Head of Research and Global Chief Strategist, Steno Research

Andreas Steno

Head of Research and Global Chief Strategist

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.

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<ul><li>Hello everyone, and welcome back to our weekly positioning watch, where we as always try to dig down into the latest positioning data and give you an overview of what’s moving narrative currently.</li><li>Sentiment and positioning are still skewed towards hopes of a soft landing, with bets being placed on lower yields, a weaker dollar, booming equities and almost non-existent credit spreads – ironically a prime condition for an upcoming recession (which is still our base case for H1 2024).</li><li>General media and story counts are also all about the soft landing vs recession, with the mentionings of “recession” back at pre-COVID levels, while soft landing counts are on the rise, although pulling a bit back from recent highs.</li></ul>

Hello everyone, and welcome back to our weekly positioning watch, where we as always try to dig down into the latest positioning data and give you an overview of what’s moving narrative currently.Sentiment and positioning are still skewed towards hopes of a soft landing, with bets being placed on lower yields, a weaker dollar, booming equities and almost non-existent credit spreads – ironically a prime condition for an upcoming recession (which is still our base case for H1 2024).General media and story counts are also all about the soft landing vs recession, with the mentionings of “recession” back at pre-COVID levels, while soft landing counts are on the rise, although pulling a bit back from recent highs.

Positioning Watch – All About the Soft Landing Narrative

<ul><li>Happy Sunday and welcome to our weekly flagship editorial.</li><li>The soft landing narrative has seen material tailwinds over the past 6-8 weeks, while the recession narrative is fading fast.</li><li>This is the first prerequisite for an actual recession as a recession never arrives when everyone plans for one.</li></ul>

Happy Sunday and welcome to our weekly flagship editorial.The soft landing narrative has seen material tailwinds over the past 6-8 weeks, while the recession narrative is fading fast.This is the first prerequisite for an actual recession as a recession never arrives when everyone plans for one.

Steno Signals #75 – The 2007/2008 Playbook Is Useful Again

Head of Research, Steno Research

Emil Moller

Head of Research

<ul><li>Main points: Fed is riding a blind horse by letting the market dictate policy as we enter Q1 and we think that the cumulative effect of the great tightening along with the pending lags won’t be undone by the temporary easing of Financial Conditions</li><li>Rates will struggle to keep up at these levels as the disinflation (also) has a tightening component to it if rates don’t follow suit</li><li>Current labour market easing we have seen since peak is still consistent with usual recessionary patterns but is unlike to evolve in a linear manner from here.</li></ul>

Main points: Fed is riding a blind horse by letting the market dictate policy as we enter Q1 and we think that the cumulative effect of the great tightening along with the pending lags won’t be undone by the temporary easing of Financial ConditionsRates will struggle to keep up at these levels as the disinflation (also) has a tightening component to it if rates don’t follow suitCurrent labour market easing we have seen since peak is still consistent with usual recessionary patterns but is unlike to evolve in a linear manner from here.

Out of the Box #24 : Too Little Too Late Powell?

Junior Finance Analyst, Steno Research

Ulrik Simmelholt

Junior Finance Analyst

<ul><li>We start off this week’s 5 Things We Watch by having a look at the Ifo survey coming up this Friday in the midst of the Schwarze Null ruling.</li><li>This is followed by talking about US rates and Nvidia earnings and we then move on to talking about the USD while lastly finishing off with gasoline demand.</li><li>Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government is challenged by the Constitutional Court’s ruling from last week on special fund financing outside the regular budget.</li></ul>

We start off this week’s 5 Things We Watch by having a look at the Ifo survey coming up this Friday in the midst of the Schwarze Null ruling.This is followed by talking about US rates and Nvidia earnings and we then move on to talking about the USD while lastly finishing off with gasoline demand.Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government is challenged by the Constitutional Court’s ruling from last week on special fund financing outside the regular budget.

5 Things We Watch: IFO, US Rates, Earnings Revisions, USD & Gasoline

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FX & Rates

<ul><li>The USD is trading softer again overall on the session so far but the DXY is trading a little above its intraday low after EURUSD peaked around 1.0960 resistance earlier in the session and drifted off its best levels.</li><li>The JPY is the topperforming currency among the core majors on the day, racking up a 0.5% gain and rising to a two-month high.</li><li>Growing conviction that the Fed rate tightening cycle is complete, and that the next move from the Fed will be a cut, is supporting a rebound in the very depressed JPY. </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>

The USD is trading softer again overall on the session so far but the DXY is trading a little above its intraday low after EURUSD peaked around 1.0960 resistance earlier in the session and drifted off its best levels.The JPY is the topperforming currency among the core majors on the day, racking up a 0.5% gain and rising to a two-month high.Growing conviction that the Fed rate tightening cycle is complete, and that the next move from the Fed will be a cut, is supporting a rebound in the very depressed JPY. 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.

FX Daily - USD Losses May Moderate in Short Term

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Positioning Watch – All About the Soft Landing Narrative

Hello everyone, and welcome back to our weekly positioning watch, where we as always try to dig down into the latest positioning data and give you...

Steno Research

Steno Signals #75 – The 2007/2008 Playbook Is Useful Again

The soft landing narrative has seen material tailwinds over the past 6-8 weeks, while the recession narrative is fading fast.

Steno Research

Out of the Box #24 : Too Little Too Late Powell?

We have been rather vocal about how we find that the odds of a hike are perhaps a bit higher than what the market is willing to accept at this point.

Steno Research

5 Things We Watch: IFO, US Rates, Earnings Revisions, USD & Gasoline

We start off this week’s 5 Things We Watch by having a look at the Ifo survey coming up this Friday in the midst of the Schwarze Null ruling. This...

Steno Research

FX Daily - USD Losses May Moderate in Short Term

The USD is trading softer again overall on the session so far but the DXY is trading a little above its intraday low after EURUSD peaked around...

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