Yardeni QuickTakes (Page 108)

Stock Market's Meltup Continues

Jun 15, 2023 2 min read

Investors had a quick look at today's economic indicators and concluded that the economy is still growing albeit slowly while inflation is continuing to moderate. The FOMC's next meeting is at the end of July. By then, the committee might conclude that the federal funds rate, currently still at 5.00%-5.25%, might be restrictive enough to get the inflation rate close to 2.0%

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A Hawkish Skip at the Fed

Jun 14, 2023 2 min read paid

In this past Sunday's QT, we wrote: "On Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell will update us on the committee's latest views. Odds are the FOMC will skip another rate hike, but hint that rate hiking might not be over." Sure enough, the FOMC skipped and the committee's statement noted: "Holding the target range steady at this meeting allows the Committee to

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Dr Ed's Video Webcast 6/14/23

Jun 14, 2023 1 min read paid

Investors are on the edge of their seats: Will the FOMC raise the federal funds rate (FFR) when it meets this week or pass this time? Key will be how fast inflation is falling, and the Consumer Price Index for May will be released as they deliberate. We say monetary policy is restrictive enough already, as the higher effective FFR implies a tighter environment than the straight FFR suggests. … Also:

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Inflation Shock Continues to Abate

Jun 14, 2023 2 min read

The pandemic was a shock. It caused lots of aftershocks including an inflation problem which was widely expected to be transitory, but has seemed to be more persistent. It may turn out to be transitory after all according to today's May PPI report. We usually focus on the inflation rate of the final demand PPI for personal consumption (chart). It tends to coincide with the inflation rates for

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The Bull Was Pleasantly Surprised by May's CPI Today

Jun 13, 2023 2 min read paid

Stock prices rallied from the open today on May's CPI report. It wasn't surprisingly good. But investors and traders feared that it might be surprisingly bad. That's been the modus operandi of this bull market since October 12. It's been rallying on all the bad things that aren't happening. So far, there's been no recession, no earnings collapse,

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S&P 500's Blue Angels Are Climbing Again

Jun 12, 2023 1 min read paid

Our Blue Angels analysis multiplies the weekly forward earnings of the S&P 500/400/600 by forward P/Es of 10-22 in increments of 2 (chart). We then can see how the three stock price indexes are tracking their Blue Angels, which always fly in a parallel formation. Forward earnings is the time-weighted average of industry analysts' consensus expectation for earnings during the current year

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Market Call: Young Bull

Jun 11, 2023 2 min read paid

We have some good news and some bad news for the bulls. The good news is that the S&P 500 is up 20.0% since October 12, which is widely viewed as the definition of a bull market (table). The bad news is that a picture of a bull is featured in the latest Barron's cover story titled, "Don't Fear the Bull Market.

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The Economic Week Ahead: June 12-16

Jun 10, 2023 2 min read paid

This will be a head spinning week. It could also be another rollercoaster ride in the financial markets. Maybe we should go on vacation and come back on Friday following the deluge of economic indicators from Monday through Thursday, and a FOMC meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday to boot. May's CPI will be released on Tuesday morning just as the FOMC convenes for a two-day meeting, which

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China's Post-Lockdown Recovery & Stimulus Disappoint

Jun 8, 2023 2 min read paid

The Chinese government started to lift its pandemic lockdown restrictions in early December last year. The economic rebound has been weaker than widely expected. Indeed, China's imports have been flat at a record high since mid-2021 and have remained so through May of this year (chart). Furthermore, inflation has been nonexistent as the Chinese CPI rose just 0.1% y/y in April, while the country'

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Rally Could Broaden Led By Financials

Jun 7, 2023 2 min read paid

The stock market rally narrowed significantly when the banking crisis clobbered the S&P 500's Financials sector in March (chart). The bears have been saying that this is a bearish development. We've been thinking that the rally could broaden once investors stop worrying about which banks are vulnerable to deposit runs and loan losses. Instead, we've been suggesting that investors should be focusing

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Onshoring Is Happening Now. Don't Underestimate MAMA!

Jun 6, 2023 2 min read

Don't underestimate "MAMA," which stands for “Making America Manufacture Again.” Manufacturers, large and small, domestic and foreign, are tapping into the trillions of dollars of incentives available in the CHIPS and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to build factories in the US. They plan to make semiconductors, batteries, solar equipment, electric vehicles (EVs), and green hydrogen, among

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Oil's Slippery Slope

Jun 5, 2023 2 min read paid

The Saudis are kicking the barrel down the road. Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman announced an extra 1 million barrel-a-day (mbd) supply cut in July following a tense OPEC+ meeting in Vienna over the weekend. “Others in the group pledged to maintain existing cuts until the end of 2024,” Bloomberg reported, “though Russia made no commitment to curb output further and the United Arab Emirates secured

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