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Highlights The sheer magnitude of US fiscal stimulus makes forecasting especially challenging, … : It is very hard to say how unprecedented stimulus will impact the economy. … and it may already have scrambled established equity market patterns: Give a bored millennial a smartphone, a brokerage account app, commission-free trades and regular infusions of cash and you just might get a bear market bounce unlike any that’s ever been seen before. We are devoted to the idea that the simplest answers are the best and we think simplicity is particularly suited to navigating through elevated uncertainty: If growth is going to be solidly above trend and the Fed is going to maintain extremely accommodative monetary policy settings despite the risk of overheating, risk assets should outperform Treasuries and cash and investors ought to overweight them. Feature We spent much of last week speaking with investors outside of the US in a series of Zoom meetings. The themes that were most persistent in our discussions were inflation (Is it going to materialize and how bad could it be if it does?), the post-pandemic landscape (How will it be different and how should an investor position for it?), the duration of the equity bull market and the interest rate outlook. We had begun preparing a report that examined each of those themes in turn through the lens of our typical analytical process. As we progressed through that report, however, we found ourselves increasingly preoccupied with other topics we touched on in the calls and observations and questions that kept us thinking after the calls had ended. We will delve thoroughly into the themes that were raised on the calls as time goes by and evidence emerges that supports or challenges our current views. Those themes are important and will impact asset-allocation and security-selection decisions into at least the intermediate term. But this week we instead turn the spotlight on some of our impressions of the current economic landscape and how investors might navigate it. At the very least, it will serve as a change of pace, but we hope it will also be a jumping-off point for ongoing discussions about asset allocation and portfolio management. Uncharted Territory, Part One The word “unprecedented” got a lot of use and loomed over our analysis and recommendations. We believe in our analytical framework and we expect that financial markets and the US economy will most likely thrive over the next twelve months, supported by a “just-right” Goldilocks backdrop of outsized growth and extremely accommodative monetary policy. We think the probability of a “too-cold” outcome, in which growth disappoints despite the Fed’s best efforts, is steadily shrinking as vaccinations continue to outpace the rate required to confer herd immunity on the US by the end of September. While we think inflation will ultimately spell the end of the bull phases in financial markets and may even lead the Fed to induce a recession, we think it will be a couple of years before it can take root and bring about the market- and business-cycle denouements. The key word in those conclusions is think; we do not know that there will be a consumption surge that extends across several quarters, powering the US economy to grow at an inflation-adjusted rate of 4 to 5% across 2021 and 2022. We expect that the immunization campaign will squelch COVID-19 in the US at some point this summer, opening the way for the release of pent-up demand as households regain the full menu of consumption options and can once again return to restaurants, bars, airplanes, hotels, stadiums, concert venues, cinemas and theaters. Households have $2 trillion of excess savings to slake that demand, but we cannot know how much of them will be directed to consumption or the rate at which they will be released. It’s not that we don’t want to do the work; it’s that there is no empirical antecedent for this magnitude of fiscal transfers to households. The US has never before injected 25% of a year’s output into the economy across just two years (Chart 1). There is no way, then, to use past history to build a model regressing consumption growth against fiscal stimulus or a sudden surge in household savings driven by sweeping temporary constraints on activity. No way, at least, to build such a model with a reasonable degree of confidence in the predictive quality of its outputs. Chart 1We've Never Seen Anything Like This Before The bottom line, then, is that no investor or researcher should attach a great deal of confidence to his/her current expectations. Everyone in investment management is paid to have an opinion, but all of us should have a healthy degree of humility about our current opinions. All of our views right now are necessarily low-conviction. We eagerly await the ongoing flow of data that will shed some light on whether the consumption surge is materializing and if so, the segments in which it will be concentrated. We are also closely monitoring vaccination progress and the ongoing efficacy of the extant vaccines because victory over COVID-19 by the summer is not assured, even if we do hold our base-case virus view with more conviction than our consumption views. Uncharted Territory, Part Two Shutting down activity to limit interactions fostering the spread of COVID-19 was an eminently logical public health measure. It also made sense to bolster the activity restrictions with direct cash transfers to households to cushion the economic blow of abiding by them. The distributions presumably encouraged compliance with the restrictions, helping to slow the spread of the virus, while also relieving economic distress. But the combination may have borne the unintended consequence of upending established stock market dynamics, a matter of little import for the overall economy but a critical issue for professional investors. Technical analysis is often derided by fundamentally-oriented investors as something akin to astrology or voodoo. We are not dogmatic and are happy to use any tool that might be of value; although we are neither skilled technical analysts nor traders, we accept that technical analysis is the most useful framework for assessing very short-term moves. Even fundamental investors with longer-term time frames may find price charts useful for selecting entry and exit points. Pattern recognition, after all, is an essential investment skill and it’s largely what forward-thinking investors are paying for when they invest in buzzy artificial intelligence applications. Something that upends typical market patterns is therefore important and the economic impact payments and federal unemployment insurance (UI) benefit supplements provided for by the CARES Act and the two rounds of follow-up legislation may have stood the relationship of retail and institutional investors to market movements on its head. The bottom four income quintiles of US households received considerably more aid from the federal government than they needed, strictly speaking. Two-thirds of all taxpayers received the full amount of all three economic impact payments and four-fifths received at least a phased-out portion of them while only 25 million people were out of work at the employment trough in April, less than 10 million were out of work when the second round of checks went out in January and just over 8 million were idled during the current round. Those who were unemployed are estimated to have received CARES Act UI benefits that exceeded their previous compensation by more than a third.1 The net effect is that many idled workers found themselves stranded for several months in 2020 with more money than they could spend. Homer Simpson would have blissfully napped his way through his furlough, with a mountain of empty Duff cans filling the space between the couch and the television, but it’s not a stretch to think that millennials in the same position turned to their phones to relieve their tedium and discovered the joys of commission-free trading in the palm of their hands. Retail investors have traditionally been viewed as being the last to arrive at the party, flooding in at market tops only to seep out at market bottoms, while the smart institutional money drove the trends that retail flows belatedly followed. Over time, institutions following the same cues and adhering to the same heuristics established recognizable bull- and bear-market patterns, like extended bottoming processes and regular backing-and-filling that aligned with Fibonacci retracement levels. The GameStop tempest earlier this year may have been a manifestation of the larger issue that the market had been swamped by newbies who didn’t know the rules and therefore wound up trampling them. A seasoned trader-turned-quantitative-investment-performance-analyst commented to us last summer that these were “not the markets we grew up in.” From his perch at a top hedge fund, he viewed retail flows as having been the catalyst for the market recovery that wiped out the entire pandemic decline with barely a pause for breath (Chart 2). Seasoned analysts and portfolio managers waiting for a consolidation of the initial bounce wound up turbo-charging it as they chased the retail flows that got there ahead of them. “They just couldn’t stand the underperformance any longer,” he said. Chart 2A Whole New Ballgame See The Ball, Hit The Ball We follow careful analytical processes at BCA and our clients do as well, but we try not to overthink our investment conclusions once we reach them. We have found that the less a Little Leaguer is thinking about when s/he steps into the batter’s box, the better off s/he will be, and we think the approach applies to investors as well. Be as still as you can, watch the baseball out of the pitcher’s hand, step towards the pitcher and throw your hands at where you judge the ball will be just before it reaches home plate. Your weight will naturally follow your front leg and your hands and everything else will take care of itself if you correctly anticipated where the ball was headed. Our colleague Peter Berezin, BCA’s Chief Global Strategist, abides by a personal Investment Golden Rule: Stay bullish unless you think a recession is just around the corner. His rule aligns perfectly with our observation that bear markets and recessions tend to coincide (Chart 3). Although we cannot know how much of households’ aggregate excess savings will be spent or when, and we therefore cannot predict quarterly GDP growth to the nearest tenth of a percent, we are confident that the economy will grow at a rate well above its real annual long-run potential of 2%, provided that the pandemic doesn’t spring a nasty surprise on the US. If the economy does grow well above its trend rate in 2021 and 2022 (Chart 4), and the Fed lives up to its pledge to remove monetary accommodation only in response to lagged measures of consumer price inflation and labor market strength, stocks should comfortably generate returns in excess of those on cash and Treasuries and multi-asset investors should overweight them (Tables 1 and 2). Chart 3Recessions And Bear Markets Tend To Travel Together Chart 4Earnings Grow When The Economy Grows, And Stocks Move With Earnings Table 1Stocks Thrive When Policy Is Easy, ... Table 2… Especially In Real Terms Steering Portfolios Through Uncertainty Acknowledging the uncertainty inherent in predictions made in the current environment, with its unprecedented fiscal stimulus, is all well and good, but professional investors have a mandate to invest regardless of their conviction levels. How should they navigate through the next twelve months aside from overweighting equities in multi-asset portfolios? The basic rule guiding our answer in this case is to stay within sight of the shore if there’s a possibility that the weather might change suddenly. Given that no one knows how the big swing factors impacting output and the balance between capacity and aggregate demand – consumer caprice, anti-vaccination sentiment, reopening timetables and labor force participation – will turn out, we think that investors’ first order of business should be to prepare to shorten holding periods. Conviction levels will evolve over time as incoming data validate or contradict investment theses but it is important to be prepared mentally to manage portfolios more dynamically in line with unprecedented conditions. Individual managers and investment committees who prepare to adjust their procedures, perhaps by setting stop levels and/or rebalancing thresholds in advance, will find it much easier to do so in real time should it turn out to be appropriate. Investors may also consider reducing deviations from their benchmarks. Increasing the frequency of portfolio rebalancing, shifting from time to level thresholds, or tightening level thresholds are ways that investors with rebalancing guidelines could narrow deviations. Investors who don't rebalance can reduce their initial position deviations and/or their portfolio concentrations. Shortening holding periods and increasing rebalancing frequencies implies harvesting gains more often and is therefore tax-inefficient, but we think it may be worth sacrificing some tax efficiency to protect overall portfolio value at a time of elevated uncertainty. Doug Peta, CFA Chief US Investment Strategist dougp@bcaresearch.com Footnotes 1 Ganong, Peter and Noel, Pascal and Vavra, Joseph, US Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic (August 24, 2020). University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2020-62.
Highlights After staging a tentative rebound in the first three months of the year, the US dollar has resumed its weakening trend. We expect the greenback to drift lower over the next 12 months, as global growth momentum rotates from the US to the rest of the world, the Fed maintains its ultra-accommodative monetary stance, and the US struggles to finance its burgeoning trade deficit. China will provide adequate fiscal and monetary support for its economy, which will buoy commodity prices, the yuan, and other EM currencies. The Canadian dollar should strengthen as the Bank of Canada continues to shrink its balance sheet with the goal of lifting rates by the end of 2022. EUR/USD is on track to rise to 1.25 by year-end. The pound will strengthen against the euro. While the yen’s defensive nature will limit any gains in the currency, a cheap valuation and relatively high Japanese real rates will keep downside risks in check. Global Growth Momentum To Rotate From The US To The Rest Of The World Sizable upward revisions to US growth projections gave the US dollar a modest boost in the first quarter of 2021 (Chart 1). According to Bloomberg consensus estimates, US real GDP grew by 5.4% in the first quarter, spurred on by massive fiscal stimulus and a speedy vaccination rollout. In contrast, real GDP in the euro area, the UK, and Japan contracted (Table 1). Chart 1A Dovish Fed Kept The Dollar From Strengthening Much This Year Despite Strong US Growth Vis-À-Vis The Rest Of The World Table 1Growth In Major Advanced Countries Is Expected To Start Catching Up To The US Later This Year While economic momentum still favors the US in the second quarter, the gap with other countries will narrow dramatically. The US economy is on track to expand by 8.1% in the current quarter. Bloomberg consensus expects the euro area to grow by 7.4%, the UK by 17.4%, and Japan by 4.7%. Looking out to the third quarter, both the euro area and the UK are poised to grow faster than the US. Continental Europe, in particular, should see much stronger growth in the second half of 2021 following a sluggish start to the vaccine rollout. Enough Vaccines For All? The vaccination campaign has gotten off to a slow start in most emerging markets. The spread of more contagious Covid-19 variants has led to a surge in infections in some regions. Notably, India is reporting over 300,000 new cases a day. Matters should improve on the pandemic front for many developing economies later this year. Assuming that vaccine makers are able to achieve their production targets, the Duke University Global Health Innovation Center estimates that 12 billion vaccine doses will be produced in 2021. This would be enough to vaccinate 75% of the world’s population, close to most measures of “herd immunity.” China Will Maintain Ample Policy Support Chart 2Real Rate Differentials Moved In Favor Of The Dollar At The Long End Of The Curve In Q1, But Not At The Short End Investor concerns that the Chinese authorities are about to reverse stimulus measures are overblown. Jing Sima, BCA’s chief China strategist, expects the general government budget deficit to average 8% of GDP in 2021, largely unchanged from 2020 levels. She sees credit growth falling from 15% in 2020 to 12% this year (in line with her estimate of nominal GDP growth). Given that China’s debt-to-GDP ratio stands at 270%, credit growth of 12% would leave the outstanding stock of credit roughly 33 trillion yuan (32% of GDP) higher at the end of 2021 compared to end-2020. That is a lot of new credit formation, all of which should buoy commodity prices, the yuan, and other EM currencies. Rate Differentials Remain Dollar Bearish Despite strong US growth, US 2-year real rates have continued to decline in relation to rates abroad. Long-term yield differentials did rise in favor of the US in the first three months of the year, giving the dollar a lift. However, long-term differentials have since reversed course, which helps account for the dollar’s renewed weakness (Chart 2). The Fed’s dovish stance explains why stronger growth has given so little support to the dollar. The 10-year Treasury yield generally tracks the expected Fed funds rate two-to-three years out (Chart 3). At present, the markets are as hawkish relative to the median Fed dot as they have ever been (Chart 4). Chart 3Bond Yields Are Unlikely To Rise Much Unless The Market Lifts Its Estimate Of Where The Fed Funds Rate Will Be 2-To-3 Years Out Chart 4The Market Is Very Hawkish Relative To The Fed Dots This doesn’t mean that market expectations cannot get more hawkish from here. However, for this to happen, the Fed would need to start aggressively talking up the prospect of tapering asset purchases and accelerating the timeline to hiking rates. This does not seem probable to us. Chart 5Prime-Age Employment Remains Well Below Pre-Pandemic Levels The prime-age employment-to-population ratio is still 3.7 percentage points below pre-pandemic levels (Chart 5). Overall US employment is about 5% below where it was in January 2020. Among workers earning less than $20 per hour, employment is down more than 10% (Chart 6). While some firms have complained about a shortage of workers, this likely reflects the combination of generous unemployment benefits (which expire in September) and lingering fears about catching the virus from work (which will abate as more people are vaccinated). Just as was the case following the Great Recession – when market commentary was rife with talk about a permanent increase in “structural unemployment” – concerns that the pandemic has led to lasting labor market damage will prove to be largely unfounded. Chart 6US Employment Still Down About 5% From Its Pre-Pandemic Levels The Dollar Faces Balance Of Payments Pressures The dollar is not a cheap currency. It is 13% overvalued based on Purchasing Power Parity exchange rates (Chart 7). One of the consequences of the dollar’s overvaluation has been a persistent trade deficit. As Chart 8 shows, the US trade deficit in goods and services has widened sharply since early 2020. Chart 7The Dollar Is Expensive Based On Its PPP Fair Value Chart 8The Widening US Trade Deficit Excessively large budget deficits drain national savings, leading to a larger current account deficit. Hence, the dollar has usually weakened whenever the government has eased fiscal policy beyond what was necessary to close the output gap (Chart 9). Foreigners have been net sellers of Treasurys this year. To a large extent, equity inflows have supported the dollar (Chart 10). However, if growth rotates from the US to the rest of the world, non-US stock markets are likely to outperform. This could cause foreign equity inflows into the US to turn into outflows. The dollar would then need to weaken to make US stocks more attractive in foreign-currency terms. Chart 9The Dollar Usually Weakens Whenever The Government Eases Fiscal Policy Beyond What Is Necessary To Close The Output Gap Chart 10Equity Inflows Supported The Dollar This Year Technicals Point To A Weaker Dollar For many investment decisions, being a contrarian is a smart strategy. This does not apply to trading the US dollar, however. The dollar is a high momentum currency (Chart 11). When it comes to the dollar, you want to be a trend follower. Chart 11The Dollar Is A High Momentum Currency Chart 12 shows that a simple trading rule that bought the dollar index when it was trading above its moving average would have made money, whereas a rule that bought the index when it was below its moving average would have lost money. While trading rules using short-term moving averages work best, even long-term moving average rules yield profitable results. Chart 12ATrading The Dollar: Follow Momentum (I) Chart 12BTrading The Dollar: Follow Momentum (II) Today, the dollar is trading below all of its various moving averages, which points to further downside for the currency. The dollar’s momentum status extends to sentiment. In general, the dollar is more likely to strengthen when sentiment is already bullish. On the flipside, the dollar is more likely to weaken when sentiment is bearish. At present, dollar sentiment is bearish, which increases the odds of further dollar weakness (Chart 13). Chart 13ABeing A Contrarian Doesn’t Pay When It Comes To Trading The Dollar (I) Chart 13BBeing A Contrarian Doesn't Pay When It Comes To Trading The Dollar (II) Chart 14Seasonality In The FX, Bond, And Equity Markets Finally, the dollar has tended to exhibit seasonal fluctuations. In general, the greenback has strengthened in the first half of the year and weakened in the second half (Chart 14). It is not entirely clear what explains this phenomenon, but it is worth noting that since 1985, almost all of the cumulative decline in Treasury yields has occurred in the back half of the year. Cyclical Currencies Are Most Likely To Strengthen Against The US Dollar Cyclical (i.e., high-beta) currencies will fare best against the US dollar over the next 12 months. In the EM space, strong global growth will benefit the Mexican peso, Chilean peso, Brazilian real, South African rand, Korean won, and the Indonesian rupiah. In the developed economy sphere, the Swedish krona, Norwegian krone, and Australian and Canadian dollars are poised to appreciate the most. We are particularly bullish on the loonie. The Bank of Canada announced on Wednesday that it will reduce the weekly pace of government bond purchases from C$4 billion to C$3 billion. Even before this announcement, the BoC’s balance sheet was shrinking following the decision to scale back repo operations and discontinue several other asset purchase programs. The BoC also indicated that it expects the Canadian economy to return to full employment in the second half of 2022, which should set the stage for the first rate hike by the end of next year. We expect EUR/USD to reach 1.25 by year-end. The British pound will strengthen to 1.50 against the dollar and 1.20 against the euro. Chart 15 shows that GBP/USD has closely tracked the rise and fall of global equities. Notably, the pound is 15% undervalued against the euro based on real 2-year interest rate differentials (Chart 16). Chart 15GBP/USD Has Closely Tracked Global Equities Chart 16The Pound Is Undervalued Against The Euro Based On Real Short-Term Interest Rate Differentials The Japanese yen is a highly defensive currency. Hence, stronger global growth will pose a headwind to the yen. Nevertheless, the yen is quite cheap, trading at a 20% discount to its Purchasing Power Parity exchange rate (Chart 17). Moreover, real yields are higher in Japan than they are in the other major economies, reflecting ongoing deflationary pressures (Chart 18). On balance, we expect the yen to move sideways against the US dollar over the next 12 months. Chart 17The Yen Is Quite Cheap Chart 18Real Yields Are Higher In Japan Than In The Other Major Economies Equity Implications Of A Weaker Dollar Cyclical stocks tend to outperform defensives when the dollar is weakening. To the extent that cyclicals are overrepresented in stock market indices outside the US, a weaker dollar favors non-US equities (Chart 19). Chart 19Cyclical Stocks Tend To Outperform Defensives When The Dollar Is Weakening Chart 20Value Stocks Generally Do Best In A Weak Dollar Environment Value stocks also tend to do best in a weak dollar environment (Chart 20). As such, we recommend that investors overweight cyclicals, non-US, and value stocks over the next 12 months. Peter Berezin Chief Global Strategist pberezin@bcaresearch.com Global Investment Strategy View Matrix Special Trade Recommendations Current MacroQuant Model Scores
Weekly Performance Update For the week ending Thu Apr 22, 2021 The Market Monitor displays the trailing 1-quarter performance of strategies based around the BCA Score. For each region, we construct an equal-weighted, monthly rebalanced portfolio consisting of the top 3 stocks per sector and compare it with the regional benchmark. For each portfolio, we show the weekly performance of individual holdings in the Top Contributors/Detractors table. In addition, the Top Prospects table shows the holdings that currently have the highest BCA Score within the portfolio. For more details, click the region headers below to be redirected to the full historical backtest for the strategy. BCA US Portfolio Total Weekly Return BCA US Portfolio S&P500 TRI -0.56% -0.84% Top Contributors QFIN:US VIPS:US UTHR:US SEM:US VICI:US Weekly Return 36 bps 20 bps 13 bps 12 bps 12 bps Top Detractors MO:US EXPI:US SCCO:US TRTN:US DCP:US Weekly Return -29 bps -27 bps -25 bps -24 bps -16 bps Top Prospects TX:US ESGR:US UHAL:US MO:US BRK.A:US BCA Score 99.89% 97.61% 96.90% 96.18% 94.68% BCA Canada Portfolio Total Weekly Return BCA Canada Portfolio S&P/TSX TRI 0.03% -1.44% Top Contributors LIF:CA CFP:CA RUS:CA RCI.B:CA NWC:CA Weekly Return 20 bps 13 bps 8 bps 8 bps 7 bps Top Detractors PXT:CA ENGH:CA DIR.UN:CA CSU:CA WEED:CA Weekly Return -10 bps -10 bps -9 bps -9 bps -8 bps Top Prospects LNF:CA IFP:CA CFP:CA NWC:CA LNR:CA BCA Score 99.43% 98.42% 98.23% 92.71% 90.60% BCA UK Portfolio Total Weekly Return BCA UK Portfolio FTSE 100 TRI 1.01% -0.59% Top Contributors SVST:GB NLMK:GB FXPO:GB NFC:GB EMIS:GB Weekly Return 48 bps 30 bps 30 bps 26 bps 25 bps Top Detractors AO.:GB OXIG:GB PRTC:GB CNE:GB PZC:GB Weekly Return -28 bps -25 bps -13 bps -9 bps -8 bps Top Prospects SVST:GB NLMK:GB GLTR:GB BPCR:GB GYS:GB BCA Score 99.75% 98.71% 97.45% 96.76% 96.70% BCA Eurozone Portfolio Total Weekly Return BCA EMU Portfolio MSCI EMU TRI 0.64% 0.66% Top Contributors VIRP:FR CNV:FR VGP:BE MONT:BE GCO:ES Weekly Return 68 bps 16 bps 13 bps 11 bps 9 bps Top Detractors ROTH:FR AOF:DE SOL:IT TEN:IT PHH2:DE Weekly Return -23 bps -15 bps -10 bps -9 bps -8 bps Top Prospects PHH2:DE SOL:IT CNV:FR SOLV:BE ROTH:FR BCA Score 99.84% 99.37% 98.98% 98.92% 97.81% BCA Japan Portfolio Total Weekly Return BCA Japan Portfolio TOPIX TRI -1.86% -1.87% Top Contributors 5451:JP 4980:JP 7994:JP 8966:JP 6960:JP Weekly Return 7 bps 4 bps 3 bps 2 bps 1 bps Top Detractors 6269:JP 7279:JP 4008:JP 8425:JP 8173:JP Weekly Return -18 bps -18 bps -15 bps -15 bps -11 bps Top Prospects 9436:JP 1766:JP 4008:JP 8595:JP 6960:JP BCA Score 99.44% 99.23% 99.06% 97.37% 97.09% BCA Hong Kong Portfolio Total Weekly Return BCA Hong Kong Portfolio Hang Seng TRI 1.58% -0.05% Top Contributors 990:HK 856:HK 2232:HK 867:HK 215:HK Weekly Return 42 bps 32 bps 22 bps 19 bps 13 bps Top Detractors 148:HK 1888:HK 41:HK 2798:HK 373:HK Weekly Return -38 bps -15 bps -7 bps -6 bps -5 bps Top Prospects 990:HK 86:HK 2232:HK 811:HK 3306:HK BCA Score 99.85% 98.90% 98.45% 97.69% 96.00% BCA Australia Portfolio Total Weekly Return BCA Australia Portfolio S&P/ASX All Ord. TRI 0.56% -0.07% Top Contributors ADH:AU GRR:AU HT1:AU REH:AU BLX:AU Weekly Return 55 bps 45 bps 18 bps 12 bps 11 bps Top Detractors STX:AU PDN:AU AGL:AU RIC:AU AQZ:AU Weekly Return -41 bps -20 bps -16 bps -12 bps -11 bps Top Prospects BSE:AU GRR:AU PSQ:AU PIC:AU ZIM:AU BCA Score 99.88% 98.80% 97.39% 97.21% 97.00%
According to BCA Research’s Emerging Markets Strategy service, EM banks will underperform their DM peers in the next six months. Banks in emerging markets outside China, Korea, and Taiwan (Province of China) will experience higher NPLs than their DM peers.…
The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and NASDAQ all sank on Thursday on news that President Biden will propose raising the capital gains tax rate for wealthy Americans to 39.6% from the current base rate of 20% in order to fund social spending in his…
Embolsándose un 42% en ganancias combinadas
Embolsándose un 42% en ganancias combinadas
El martes se activó nuestro stop rodante del 5% en la operación de pares con posición larga “Back-To-Work” / corta “COIVD-19 Winners”. Estamos acatando el stop y cerrando la operación por otra rentabilidad del 20.5% además del anterior 21.5%, lo que eleva la rentabilidad total al 42% en menos de 9 meses.
Aunque no estamos cambiando nuestro tema superpuesto de reapertura económica de 2021 que respaldó esta operación, ya no estamos conformes con la relación riesgo/recompensa y, desde la perspectiva de la gestión del riesgo de cartera, hemos decidido obedecer nuestro stop y apartarnos.
Cabe señalar que, si la ratio de precios de las acciones sufre una corrección significativa catalizada por el rendimiento latente del Tesoro estadounidense a 10 años, volveremos a abrir esta operación en busca de una nueva subida.
Bottom Line: Cerrar la operación de pares larga “Back-To-Work” / corta “COIVD-19 Winners” con una ganancia del 20.5% desde la segunda apertura, pero estén atentos.
Mientras la Fed sigue comprometida con la política de tipos de interés cero (ZIRP) durante el resto del año, los miembros del FOMC ya comenzaron a hablar sobre la reducción de compras (tapering). El siguiente paso lógico es que el tapering se haga realidad a medida que el año llega a su fin o a principios de 2022. Mirando al norte del paralelo 49, el BoC optó ayer por reducir ligeramente las compras de bonos y puede ofrecer una pista de lo que también podría arraigarse en EE. UU. en un futuro no muy lejano.
Es cierto, el tapering es algo positivo ya que la confianza del Banco Central (BC) es alta en que la economía está sobre una base sólida y ya no necesita apoyo adicional del BC; sin embargo, si la historia sirve de guía, los inversores en acciones tendrán que digerir la noticia del tapering una vez que se haga realidad. El gráfico muestra la liquidez de los bancos centrales del G4 como un cambio a 26 semanas en el lado de los activos del balance, y dado que parte de este exceso de liquidez se filtra al mercado de acciones de EE. UU., su retirada probablemente resultará tumultuosa.
Conclusión: Se recomienda cautela a corto plazo respecto a las perspectivas del mercado de renta variable en general, que sigue plenamente valorado. Consulte el siguiente Insight del sector de renta variable de EE. UU.
¿Qué pensar de la disminución de la liquidez de los bancos centrales a nivel mundial?
¿Qué pensar de la disminución de la liquidez de los bancos centrales a nivel mundial?
En lugar del informe de estrategia de la próxima semana, presentaré el primer webcast de Counterpoint titulado ‘Mega-Temas, Choques Venideros y Mejores Operaciones’. Espero que pueda unirse. Aspectos destacados La teoría económica estándar asume que el dinero es perfectamente fungible. Pero en la práctica, el dinero no es fungible, porque las personas asignan diferentes emociones a sus cuentas mentales de ingresos y ahorros. Esto se conoce como 'sesgo de contabilidad mental'. El sesgo de contabilidad mental significa que es más probable que utilicemos la enorme acumulación de ahorros acumulada durante la pandemia para pagar deudas que para gastar. El sesgo de contabilidad mental también significa que estamos pagando en exceso por las acciones de alto rendimiento. Los inversores a largo plazo deberían evitar los bancos y deberían evitar el 'value'. Calculada correctamente, la prima de riesgo de la renta variable ahora es casi inexistente. Los rendimientos de los bonos a largo plazo de EE. UU. tienen mucho más margen para bajar que para subir. Lista breve de operaciones fractales: acciones frente a bonos, PKR y acciones de Nueva Zelanda. Artículo principal Gráfico de la semana El consumo se explica por los salarios...
El consumo se explica por los salarios...
El consumo se explica por los salarios...
Gráfico de la semana ...no por los cheques de estímulo
...No mediante cheques de estímulo
...No mediante cheques de estímulo
Muchos economistas predicen que, una vez que las economías vuelvan a abrir completamente, la enorme acumulación de ahorros de los hogares acumulada durante la pandemia desatará un tsunami de gasto de los hogares. Pero los economistas no son las personas adecuadas para hacer esta predicción. La respuesta a si los hogares gastarán o no su acumulación de ahorros no pertenece al ámbito de la Economía. Pertenece al ámbito de la Psicología. Si gastamos dinero depende de la 'cuenta mental' que ocupe En Una anomalía importante en el mercado de bonos señalamos que la propensión a gastar a partir del ingreso es alta, pero la propensión a gastar a partir de la riqueza es baja. Esto significa que si el ingreso no gastado se gasta depende de si los hogares lo clasifican como ingreso adicional o como riqueza adicional. Esto planteó una pregunta de seguimiento. ¿Cómo puede la decisión de gastar dinero depender de si alguien lo clasifica como ingreso o como riqueza? La respuesta proviene de la Psicología y de un fenómeno conocido como 'sesgo de contabilidad mental'. El psicólogo y premio Nobel Daniel Kahneman señala que categorizamos nuestro dinero en diferentes cuentas, que a veces son físicas y otras veces solo mentales, y que existe una jerarquía clara en nuestra disposición a recurrir a estas cuentas para gastar. Existe una jerarquía clara en nuestra disposición a gastar a partir de nuestras 'cuentas mentales'. En la cima de la jerarquía está nuestro salario mensual, seguido por el dinero en nuestra cuenta corriente. Estas cuentas de 'ingreso' estamos dispuestos a gastarlas. Más abajo en la jerarquía están nuestra cuenta de ahorros y nuestra cartera de inversión. Estas cuentas de 'ahorro' o de 'riqueza' no estamos dispuestos a gastarlas. La teoría económica estándar asume que el dinero es perfectamente fungible, de modo que una libra en una cuenta corriente no es diferente a una libra en una cuenta de ahorros. Pero en la práctica, el dinero no es fungible, porque las personas asignan diferentes emociones a sus cuentas mentales de ingresos y ahorros. Cuando transferimos dinero de nuestros salarios o de nuestra cuenta corriente a nuestra cuenta de ahorros, nuestra disposición a gastarlo se derrumba. Esto explica por qué el consumo sigue de cerca a los salarios que dominan nuestra cuenta mental de ingresos, pero no tiene una conexión significativa con los cheques de estímulo que en gran medida terminan en nuestra cuenta mental de ahorro (Gráfico de la semana y Gráfico I-2). Gráfico I-2 Los cheques de estímulo no tuvieron un impacto significativo en las tendencias de consumo
Los cheques de estímulo no tuvieron un impacto significativo en las tendencias de consumo.
Los cheques de estímulo no tuvieron un impacto significativo en las tendencias de consumo.
Sin embargo, aunque no estemos dispuestos a gastar nuestra cuenta mental de ahorros, sí estamos dispuestos a reducir la deuda con ella. De hecho, al darse cuenta de esta conexión emocional entre nuestros ahorros y nuestra deuda, muchos prestamistas ofrecen hipotecas que 'compensan' una cuenta de ahorros contra la deuda hipotecaria. Uniendo todo esto, es improbable que la acumulación de ahorros de los hogares acumulada durante la pandemia impulse las tendencias de consumo. Es más probable que se utilice para reducir la deuda de los hogares. En tal caso, parte del reciente aumento de la deuda pública terminará simplemente pagando deuda privada, como ocurrió en Japón durante la década de 1990 (Gráfico I-3). Gráfico I-3 En Japón, la deuda pública terminó pagando la deuda privada
En Japón, la deuda pública acabó pagando la deuda privada
En Japón, la deuda pública acabó pagando la deuda privada
Esto presagia problemas para el crecimiento de los activos bancarios. El 'value' no ofrece valor El sesgo de contabilidad mental también explica el fenómeno dominante en los mercados financieros de los últimos años: la llamada 'búsqueda de rendimiento'. A primera vista, la búsqueda de rendimiento tiene sentido, pero al pensarlo más profundamente la distinción entre rendimiento y apreciación del capital es irracional. Al igual que con el ingreso y la riqueza, el dinero que proviene del rendimiento de una inversión y el dinero que proviene de su apreciación de capital es perfectamente fungible (suponiendo un tratamiento fiscal igual). Sin embargo, en la práctica, muchos inversores ponen el rendimiento y la apreciación de capital en cuentas mentales separadas, clasificando el rendimiento de una inversión como dinero para gastar y su capital como dinero para ahorrar. Por lo tanto, esos inversores —por ejemplo, los jubilados— que quieren que sus activos generen dinero para su cuenta mental de gasto tienen un sesgo irracional hacia inversiones que generan rendimiento. Mientras que aquellos inversores que quieren que sus activos aumenten su cuenta mental de ahorro tienen un sesgo hacia inversiones que generan crecimiento de capital. Para reiterar, dado que el dinero es perfectamente fungible, estas cuentas mentales son irracionales. En circunstancias normales, estos sesgos irracionales no son un problema porque hay suficientes inversiones disponibles tanto para la cuenta mental de gasto como para la de ahorro. Pero en los últimos años, los activos que normalmente generarían el ingreso seguro para la cuenta de gasto —efectivo y bonos del gobierno— ya no lo están haciendo. Por lo tanto, en la estampida por el rendimiento, los inversores fijados en el ingreso han sufrido una visión de túnel peligrosa. Al fijarse en el rendimiento de una acción en lugar de en su rendimiento total prospectivo, los inversores en busca de rendimiento están pagando en exceso por acciones de alto rendimiento y, por lo tanto, sacrificando su riqueza a largo plazo. Al fijarse en el rendimiento de una acción en lugar de en su rendimiento total prospectivo, los inversores están pagando en exceso por acciones de alto rendimiento. Un caso concreto. El rendimiento por beneficios futuros del 8 por ciento en el sector financiero global parece ofrecer considerablemente más valor que el 5 por ciento en salud y el 3,5 por ciento en tecnología. Pero lo que realmente importa es cómo ese rendimiento por beneficios futuros se traduce en la rentabilidad total prospectiva. En esta base, el aparente valor en los financieros resulta ser una ilusión. Utilizando la relación posterior a la crisis financiera entre el rendimiento por beneficios futuros y la rentabilidad prospectiva, los financieros de alto rendimiento estaban, hasta hace muy poco, valorados para ofrecer una rentabilidad inferior a la de la tecnología de bajo rendimiento. Y los financieros siguen valorados para ofrecer una rentabilidad inferior a la de la salud de menor rendimiento. Para ofrecer la misma rentabilidad a largo plazo que la salud, la valoración de los financieros tendría que disminuir en un 20 por ciento (Gráfico I-4 - Gráfico I-6). Gráfico I-4 Rendimiento por beneficios del 8 % en financieros = una rentabilidad prospectiva del 2 %
El rendimiento por ganancias del 8% de las financieras = un rendimiento prospectivo del 2%
El rendimiento por ganancias del 8% de las financieras = un rendimiento prospectivo del 2%
Gráfico I-5 Rendimiento por beneficios del 5 % en salud = una rentabilidad prospectiva del 8 %
La rentabilidad por beneficios del 5 % del sector sanitario = Una rentabilidad prospectiva del 8 %
La rentabilidad por beneficios del 5 % del sector sanitario = Una rentabilidad prospectiva del 8 %
Gráfico I-6 La tecnología está cara
La tecnología es cara
La tecnología es cara
Por lo tanto, el sesgo de contabilidad mental es un doble golpe para los bancos. Presagia problemas para el crecimiento de los activos bancarios y hace que los inversores paguen en exceso por acciones de alto rendimiento. Esto crea la paradoja definitiva de la inversión. La característica definitoria del 'value' es que ¡no ofrece valor! Los inversores a largo plazo deberían evitar los bancos y deberían evitar el value. Los rendimientos de los bonos de EE. UU. tienen más margen para bajar que para subir El análisis anterior también tiene importantes implicaciones sobre el enfoque correcto para valorar las acciones y, específicamente, la prima de riesgo de la renta variable, es decir, la rentabilidad excesiva prospectiva de las acciones frente a los bonos de alta calidad. El enfoque común e incorrecto es tomar el rendimiento por beneficios futuros de las acciones y restar el rendimiento del bono a 10 años. Utilizando un rendimiento por beneficios futuros de EE. UU. del 4,5 por ciento, esto sugeriría que la prima de riesgo de la renta variable es un cómodo 3 por ciento frente al rendimiento nominal del bono del 1,5 por ciento. O un muy cómodo 5,5 por ciento frente al rendimiento real del bono de -1 por ciento. El error evidente de este enfoque es que está restando peras de manzanas. El rendimiento del bono a 10 años es la rentabilidad que recibirás del bono durante los próximos 10 años. Pero como acaba de ver, el rendimiento por beneficios futuros no es la rentabilidad que recibirás de las acciones durante los próximos 10 años. Para restar peras de peras debemos primero traducir el rendimiento por beneficios futuros en una rentabilidad total prospectiva a 10 años. La traducción actual resulta ser una rentabilidad nominal del 2 por ciento (Gráfico I-7 - Gráfico I-8) o una rentabilidad real del 0 por ciento (Gráfico I-9 - Gráfico I-10). Comparando estas con los rendimientos nominales o reales de los bonos, encontramos que la prima de riesgo de la renta variable es casi inexistente. Gráfico I-7 Convierta el rendimiento por beneficios en una rentabilidad nominal prospectiva...
Convertir el rendimiento por beneficios en un rendimiento nominal prospectivo...
Convertir el rendimiento por beneficios en un rendimiento nominal prospectivo...
Gráfico I-8 …para descubrir que la prima de riesgo de la renta variable es casi inexistente
…Para descubrir que la prima de riesgo de la renta variable es casi inexistente
…Para descubrir que la prima de riesgo de la renta variable es casi inexistente
Gráfico I-9 Convierta el rendimiento por beneficios en una rentabilidad real prospectiva...
Convierte el rendimiento de las ganancias en un rendimiento real prospectivo...
Convierte el rendimiento de las ganancias en un rendimiento real prospectivo...
Gráfico I-10 ...para descubrir que la prima de riesgo de la renta variable es casi inexistente
...Descubrir que la prima de riesgo accionario es casi inexistente
...Descubrir que la prima de riesgo accionario es casi inexistente
La prima de riesgo de la renta variable casi inexistente significa que las acciones están altamente valoradas y que esta valoración elevada depende de que los rendimientos de los bonos no aumenten significativamente. Además, no solo las acciones están altamente valoradas. Como señalamos en El camino hacia la inflación termina en la deflación, la valoración de 300 billones de dólares de bienes raíces globales también depende en gran medida de que los rendimientos de los bonos no aumenten significativamente. Las acciones están altamente valoradas y esa valoración elevada depende de que los rendimientos de los bonos no aumenten significativamente. Concluimos que, desde los niveles actuales, los rendimientos de los bonos a largo plazo de EE. UU. tienen mucho más margen para bajar que para subir. Candidatos para una reversión de la contratendencia El fuerte repunte de las acciones frente a los bonos desde el mínimo de la pandemia ha alcanzado un punto de fragilidad fractal similar al visto al final de la corrida alcista de 2013 y al final de la caída de principios de 2020 (Gráfico I-11). Como tal, el repunte actual merece una pausa. Gráfico I-11 El repunte de las acciones frente a los bonos merece una pausa
El repunte de las acciones frente a los bonos necesita un respiro.
El repunte de las acciones frente a los bonos necesita un respiro.
En la región de Asia Pacífico, observamos que el reciente fuerte desempeño de la rupia pakistaní es susceptible a una venta en contra-tendencia (Gráfico I-12). Gráfico I-12 Subponderar el PKR
Infraponderar el PKR
Infraponderar el PKR
Por último, el mercado de valores de Nueva Zelanda, ultra defensivo, ha tenido un rendimiento muy inferior durante el último año. Pero la fragilidad en sus estructuras fractales de 130 y 65 días sugiere que está listo para una sobreperformance contraria (Gráfico I-13). Gráfico I-13 Sobreponderar Nueva Zelanda
Sobrepeso en Nueva Zelanda
Sobrepeso en Nueva Zelanda
En consecuencia, la recomendación de esta semana es sobreponderar Nueva Zelanda frente al mundo, estableciendo el objetivo de beneficio y el stop-loss simétrico en 4 por ciento. Dhaval Joshi Chief Strategist dhaval@bcaresearch.com Sistema de Trading Fractal Operaciones fractales Recomendaciones a 6 meses Recomendaciones estructurales Operaciones fractales cerradas Operaciones cerradas Rendimiento de activos Rendimiento del mercado de renta variable Indicadores a observar - Rendimientos de los bonos Gráfico II-1 Indicadores a observar - Rendimientos de los bonos - ##br##Área del euro
Indicadores a vigilar - Rendimientos de los bonos - Zona del euro
Indicadores a vigilar - Rendimientos de los bonos - Zona del euro
Gráfico II-2 Indicadores a observar - Rendimientos de los bonos - ##br##Europa fuera del Área del euro
Indicadores a vigilar - Rendimientos de los bonos - Europa (fuera de la zona euro)
Indicadores a vigilar - Rendimientos de los bonos - Europa (fuera de la zona euro)
Gráfico II-3 Indicadores a observar - Rendimientos de los bonos - ##br##Asia
Indicadores a seguir - Rendimientos de bonos - Asia
Indicadores a seguir - Rendimientos de bonos - Asia
Gráfico II-4 Indicadores a observar - Rendimientos de los bonos - ##br##Otros desarrollados
Indicadores a vigilar - Rendimientos de bonos - Otros mercados desarrollados
Indicadores a vigilar - Rendimientos de bonos - Otros mercados desarrollados
Indicadores a observar - Expectativas de tipos de interés Gráfico II-5 Indicadores a observar - Expectativas de tipos de interés
Indicadores a Vigilar - Expectativas de Tasas de Interés
Indicadores a Vigilar - Expectativas de Tasas de Interés
Gráfico II-6 Indicadores a observar - Expectativas de tipos de interés
Indicadores a vigilar - Expectativas de tasas de interés
Indicadores a vigilar - Expectativas de tasas de interés
Gráfico II-7 Indicadores a observar - Expectativas de tipos de interés
Indicadores a vigilar - Expectativas de tasas de interés
Indicadores a vigilar - Expectativas de tasas de interés
Gráfico II-8 Indicadores a observar - Expectativas de tipos de interés
Indicadores a seguir - Expectativas de las tasas de interés
Indicadores a seguir - Expectativas de las tasas de interés

