Brace for trouble, but don't speculate on it
This is likely to be a painful economic downturn – not because of massive job and output losses, but because of losses in the value of things that people count as their assets (primarily housing, non-agency mortgage debt, and equities). Foreigners provided a large portion of the capital that fueled the runup in asset prices, so they will undoubtedly bear a good portion of the subsequent losses through dollar depreciation and writeoffs in the value of their U.S. financial assets. A number of foreign banks have already experienced large losses and writeoffs. The simple fact is that international diversification typically helps least when the U.S. markets are in disarray.
The recent oversold bounce in the U.S. stock market does not change these fundamentals. We remain open to the possibility that investors will adopt a fresh willingness to speculate, but we need to observe further improvement in market internals in order to draw that conclusion. In the meantime, January's oversold condition is “cleared,” and the market is again overbought in a still unfavorable Market Climate. I noted similar conditions in the December 10 comment (S&P 1515.96), just before the market slide turned brutal. I currently view a fresh plunge as a significant risk. The other growing risk is to the U.S. dollar, largely because of the move to a negative carry between U.S. and Chinese interest rates in recent weeks.
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Auratico.... richtig...Man zieht sich dann in eigentlich wenig attraktive Treasuries zurück, was den Dollar vor einem weiteren Verfall erstmal schützt...haben wir gerade bei der Dollarstaerke.
Nur das Credit rating eines T-Bonds von USA hat ein schwindliches Credit rating als Schulden Nation. ![]()