousand cuts” for the American economy.
Europe’s self-stunned tariffs:
President Trump threatened the European Union with 50% tariff on goods this morning, which is disappointing after settling things. But the European Union automatically imposes similar tariffs – Louis Gericano Estimate Internal obstacles for trade between European Union countries (country-specific rules and regulations, most) are equal to internal tariffs of 45% on goods and 110% On services. Auch.
The European Union’s stock market does not seem worried, however:
Bitcoin (in purple color above) is 17% compared to the previous month, but it is still not enough with European equity – they are 21% above a year.
Vigilance visit Japan:
Bond vigilance in Japan has always been clearly absent in Japan, despite the country’s leading debt-to-GDP ratio 250%.
But they must have finally come. This week, the yield on the 30-year-old Japanese government bonds exceeded 3% for the first time (which returned only in 1999 when the 30-year tanner was first released).
Fun Japan Facts: Four longest -lasting companies in the world are in Japan, led by the construction company. Kongo GumiWhich was established in the year 578! Not fun Japan Facts: This morning inflation data showed that the price of rice is up Year by year 98%,
Foreigners are a little worried about America:
The Torsten Slok shows that foreign participation in a 30-year Treasury auction is at a multi-year low. But the Y-axes starts at 57.5% on his chart, so I think they are not He Concerned.
When the markets are closed:
American now takes membership of about five streaming services per house – because we love stories, of course.
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