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Jeroen Blokland

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<li>Gold Has closed at its highest monthly close price ever! And further gains lie ahead in the coming years. Yet, most multi-asset investors still do not have any exposure to the yellow metal.</li>
<li>What if not the Fed but the ECB cuts rates first? Incoming inflation data suggests a 2024 combination of deflation and recession is increasingly likely, leaving the ECB little room but lower rates.</li>
<li>Oil fell as OPEC+ half-heartedly presented another one million barrels per day production cut, which has written ‘voluntary’ all over it.</li>
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Gold Has closed at its highest monthly close price ever! And further gains lie ahead in the coming years. Yet, most multi-asset investors still do not have any exposure to the yellow metal.
What if not the Fed but the ECB cuts rates first? Incoming inflation data suggests a 2024 combination of deflation and recession is increasingly likely, leaving the ECB little room but lower rates.
Oil fell as OPEC+ half-heartedly presented another one million barrels per day production cut, which has written ‘voluntary’ all over it.


The Weekly Market Monitor – Gold Shines, Oil Slumps, and Yields Should Reverse

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Macroeconomics

<ul><li>Rates continue lower. More and earlier rate cuts are priced in as inflation loses momentum and downside risks to the economy increase.</li><li>Part of the drop in longer rates may reflect revisited structural views.</li><li>One year ago today, markets expected the ECB to hike its key policy rate to just below 3% and then cut rates again to around 2.30% (green line). </li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Rates continue lower. More and earlier rate cuts are priced in as inflation loses momentum and downside risks to the economy increase.Part of the drop in longer rates may reflect revisited structural views.One year ago today, markets expected the ECB to hike its key policy rate to just below 3% and then cut rates again to around 2.30% (green line). Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Junior Finance Analyst, Steno Research

Ulrik Simmelholt

Junior Finance Analyst

Macro and Geopolitical Research House

Steno Research

Steno Research is a new macro and geopolitical research house. We are based out of Copenhagen, Denmark, but have an international team and a strong network of sources and partners around the world. The team is lead by Andreas Steno, previous global head of strategy at Nordea Bank, and Mikkel Rosenvold, former chief consultant in the Danish Ministry of Finance.

<ul><li>We start off this week’s 5 Things We Watch by having a look at the reactions of CBs.</li><li>This is followed by talking about EURflation and the upcoming OPEC meeting and we then move on to talking about the Ifo numbers released last week while lastly finishing off with Dutch politics.</li><li>The Fed is the most plausible “pauser”.</li></ul>

We start off this week’s 5 Things We Watch by having a look at the reactions of CBs.This is followed by talking about EURflation and the upcoming OPEC meeting and we then move on to talking about the Ifo numbers released last week while lastly finishing off with Dutch politics.The Fed is the most plausible “pauser”.

5 Things We Watch: CBs, Eurflation, OPEC, Ifo, Dutch Politics

Head of Research and Global Chief Strategist, Steno Research

Andreas Steno

Head of Research and Global Chief Strategist

<ul><li>We have used the 2007 = 2023 analogy a few times already this year and we continue to find coincidental evidence that looks a lot like the emerging pressures built up in the quarters preceding the financial crisis.</li><li>The outcome of 2024 is still up in the air, but credit indicators do not look pretty ahead of next year when we combine the impulse in China, the US and the Euro area in an aggregate model and judging from the central bank behavior, we see a lot of similarities to 2007 across the BoJ, the Fed and the ECB.</li><li>Let’s briefly explain why in this central bank watch piece! </li></ul>

We have used the 2007 = 2023 analogy a few times already this year and we continue to find coincidental evidence that looks a lot like the emerging pressures built up in the quarters preceding the financial crisis.The outcome of 2024 is still up in the air, but credit indicators do not look pretty ahead of next year when we combine the impulse in China, the US and the Euro area in an aggregate model and judging from the central bank behavior, we see a lot of similarities to 2007 across the BoJ, the Fed and the ECB.Let’s briefly explain why in this central bank watch piece! 

G3 Central Bank Watch: More Fuel to the 2007 = 2023 Analogy

<ul><li>We see clear downside risks to the consensus forecasts for November inflation in Europe due to small seasonal expectations for price cuts in various seasonally dependent cost categories.</li><li>In our preview, we will assess the scope for surprises in the core countries and on the aggregate Euro area level.</li><li>Especially German inflation looks seasonally high in the consensus forecast.</li></ul>

We see clear downside risks to the consensus forecasts for November inflation in Europe due to small seasonal expectations for price cuts in various seasonally dependent cost categories.In our preview, we will assess the scope for surprises in the core countries and on the aggregate Euro area level.Especially German inflation looks seasonally high in the consensus forecast.

EUR Inflation Watch: Another Dovish Surprise Due to Black Week/Month?

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Nordea

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Steno Research

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Steno Research

EUR Inflation Watch: Another Dovish Surprise Due to Black Week/Month?

We see clear downside risks to the consensus forecasts for November inflation in Europe due to small seasonal expectations for price cuts in...

Steno Research

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