#Markets #Rates #FX #Equities
🔁 Lagarde repeated the mantra: data-dependent, meeting-by-meeting
🏦 For credit "good place" = steep front-end yield curves
📈 Gap between French 7-10yr IG Corp bond yields and French household deposit rates is 1.6% – 90th percentile!
🔁 Lagarde repeated the mantra: data-dependent, meeting-by-meeting
🏦 For credit "good place" = steep front-end yield curves
📈 Gap between French 7-10yr IG Corp bond yields and French household deposit rates is 1.6% – 90th percentile!
AI disruption = much more of a EUR EQUITY story than EUR CREDIT story
• ~20 Stoxx 600 companies saw >10% 1-day drops YTD
• But "plunging bonds" metric shows NO pickup in EUR HY
Why? Software is tiny in EUR credit markets
#SaaS #EURCredit
AI disruption = much more of a EUR EQUITY story than EUR CREDIT story
• ~20 Stoxx 600 companies saw >10% 1-day drops YTD
• But "plunging bonds" metric shows NO pickup in EUR HY
Why? Software is tiny in EUR credit markets
#SaaS #EURCredit
Tech-software stocks (IGV) now at 6yr LOW vs S&P 500
• Down 24% YTD
• Current drawdown >30%
• US software loans average price = $91
Yet this seems INCONSISTENT with AI disruption narrative. If AI disrupts everything, why are hyperscalers falling too?
Tech-software stocks (IGV) now at 6yr LOW vs S&P 500
• Down 24% YTD
• Current drawdown >30%
• US software loans average price = $91
Yet this seems INCONSISTENT with AI disruption narrative. If AI disrupts everything, why are hyperscalers falling too?
Meanwhile, €1.3bn flowed INTO European credit this week alone 🚀
↗️ EUR IG: +€423mm (41 straight weeks of inflows)
↗️EUR HY: +€139mm (11 weeks running)
↗️Strategic: +€776mm
This is the most powerful - and most ignored - support for credit markets.
Meanwhile, €1.3bn flowed INTO European credit this week alone 🚀
↗️ EUR IG: +€423mm (41 straight weeks of inflows)
↗️EUR HY: +€139mm (11 weeks running)
↗️Strategic: +€776mm
This is the most powerful - and most ignored - support for credit markets.
Oracle's monster issuance is crashing in secondary 📉
The 40-year tranche? +11bp wider to 206bp 💰
CDS rallied then reversed hard
When the largest tech deal of the year can't hold its pricing, it tells you something. 📉
Oracle's monster issuance is crashing in secondary 📉
The 40-year tranche? +11bp wider to 206bp 💰
CDS rallied then reversed hard
When the largest tech deal of the year can't hold its pricing, it tells you something. 📉
📈 Key stat: The China's trade surplus with EU is now LARGER than with US for the first time ever
💥 This is crushing margins for EUR industrials/chemicals.
Sector spreads are already +100bp wider
📈 Key stat: The China's trade surplus with EU is now LARGER than with US for the first time ever
💥 This is crushing margins for EUR industrials/chemicals.
Sector spreads are already +100bp wider
🔧 With French budget uncertainty "fading", 10yr OAT spreads tightened.
🚦 But French credit spreads are lagging this move!
📉 Only 3% of French credits now yield < duration-matched OATs
▶️ I would expect this is clearly short-term bullish tailwind for French banks
🔧 With French budget uncertainty "fading", 10yr OAT spreads tightened.
🚦 But French credit spreads are lagging this move!
📉 Only 3% of French credits now yield < duration-matched OATs
▶️ I would expect this is clearly short-term bullish tailwind for French banks
🔺 EM: Dollar weakness is good for EM assets. YTD EM equities are up +12.5%, well ahead of DM stocks for the year (+1.5%)
🔺 JUNK BONDS: For credit, it's better for HY credit than for IG, largely because it has a more share of EM-relevant credits in it.
🔺 EM: Dollar weakness is good for EM assets. YTD EM equities are up +12.5%, well ahead of DM stocks for the year (+1.5%)
🔺 JUNK BONDS: For credit, it's better for HY credit than for IG, largely because it has a more share of EM-relevant credits in it.
📈 Euro Effective Exchange Rate hit another ALL-TIME HIGH this week (chart)
📉 During 2025's USD weakness (Jan-Sep), export-focused EUR credits underperformed domestic credits by ~30bp ! (Chart)
HOW DO YOU PLAY IT?
👉 I prefer to be Long periphery vs short core
📈 Euro Effective Exchange Rate hit another ALL-TIME HIGH this week (chart)
📉 During 2025's USD weakness (Jan-Sep), export-focused EUR credits underperformed domestic credits by ~30bp ! (Chart)
HOW DO YOU PLAY IT?
👉 I prefer to be Long periphery vs short core
→ EUR IG curves are now INCREDIBLY steep at the front-end:
🔥 5-7yr vs 1-3yr spread pickup = 80% (99th percentile post-GFC!)
🌟 1-3yr NFs -7bp YTD (best Jan in 3yrs)
🛡️ Flight-to-quality + portfolio trades = front-end richening
Belly = value now !
→ EUR IG curves are now INCREDIBLY steep at the front-end:
🔥 5-7yr vs 1-3yr spread pickup = 80% (99th percentile post-GFC!)
🌟 1-3yr NFs -7bp YTD (best Jan in 3yrs)
🛡️ Flight-to-quality + portfolio trades = front-end richening
Belly = value now !
All precious metals up >20% YTD
🪙 S&P at 12yr LOW in gold terms
💰 Gold market cap now DOUBLE the Mag 7
⚡ Silver volatility > Bitcoin volatility
🔔 Gold doubled in exactly 1 year ($2,759 → $5,535)
Markets screaming Fed policy error risk 🚨
#Gold
All precious metals up >20% YTD
🪙 S&P at 12yr LOW in gold terms
💰 Gold market cap now DOUBLE the Mag 7
⚡ Silver volatility > Bitcoin volatility
🔔 Gold doubled in exactly 1 year ($2,759 → $5,535)
Markets screaming Fed policy error risk 🚨
#Gold
💶 TECHNICALS! as money keep pouring into markets (including Gold, Silver & Equities) while Euro credit flows keeps attracting capital!
📈 Latest data for week ending Jan 28 shows continued momentum in EUR IG and Strategic funds
💶 TECHNICALS! as money keep pouring into markets (including Gold, Silver & Equities) while Euro credit flows keeps attracting capital!
📈 Latest data for week ending Jan 28 shows continued momentum in EUR IG and Strategic funds
🔥 As I mentioned below, deal went VERY well with books 7.2x covered on the 12y bond (although much less than the crazy @Carac_epargne that we earlier saw this week at x20)
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🔥 As I mentioned below, deal went VERY well with books 7.2x covered on the 12y bond (although much less than the crazy @Carac_epargne that we earlier saw this week at x20)
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💰 IBM coming to raise $7bio in USD and EUR bonds, highlights the surge in tech debt as companies scramble to fund AI initiatives
🌍 A rush of debt sales from Big Tech is expected to flood credit markets globally
💰 IBM coming to raise $7bio in USD and EUR bonds, highlights the surge in tech debt as companies scramble to fund AI initiatives
🌍 A rush of debt sales from Big Tech is expected to flood credit markets globally
watching a textbook regime shift: capital is crowding into *monetary* assets while macro narrative still pretends this is just another mid‑cycle pause. 💰
watching a textbook regime shift: capital is crowding into *monetary* assets while macro narrative still pretends this is just another mid‑cycle pause. 💰
🔥 Demand was SO big for the little french insurance: it almost reached €6 billions euros (20x size offered !)
🔥 Demand was SO big for the little french insurance: it almost reached €6 billions euros (20x size offered !)
Global small cap stocks have outperformed large caps EVERY SINGLE DAY in 2026.
That's never happened before.
Meanwhile:
• US regional banks +9% YTD
• Value outperforming growth
• CCCs 50bp tighter YTD
Broadening risk appetite = continued HY compression. 1/
Global small cap stocks have outperformed large caps EVERY SINGLE DAY in 2026.
That's never happened before.
Meanwhile:
• US regional banks +9% YTD
• Value outperforming growth
• CCCs 50bp tighter YTD
Broadening risk appetite = continued HY compression. 1/
Inflation ~3% vs policy rate barely positive.
Compare that to:
🇪🇺 ECB: real rates positive
🇺🇸 Fed: real rates positive
🇬🇧 BoE: real rates positive
Japan is stuck. Can't tighten fast enough without breaking something.
#JPY
Inflation ~3% vs policy rate barely positive.
Compare that to:
🇪🇺 ECB: real rates positive
🇺🇸 Fed: real rates positive
🇬🇧 BoE: real rates positive
Japan is stuck. Can't tighten fast enough without breaking something.
#JPY
🔥 And It's happening again ! And CCCs leading the charge: 50bp tighter YTD while markets navigate tariff/rate volatility.
The message? Risk-on is real
#HighYield
🔥 And It's happening again ! And CCCs leading the charge: 50bp tighter YTD while markets navigate tariff/rate volatility.
The message? Risk-on is real
#HighYield
🥈 SILVER HAD ITS BEST DAY EVER (and best January start)
💴 JAPANESE BONDS LARGEST 1D JUMP (+27bp)
💲 DOLLAR IS AT ITS WORST SINCE 2022
but...
🧐 but ONE ASSET CLASS HASN'T MOVED !
Can you guess? Find out below! 🧵
#Silver #JPY #Volatility #Japan #DXY
🥈 SILVER HAD ITS BEST DAY EVER (and best January start)
💴 JAPANESE BONDS LARGEST 1D JUMP (+27bp)
💲 DOLLAR IS AT ITS WORST SINCE 2022
but...
🧐 but ONE ASSET CLASS HASN'T MOVED !
Can you guess? Find out below! 🧵
#Silver #JPY #Volatility #Japan #DXY
1) US govt shutdown risk spiking as Dems block DHS funding post-Minneapolis
2) Trump's impetuous 100% Canada tariff threat (won't happen, but sentiment erosion is real)
3) BlackRock TCP Capital (BDC) warned Q4 NAV -19% Q/Q -
1) US govt shutdown risk spiking as Dems block DHS funding post-Minneapolis
2) Trump's impetuous 100% Canada tariff threat (won't happen, but sentiment erosion is real)
3) BlackRock TCP Capital (BDC) warned Q4 NAV -19% Q/Q -
Autos and Chemicals are about to get a strategic boost. 🚗🧪
Defense procurement isn't just about tanks anymore. It's drones, vehicles, materials. 🛡️🚚🔧
Renault already moving. Who's next? 🚗
Autos and Chemicals are about to get a strategic boost. 🚗🧪
Defense procurement isn't just about tanks anymore. It's drones, vehicles, materials. 🛡️🚚🔧
Renault already moving. Who's next? 🚗
CCC bonds (junkiest junk) CRUSHING it: +1.15% YTD vs UST -0.2%!
6 CCC deals in Jan totaling $3.5bn = 15% of total HY supply (vs only 2 deals/$630m = 3% last Jan).
Barclays shows CCCs trading CHEAP vs single-Bs historically.
"If you don't invest in CCCs you get left behind"
CCC bonds (junkiest junk) CRUSHING it: +1.15% YTD vs UST -0.2%!
6 CCC deals in Jan totaling $3.5bn = 15% of total HY supply (vs only 2 deals/$630m = 3% last Jan).
Barclays shows CCCs trading CHEAP vs single-Bs historically.
"If you don't invest in CCCs you get left behind"
Headline risk that should've triggered 20-30bp widening?
Barely moved 3bp. 😅
Everyone was "buying the dip" BEFORE tensions calmed. 📈
Cash on sidelines is getting uncomfortable. That capitulation trade is coming. Question is when? 💰
Headline risk that should've triggered 20-30bp widening?
Barely moved 3bp. 😅
Everyone was "buying the dip" BEFORE tensions calmed. 📈
Cash on sidelines is getting uncomfortable. That capitulation trade is coming. Question is when? 💰
iTraxx Main moved just 3bp peak-to-trough this week—investors were "buying-the-dip" before tensions even calmed. EUR IG/HY ended the week 3bp/5bp *tighter*.
Welcome to the post-fatigue market 📉➡️📈 #CreditMarkets
iTraxx Main moved just 3bp peak-to-trough this week—investors were "buying-the-dip" before tensions even calmed. EUR IG/HY ended the week 3bp/5bp *tighter*.
Welcome to the post-fatigue market 📉➡️📈 #CreditMarkets