The stock market’s resilience so far in 2023 is an example of a well-worn but sometimes useful market concept known as the “pain trade.” Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report Research, defined it succinctly in a Tuesday note: “The goal of the market is to extract the most amount of pain from the greatest number of people.” Click here to read the full article.
“The expectation that consumer demand will firm markedly in China as the economy continues to recover from the impact of strict economic lockdowns is another supporting factor for oil markets this week,” said Richey. Click here to read the full article.
What was interesting about Wednesday’s rally was that the U.S. petroleum inventory data, which were largely bearish, were “ignored and traders instead bid up the market on the easing headline CPI figure. To me, that suggests the market has largely priced in the OPEC+ production cut planned for next month and is again focused on the demand outlook, as the cooling price pressures bolstered hopes a hard economic landing can be avoided,” Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research, told MarketWatch. Click here to read the full article.
“However, the banks are the main driver of oil, and really all risk assets, as fading confidence in the financial system is reigniting fears that another crisis may be looming, after we saw some of the biggest bank failures since 2008 in early March,” Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research, told MarketWatch. Click here to read the full article.
“Optimism surrounding China’s economic recovery are offsetting more hot inflation data in Europe and the U.S.,” which sparked further hawkish money flows early Thursday, said Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research. The Chinese government is “simultaneously raising their growth outlook for 2023, and considerably so,” he told MarketWatch. That’s “being seen as a balancing factor for any economic slowdown the West.” Click here to read the full article.
The data, however, also showed “some evidence of improving consumer demand for refined products,” said Tyler Richey, co-editor of Sevens Report Research, with the four-week moving average of gasoline supplied up by just over 200,000 barrels a day to 8.3 million barrels a day. Click here to read the full article.
“The spike in the 2-year yield tells us the market is now believing the Fed when it has been saying it’s going to raise rates close to or above 5%, notably, it wasn’t Powell’s commentary that got the market to believe that — it was the economic data from Friday, notably the jobs report and ISM Services PMI,” Essaye said, the founder of Sevens Report Research. Click here to read the full article.
“We are now witnessing the biggest game of ‘Chicken’ between the Fed (who says rates are going to above 5%) and the market (who thinks the Fed cuts rates at least twice this year) that I’ve ever seen,” said Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report Research, in a Tuesday newsletter. Click here to read the full article.
“A sustained break above the 200-day moving average would imply that investors are becoming fundamentally more optimistic about the market. That would require real progress toward the Fed actually stopping its rate-hike campaign. Or progress toward the economy actually achieving a soft landing. Or progress toward inflation falling somewhere that is reasonably more acceptable to the Fed,” said Tom Essaye, founder of the Sevens Report. Click here to read the full article.
“Specifically, despite skyrocketing cases and reports of stressed hospitals, Chinese authorities are not locking down cities and that implies continued increases in energy demand as the world’s second largest economy comes back online,” said analysts at Sevens Report Research, in a note. Click here to read the full article.
