US Stimulus and Weak Foreign Markets
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Trading Features / Strategies from Simon Denham of Capital Spreads.
So the senate has passed the stimulus bill and we must now await with bated breath for its effects to take place. Of course, with the economy in the US bleeding jobs at an ever increasing rate any form of fire wall must be considered. However spending over $800 billion on top of the money already allocated to bank liquidity easing (was it $700 billion?) might be a step too far even for the USA.
The fear must now be that, even if the plan works and growth does return to the economy, future growth will be severely impacted and the ability to rise out of any downturns to come will be very restricted. The West is in danger of handing a lead weight to the prosperity of tomorrow.
Pictures of the Titan Atlas forever condemned to hold the celestial heavens come to mind. The piling of debt upon debt cannot surely be the correct solution. The Fed will now have to steer a very dangerous course indeed between, on the one hand, a Japanese style 20 years deflationary stagnation and on the other the release of not just the inflation genie but also the hyper-inflationary djinn.
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To combine huge new spending with massive new tax cuts when investment liquidity is not exactly just lying around risks starving the corporate sector of the ability to tap into the capital markets. One of the dangers with such massive issuance is that it will cause a heavily positive yield curve in the US T-Bond markets and this will tempt the US Treasury into issuing shorter than usual term Bonds which could well mean a never ending tidal wave of new and expiring refinancing issuance.
President Obama is starting to get a bit of the doomster feel about him. Every time he speaks on the economy/stimulus package the markets react with a heavy fall. The dealing team are almost tempted to start selling the moment they see him appear on Bloomberg TV.
To add to the woes China’s latest numbers this morning make grim reading indeed. Exports continue to slide sharply (shipments were down 17% in January), imports are dropping an almost unbelievable 21.3% and yet money supply is surging by 17% as the various state enterprises resort to the fiscal printing press to keep growth in place. Stories of a possible 40m unemployed concentrated in failing industrial centres will not help stability in a country that has become used to stellar growth.
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'US Stimulus and Weak Foreign Markets' edited by DB, updated 11-Feb-09
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