“Davidson” submits: Q3 2019 hedge fund letters, conferences and more US Household Survey reported a rise of 241,000 while vehicle sales estimates appear to be holding steady. Real Personal Income recorded a new high. The Dallas Fed reported the 12mo Trimmed Mean PCE at 2.06% which showed a revised and slightly...
So, I got a question on PG&E on today’s podcast and gave my two cents on it. Q3 2019 hedge fund letters, conferences and more I am also attending the Distressed Investing Conference on December 2nd in NYC that Peter Chapman is putting on. annca / Pixabay These conferences are amazing and the...
“Davidson” submits: Q3 2019 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Daily details matter, especially during periods of shifting market psychology. Inversion in the T-Bill/10yr Treasury rates occurred May 2019 after a tumultuous period of rapidly falling 10yr Treasury rates beginning Nov 2018 with the onset of the Chinese attempt to take...
“Davidson” submits: Q3 2019 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Follow up-many call for fiscal stimulus, i.e. govt spending on infrastructure. Not recognized is that regulation reduction costs nothing and has a significant positive fiscal stimulus that lasts years. Economic indicators continue to confound those expecting a recession simply because we have...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc The Household Survey Employment adds 391,000 and Light Weight Vehicle SAAR is reported to be 17.23 mil units. CNBC called this “…terrible” and “…a mealy peach of a report, not great”. The data shows continuation of the employment trend since 2009. With...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc It is useful to note that the Value Investor Index does not adjust w/rates. It is based on long-term SP500 EPS and the Natural Rate(based on long-term economic fundamentals). The Natural Rate is based on the long-term Real Private GDP trend and...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Investing is the task of separating misperception from fact and market psychology from business and economic fundamentals. The goal is to ascertain when the market psychology of a misinformed consensus differs enough from economic and business trends to provide investment opportunity. The...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc A rate cut from the Fed is widely expected. Many believe the US has entered a recession and that rate action by the Fed is required. History suggests no cut!. The first observation one can make is that the Fed’s history of rate...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Real Retail and Food Svc Sales post new high with revisions higher for past months. Little market response to this report with a couple advisors predicting today’s market at a top with a recession imminent. Last week the Household Survey posted a...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Many take the PMI as a measure of manufacturing activity when it is in fact a survey of manufacturer psychology. The CAB is mostly hard data measures of economic activity but does include chemical producer equity prices which shift with market psychology....
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc US Crude Inventories fall to 33mil BBL below the 5yr mov avg. Previous instances when this has occurred has resulted in traders driving $WTI higher. US Crude Inv 33mil BBL below 5yr mov avg US Oil Production 12.4mil BBL/Day US Gasoline Stocks...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Household Survey Employment grew 590,000, far above the 130,000 reported by the Establishment Survey. The Household report, a statistical survey, covers self-employed while the Establishment report, from established payrolls, does not. What matters most is the trend. The Establishment reports are routinely...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Highlights: US Crude Inventories 25.7mil BBL below 5yr mov avg. Tied to algorithms and believed to be a sign of economic strength/weakness, current trend suggest a marked shift to positive market psychology. Economic strength has continued on trend since 2009 with the...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc You may have noticed that it seems that every pundit is forecasting recession claiming to see all the signs of economic weakness. It seems they have ignored record employment, record retail sales and record personal income with no changes in trends from...
The new pipeline capacity will cause WTI to rise as shipping costs are lowered materially. Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Davidson submits: E&P Activity at a high, E&P Efficiency stalls a little. The data for these indices have a 2mo lag. Key to this data is the recent stall in...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Maklay62 / Pixabay These are some thoughts on a topic I have been learning the past couple of years. We have developed a political class in this country that has acted to give away wealth and in the process made themselves wealthy. The...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Job Openings and Temp Help indices are good indicators of the demand for labor. There are multiple drivers behind employment trends with shifts in industry demand across every economic cycle which do not repeat cycle-to-cycle. Each cycle has its own themes which...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Tariffs and Inflation. The Inflation Bogyman that is not there: The consensus interpretation of tariffs is that higher tariffs are inflationary for the country imposing them. In the current market, US tariffs on imported Chinese goods should be inflationary because the tariffs are...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc The impact of autocratic/socialistic and basically corrupt governments taking value from its citizens has always resulted in capital fleeing those countries to safer havens, i.e. gold or assets priced in safer currencies. Recent US$ strength beginning with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc The interest rate chart of 10yr, 3mo Treas, Rate Spread & Fed Funds Daily shows the current Fed policy of raising FFunds rate to equal T-Bill rates after T-Bill rates rose about 25bps(0.25%). This deviated from 70yrs of Fed history of keeping FFund rates...
The numbers below do not take into account Exxon restarting Baytown very soon that will take another 600,000bbl/day off the market. Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc “Davidson” submits: US Crude Inv falls 9.5mil BBL & Gasoline Inv fall 1.5mil BBL With this report, US Crude Inv sits ~13mil BBL above...
“Davidson” submits: Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc 3844328 / Pixabay Rates are like anything else in markets. They are set by market psychology. Central banks think they control rates but they do not. Rates everywhere are set by investor shifts of capital as they seek the best rates of return...
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