Fixed Income and Currency Strategist

Gautam Jain, PhD, CFA

FX & Rates

While our baseline scenario remains one of the US dollar trading in a range over the coming months, the risk of the range being breached in the near term has increased due to rising US Treasury yields, the possibility of a US government shutdown, an ongoing energy crisis in Europe, and risks from China including a growth slowdown, crackdown of tech companies, and the debt default of one of the largest property developers. Given these risks, for the time being, we recommend hedging EM currencies with the euro, as the two have been highly correlated.Separately, the attached file is a snapshot of the EM currency market in which we seek to identify the leaders and laggards among currencies by comparing the performance of each to its history as well as to other currencies based on their respective betas to an EM currency index.

While our baseline scenario remains one of the US dollar trading in a range over the coming months, the risk of the range being breached in the near term has increased due to rising US Treasury yields, the possibility of a US government shutdown, an ongoing energy crisis in Europe, and risks from China including a growth slowdown, crackdown of tech companies, and the debt default of one of the largest property developers. Given these risks, for the time being, we recommend hedging EM currencies with the euro, as the two have been highly correlated.Separately, the attached file is a snapshot of the EM currency market in which we seek to identify the leaders and laggards among currencies by comparing the performance of each to its history as well as to other currencies based on their respective betas to an EM currency index.

FX Dashboard: Time to Hedge EM FX with Euro Again

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Another break has taken place in US Fixed Income markets - US 5-year yield is making higher highs for the yearThis break through 98 bps looks meaningful, especially if it sustains into month end or week endThe path seems to be set for a move to at least 1.30% and then as high as the 1.80% area probably in Q1 2022.While 2-year yield is also rising, it is unlikely to continue at the same pace. Instead, we would expect to see a steeper curve and a break through the year’s high of 80bps on the US 2s5sOverall, the picture is looking increasingly like that seen before the Fed tapering of 2013.

Another break has taken place in US Fixed Income markets - US 5-year yield is making higher highs for the yearThis break through 98 bps looks meaningful, especially if it sustains into month end or week endThe path seems to be set for a move to at least 1.30% and then as high as the 1.80% area probably in Q1 2022.While 2-year yield is also rising, it is unlikely to continue at the same pace. Instead, we would expect to see a steeper curve and a break through the year’s high of 80bps on the US 2s5sOverall, the picture is looking increasingly like that seen before the Fed tapering of 2013.

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We have been bullish/long the DXY from 89 and more recently from 92 with a target at 94.00-50 and the level to sell the USD and turn short the greenback. Early USD shorts touted in CAD and GBP.US 10yr rise to 1.50% call to support a final USD push into our sell zone. USD will also find a final bid on a secondary pullback in the US equity cycle (EM and Asia FX) in October.We see synergy with yield near 1.50% and a DXY top near 94.DXY bear divergence is maturing into a final drive to the 94+ zone. We want to sell the next USD push/new high.

We have been bullish/long the DXY from 89 and more recently from 92 with a target at 94.00-50 and the level to sell the USD and turn short the greenback. Early USD shorts touted in CAD and GBP.US 10yr rise to 1.50% call to support a final USD push into our sell zone. USD will also find a final bid on a secondary pullback in the US equity cycle (EM and Asia FX) in October.We see synergy with yield near 1.50% and a DXY top near 94.DXY bear divergence is maturing into a final drive to the 94+ zone. We want to sell the next USD push/new high.

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US macro data, including measures of US inflation, non-farm employment, retail sales, manufacturing output, ISM PMIs and consumer confidence indices, have been far less volatile since the peak in global risk aversion in March-April 2020 when the first national lockdowns decimated global growth. However, volatility in most of these monthly metrics remains high relative to history. This is particularly true for core CPI-inflation, non-farm employment, consumer confidence and the ISM non-manufacturing PMI. Yet volatility and directionality in US Treasury yields, including at the short-end of the curve, and in particular the Dollar has been modest in recent months. The Dollar NEER has oscillated in a range of just 1.7% for the past 11 weeks and within that range daily volatility has been very low. Moreover daily volatility in most major currencies has fallen further in the past month, with only a few notable exceptions. Volatility in the S&amp;P 500 has recently picked up but remains broadly in line with the past 12 months and has arguably been spurred by the Evergrande saga rather than by US (or global) macro data releases. Finally volatility and directionality in Brent crude oil prices have also been far more limited in recent weeks.That is of course not to say that US macro data have not mattered and will not matter going forward. They have and they will. At the very least macro data are a key input into Federal Reserve monetary policy which in turn has a strong bearing on US and global financial markets, as evidenced by markets’ reactions to the Fed’s 16th June policy. However, our analysis suggests that financial markets have become somewhat more detached from US macro data releases, even when these have materially deviated from consensus forecasts. At the very least their direct impact on US equity and interest rate markets and global FX and commodity markets has been modest in recent months.

US macro data, including measures of US inflation, non-farm employment, retail sales, manufacturing output, ISM PMIs and consumer confidence indices, have been far less volatile since the peak in global risk aversion in March-April 2020 when the first national lockdowns decimated global growth. However, volatility in most of these monthly metrics remains high relative to history. This is particularly true for core CPI-inflation, non-farm employment, consumer confidence and the ISM non-manufacturing PMI. Yet volatility and directionality in US Treasury yields, including at the short-end of the curve, and in particular the Dollar has been modest in recent months. The Dollar NEER has oscillated in a range of just 1.7% for the past 11 weeks and within that range daily volatility has been very low. Moreover daily volatility in most major currencies has fallen further in the past month, with only a few notable exceptions. Volatility in the S&amp;P 500 has recently picked up but remains broadly in line with the past 12 months and has arguably been spurred by the Evergrande saga rather than by US (or global) macro data releases. Finally volatility and directionality in Brent crude oil prices have also been far more limited in recent weeks.That is of course not to say that US macro data have not mattered and will not matter going forward. They have and they will. At the very least macro data are a key input into Federal Reserve monetary policy which in turn has a strong bearing on US and global financial markets, as evidenced by markets’ reactions to the Fed’s 16th June policy. However, our analysis suggests that financial markets have become somewhat more detached from US macro data releases, even when these have materially deviated from consensus forecasts. At the very least their direct impact on US equity and interest rate markets and global FX and commodity markets has been modest in recent months.

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In our monthly recap note, we provide a performance update for our weekly trade recommendations in currencies and rates. We also discuss the new recommendations as well as those that we closed over the past month. We have made a total of 23 trade recommendations so far, of which 17 are in the money.

In our monthly recap note, we provide a performance update for our weekly trade recommendations in currencies and rates. We also discuss the new recommendations as well as those that we closed over the past month. We have made a total of 23 trade recommendations so far, of which 17 are in the money.

Alpha Bites: Performance Summary of Trade Recommendations – September 2021

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