Commodities & Energy Sector

The Fed will upset the rebalancing of oil markets if it misreads the current sell-off as weakness in oil demand.

The U.S. corporate re-leveraging cycle is far more advanced than is widely believed. Corporate health looks only mildly better excluding the troubled energy and materials sectors. Mushrooming leverage ratios are not restricted to junk issuers either.

Equity selloff alone will not catch the Fed's eye unless there is an outright crash.