Archive - Jul 2014
July 30th
Q2 GDP Surges 4%, Beats Estimates Driven By Inventories, Fixed Investment Spike; Historical Data Revised
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2014 09:30 -0500Moments ago the Commerce department reported Q2 GDP which blew estimates out of the water, printing at 4.0%, above the declining 3.0% consensus, as a result of a surge in Inventories and Fixed Investment, both of which added over 2.5% of the total print, while exports added another 1.23% to the GDP number. The full breakdown by component is shown below.
Stocks Slide, Erase All GDP Gains
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2014 09:04 -0500Well that didn't last long...
Argentine Bonds Soar To Record Highs As Hope Rules (For Now)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2014 08:36 -0500While last night saw'The Holdouts' and 'The Argentina Delegation' come face-to-face for the first time in a decade for negotiations, when they went to bed late last night, there was no resolution. No news yet this morning of when the meeting will reconvene but it appears market participants are hopeful... The Argentina 2033 bonds are exploding higher. ARG 2033s are up over 10 points to a record-high price of 97.50. Let's hope they are not disappointed at the hopes for a bank bailout. Of course, we saw this kind of exuberant jump right after the initial pro-holdouts ruling drop...
Greenspan Fears "False Dawn" In US Economy, Warns Of "Equity Correction At Some Point"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2014 08:24 -0500Equity bulls should be exuberant. The last time Alan Greenspan warned of exuberance and potential for a correction, stocks soared for a few more years. While Yellen's stock-picking skills have been questioned in recent days, Greenspan has once again weighed in:
*GREENSPAN SAYS 'KEY QUESTION' IS WHETHER U.S. FACES FALSE DAWN
*GREENSPAN PREDICTS AT SOME POINT EQUITIES TO HAVE CORRECTION
Although Greenspan declined to second-guess the Fed, he sees a problem moving toward "normalized" policy for his descendants.
GDP Sparks Gold Dump, Stock Pump
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2014 08:14 -0500Bond yields jumped over 4bps on the better than expected GDP print. Stocks popped along with the USD index. Gold was flip-flopped all over the place - an initial dump was followed by a rip back over $1300 only to be sold back down to $1295 now... Equity exuberance is fading back a little now as machines 'read' the anti-goldilocks ADP print and inventory-stuffed Fed-hawk-supporting GDP print as indicative of a punch bowl that just got dragged away a little more...
ADP Tumbles From June Exuberance, Misses 3rd Of Last 4 Months
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2014 07:19 -0500Following last month's exuberant explosion of job gains according to ADP (the most since Nov 2012), the ADP employment report shows jobs missing expectations at 218k (vs 230k) and tumbling from the 281k print in June. Curious, there were still two days in the month when ADP estimated the full month print, which is curious considering ADP staunchly refuses to provide its unadjusted numbers. This is the 3rd ADP miss in 4 months. Zandi helpful addition, "there's job growth everywhere" except as we noted - not as much as expected. Today's print appears the anti-goldilocks, not low enough to prompt the Fed to get more dovish and not high enough to suggest growth is anything like markets expect.
Obama Infuriates Republicans With Latest Plan To Deport Fewer Illegal Immigrants
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2014 07:06 -0500After Eric Cantor's shocking defeat at the hands of an unknown Tea Party member several months ago, US immigration reform was said to be all but dead, a condition which has been substantially exacerbated by recent tensions over the influx of Central American children crossing the southern US border. However, contrary to initial appeals that Obama is limited in what he can do without a cooperative Congress, the president now appears set to take his latest unilateral decision, one that is set to set republicans fuming and the ranks of future potential democrat voters soaring, when as the WSJ reports, Obama may take "broad action to scale back deportations that could include work permits for millions of people, according to lawmakers and immigration advocates who have consulted with the White House."
Frontrunning: July 30
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2014 06:45 -0500- American Express
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- Fed Decision-Day Guide: QE Tapering to Inflation Debate (BBG)
- Obama says strains over Ukraine not leading to new Cold War with Russia (Reuters)
- Siemens to BP Prepare for Downward Russia Business Spiral (BBG)
- Paying Ransoms, Europe Bankrolls Qaeda Terror (NYT)
- Argentina Banks Preparing Bid to Help Argentina Avoid Default (WSJ)
- Obama Weighs Fewer Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Living in U.S. (WSJ)
- India Warships Off Japan Show Rising Lure as China Counterweight (BBG)
- Hong Kong Popping Housing Bubbles London Can’t Handle (BBG)
- Carnage at U.N. school as Israel pounds Gaza refugee camp (Reuters)
Futures Push Higher Ahead Of Data Deluge, Yellen Capital Statement
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This week's US data onslaught begins today, with the ADP private payroll report first on deck (Exp. 230K, down from 281K), followed by the number of the day, Q2 GDP, which after Q1's abysmal -2.9%, is expected to increase 3%. Anything less and in the first half the US economy will have contracted, something the purists could claim is equivalent to a recession. The whisper numbers are to the downside since consumption and trade never caught up and the only variable is inventory as well as Obamacare, whose impact was $40 billion "contribution" in Q1 was entirely eliminated and instead led to a deduction, something we expect will be reversed into Q2. Following the backward looking GDP (which will be ignored by the sellside penguins if it is bad and praised if good) at 2:00 pm Yellen Capital LLC comes out with a correction on her call to short social networking stocks, as well as admit once again that the "data-driven" Fed really has no idea what it is doing and how it will tighten, but that tightening is imminent and another $10 billion taper to QE will take place ahead of a full phase out in October. Joking aside, the Fed is expected not to do much if anything, which may be just the right time for Yellen to inject an aggressively hawkish note considering her inflation "noise" refuses to go away.
RANsquawk Preview: FOMC Decisions - 30th July 2014
Submitted by RANSquawk Video on 07/30/2014 05:11 -0500July 29th
"Shocked" White House Slams "Fabrication" After Israel TV Leaks Damning Transcript Of Obama-Netanyahu Phone Call
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2014 22:53 -0500While the US continues to escalate the conflict with Russia in a tit-for-tat recreation of the Cold War, things for US foreign policy just keep going from bad to worse, with the latest insult coming from none other than close US ally, Israel.
Our Totalitarian Future - Part 1
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2014 21:58 -0500Despots, dictators, and power hungry presidents arise in an atmosphere of fear, scarce resources, hopelessness, and misery. As the power of the central government grows; the freedoms, liberties and rights of the people are diminished and ultimately relinquished.
Former Aide To Bill Clinton Speaks – "My Party Has Lost Its Soul"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2014 21:55 -0500"One reason we know voters will embrace populism is that they already have. It’s what they thought they were getting with Obama...He turned out to be something else altogether. Not long ago optimism was in vogue. Obama’s slogan then was “Yes we can.” Today it could be “It turns out we can’t.”"
Chinese 'Fake' Trade Data Remains "A Bit Of A Mystery" Despite Clean-Up Efforts
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2014 21:27 -0500Over a year ago we first brought China's 'fake' trade data and abundant discrepancies to the public's attention and in December China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) began clamping down on trade-financing on fabricated deals after the first crackdown failed to eliminate the deception. Now over a year later, as Bloomberg reports, China's data still does not add up. "It's still a bit of a mystery," said StanChart's Stephen Green, the data "suggest that some of that is still going on."




