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LAST WEEK
Stock Markets Mueller'd As Yield Curve
Collapse Continues
Investors
Pad the Coffers of Money Market Funds During the Thanksgiving Holiday Flows
Week
NEXT WEEK
The ECB’s Financial Stability Review
expresses concern about increased risk-taking behaviour in financial markets.
Such behaviour increases the sensitivity of markets to unexpected developments
in the economy. Accommodative monetary policy is a balancing act when growth is
robust, inflation low and asset valuations rich.
We
expect solid US payrolls and earnings numbers underpinning the case for a rate
hike in December and more hikes next year. The Nordic housing saga will
continue with Norwegian house price data. We don’t think that the drop in house
prices is over.
Monday:
Brexit phase 1 deadline, Friday: US jobs
US curve flattening continues; and we look
at possible explanations. We believe the factors that have driven the
flattening, including expected market pricing of more Fed hikes in 2018, in a
low
inflation environment will continue to
flatten the US curve over the next couple of quarters.
US: Political risk vs tax reform * Europe:
Is growth improving?
2018
Outlooks for Defaults and Profits Imply Ample Liquidity
All
of the US equity indices made new all-time highs this week, for the first time
since mid-October. SPX and DJIA have
risen 8 months in a row. By some measures, investor sentiment is more bullish
now than at any other time in more than a year, driven, apparently, by
enthusiasm for tax reform legislation. The current uptrend is extended, and may
be getting ready to take a short break, but further gains are likely during the
first several months of 2018.
Greenback
Shakes on US Political Developments: Now What?
Weekly Macro Comment – Marc
Chandler
Politics
may Continue to Overshadow Economics
FX Weekly: 3
reasons why EUR/USD is not trading lower – Nordea
US
politics get a lot of the blame for the current re-weakening of the USD, but
there are also other explanations . And with another week of weakening SEK and
in particular NOK, we take a look at Scandi-pricing from a historical
perspective.