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<li>The benchmark, CRB Commodity Index, ended the week 3,4% lower.</li>
<li>It was a tough week for investors who have long positions on commodities in place.</li>
<li>While the mass media is already calling for an end of the commodity bull market, I do think that we only see a correction, which we can use for re-entries in commodities with structural supply problems.</li>
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The benchmark, CRB Commodity Index, ended the week 3,4% lower.
It was a tough week for investors who have long positions on commodities in place.
While the mass media is already calling for an end of the commodity bull market, I do think that we only see a correction, which we can use for re-entries in commodities with structural supply problems.


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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The Ukraine/Russia war has been the significant geopolitical event this year that has dominated market headlines with the different twists and turns of sanctions, threats, and political press conferences that have led to market moving changes and positioning in certain sectors and their related stocks.</li>
<li>There is now emerging evidence that the market has digested the “war premium” for many of these post-invasion moves and many areas are now breaking down in the face of concerns over macro GDP growth.</li>
<li>One of the more significant areas impacted by the invasion of Ukraine was the agricultural sector.</li>
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The Ukraine/Russia war has been the significant geopolitical event this year that has dominated market headlines with the different twists and turns of sanctions, threats, and political press conferences that have led to market moving changes and positioning in certain sectors and their related stocks.
There is now emerging evidence that the market has digested the “war premium” for many of these post-invasion moves and many areas are now breaking down in the face of concerns over macro GDP growth.
One of the more significant areas impacted by the invasion of Ukraine was the agricultural sector.


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Macroeconomics

<ul><li>In yesterday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing, Powell brought his hawkish stance to new highs: a strong economy underpinned by healthy levels of consumers’ savings, 100 bps hikes not off the table, and to top it off a good likelihood the Fed will actively sell (!) mortgage-backed securities from their balance sheet.</li><li>Well, there is a big news: for the first time in 8 months, the bond market isn’t compounding Powell’s hawkish rhetoric.</li><li>Instead, fixed income investors have become loud enough we can almost hear them ask one big question: a recession is becoming increasingly likely, so what are you going to do about it J-Pow?</li></ul>

In yesterday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing, Powell brought his hawkish stance to new highs: a strong economy underpinned by healthy levels of consumers’ savings, 100 bps hikes not off the table, and to top it off a good likelihood the Fed will actively sell (!) mortgage-backed securities from their balance sheet.Well, there is a big news: for the first time in 8 months, the bond market isn’t compounding Powell’s hawkish rhetoric.Instead, fixed income investors have become loud enough we can almost hear them ask one big question: a recession is becoming increasingly likely, so what are you going to do about it J-Pow?

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Mark Tinker has over 35 years experience as an investor, market strategist and economist. Having spent more than 20 years as a sell side strategist and being top rated on numerous occasions and surveys he moved to investment management in 2006 to run global equity portfolios in London and subsequently moved to Hong Kong in 2013 to help establish an Investment Management business for a top 20 international asset manager. He first started writing investment weeklies for his employers in 1989, developing a style characterised under the title Market Thinking and has been a regular commentator and presenter on CNBC, Bloomberg and other business channels, where his approach of rationalising market behaviour rather than making short term predictions on high frequency market data provides a welcome balance to his client audience.

Making Sense of the Narrative

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<li>Bond market volatility continues to lead all markets lower, triggering a further round of deleveraging.</li>
<li>Cryptos have been crushed and Credit markets appear to have hit capitulation, even if equities have not.</li>
<li>FX volatility, especially in the Yen, is also causing, as well as reflecting, distress in terms of forced buying/distressed selling and is being exaggerated by the (VaR) volatility based risk management models that trigger further deleveraging of balance sheets.</li>
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Bond market volatility continues to lead all markets lower, triggering a further round of deleveraging.
Cryptos have been crushed and Credit markets appear to have hit capitulation, even if equities have not.
FX volatility, especially in the Yen, is also causing, as well as reflecting, distress in terms of forced buying/distressed selling and is being exaggerated by the (VaR) volatility based risk management models that trigger further deleveraging of balance sheets.


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<li>Heading into yesterday’s Fed meeting, the bond market asked a tough question to Powell: do you mean business?</li>
<li>Powell took a ‘’Bad Cop, Good Cop’’ stance: he answered with a firm ‘’Yes’’ at first, and then tried to soften the message during the press conference.</li>
<li>This spurred a relief rally in risk assets, but it won’t last.<br>Bond markets hate half-hearted stances, and they will keep testing the Fed and risk assets until they get what they want: clarity.</li>
</ul>


Heading into yesterday’s Fed meeting, the bond market asked a tough question to Powell: do you mean business?
Powell took a ‘’Bad Cop, Good Cop’’ stance: he answered with a firm ‘’Yes’’ at first, and then tried to soften the message during the press conference.
This spurred a relief rally in risk assets, but it won’t last. Bond markets hate half-hearted stances, and they will keep testing the Fed and risk assets until they get what they want: clarity.


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