Morgan Stanley
Bizarro Time As Better Data Sends Stocks Lower
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/24/2013 06:56 -0400- Bloomberg News
- BLS
- Bond
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Carry Trade
- Central Banks
- Continuing Claims
- European Central Bank
- Gross Domestic Product
- Initial Jobless Claims
- Japan
- Jim Reid
- LTRO
- Markit
- Monetary Policy
- Morgan Stanley
- New Home Sales
- Nikkei
- POMO
- POMO
- Recession
- recovery
- Unemployment
- United Kingdom
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"The last 36 hours have perhaps been evidence as to what might happen if stimulus is withdrawn before the global recovery has been cemented and what might happen if Japan makes mistakes along the way to their attempted new dawn. With the Chinese data still ambiguous, Europe still in recession, Japan in the very early stages of a growth experiment and with the US recovery still historically very weak one has to say that liquidity has been the main market fuel in recent months. So central banks have to tread carefully and the Fed tapering talk and the BoJ's seemingly benign neglect policy towards JGBs has had the market fretting." - Deutsche Bank
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Stunned Stocks Slide On Soaring Volume; Worst Swing Day In 5 Weeks
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2013 16:14 -0400
Today saw the largest high to low drop intraday (down over 2.3%) in the S&P 500 for five weeks as it fell back to the 'Tepper Top'. Volume was the 3rd highest of the year. As expected, high-beta muppets were hurt most; Trannies were the worst performer in the major equity indices (down 1.6% on the day and 2.5% from the Bernanke highs early on); homebuilders dropped 3.7% from their earlier highs, and Morgan Stanley slumped 4% from its earlier highs. VIX (up most in 5 weeks at 14.0%) and credit markets (biggest widening in 4 weeks and HYG dropped by its most in 6 months from its intraday highs) saw major weakness (extending the bearish divergence with stocks). The USD rallied back to unchanged on the week and commodities slipped lower (gold and silver end the day slightly higher on the week). What's so special about today? The S&P 500 dividend yield just equilibrated with the 10Y yield for the first time since April 2012... where would you rather 'reach for yield'...
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Frontrunning: May 21
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/21/2013 07:48 -0400- Activist Shareholder
- Allied Capital
- Apple
- Bill Gross
- Bond
- Charlie Ergen
- China
- Cohen
- Corporate Finance
- Crack Cocaine
- Credit Suisse
- Dell
- Deutsche Bank
- European Union
- Ford
- France
- Goldman Sachs
- goldman sachs
- Gross Domestic Product
- Hershey
- India
- Insider Trading
- International Monetary Fund
- Ireland
- Japan
- JPMorgan Chase
- Mexico
- Morgan Stanley
- Newspaper
- Obama Administration
- Oklahoma
- Private Equity
- ratings
- Recession
- Reuters
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- SocGen
- United States Attorney
- Wall Street Journal
- Yen
- Yuan
- IMF Tells Central Europe to Spend More (WSJ)
- Tornadoes Blast Oklahoma (WSJ)
- Frenetic search for survivors as 91 feared dead in tornado-hit Oklahoma (Reuters)
- JPMorgan investors on edge over vote on Dimon; what if they win? (Reuters)
- Wealthy bank depositors to suffer losses in EU law (Reuters)
- Yen Slips as Amari Backtracks (BBG)
- Japan Ready for More Yen Weakness Despite Recent Comments (WSJ)
- IRS officials back on Capitol Hill hot seat over targeting (Reuters)
- Li Keqiang pledges China boost to India trade (FT)
- Europe's Recession Sparks Grass-Roots Political Push (WSJ)
- Obama and Xi to meet in effort to calm growing US-China rivalry (FT)
- Berlin plans to streamline EU but avoid wholesale treaty change (FT)
- France must reform or face punitive measures - EU's Oettinger (Reuters)
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Judd Gregg Redefines "Revolving Door" - From US Senator, To Goldman Sachs Advisor, To Head Of SIFMA
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/20/2013 08:51 -0400
Behold the definition of a "revolving door" - Judd Gregg: from US Senator, to Goldman Sachs advisor, to SIFMA head, all in under two years.
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Why Bulls Should Fear The "Money On The Sidelines"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/17/2013 17:52 -0400
Much has been made of equity inflows this week (though we note a significant outflow from high-yield bond funds - just as risk-on in its nature) and once again the money-on-the-sidelines fallacy is hawked at every opportunity. Two critical aspects are important to get past this 'fact' as some positive driver. First, money does not 'enter' the market, it is swapped (e.g. Person A's cash is used to buy shares from Person B; after the transaction the roles are swapped with Person B holding cash on the sidelines and Person A holding shares); and secondly, as Morgan Stanley's Gerard Minack notes, despite all the disclaimers – retail flows assume that past performance is a good guide to future outcomes. Consequently money tends to flow to investments that have done well, rather than investments that will do well.
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Morgan Stanley: "Most Of The Buying Has Come From Shorts Covered Rather Than Longs Bought"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/16/2013 13:35 -0400
Confirming what we explained recently, Morgan Stanley explains that among its equity long-short fund activity, the short activity (the net of shorts added and shorts covered) reached a minus-2 z-score indicating massive covering over the past 20 days. The last 3 times this occurred were April 2010 (S&P then fell 13% in 8 days), July 2011 (S&P then fell 19% in 23 days), and Oct 2011 (S&P then fell 10.5% in 20 days). Across sectors, Consumer Discretionary has been the most covered over the past week and month. Due to heavy covering, Discretionary short activity fell below a minus-3 z?score as of yesterday (now the highest long/short ratio of all sectors). It is worth keeping in mind, MS add, that historically speaking, the sector with the highest long/short ratio has often gone on to underperform over the following 6?12 months. This covering has driven median net leverage up to 64% (its 97th percentile of post crisis levels). Money-on-the-sidelines!! not so much... Massive short-covering rally - yes...
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Third Point Q1 Holdings Update: Reduces YHOO, AIG Stakes, Adds New Stakes In Virgin Media, Tiffany And B/E Aerospace
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/15/2013 17:05 -0400With Paulson's star long gone down, there are few remaining "new generation" hedge fund wunderkinds, especially in a world in which the best performing hedge fund is Federal Reserve Capital LLC - Onshore Fund. One among them is Third Point's Dan Loeb, who continues to be one of the best performing hedge fund managers for the 4th year in a row. He just filed his Q1 13F, amounting to $5.3 billion in disclosed long equity positions, which are summarized below. Of note are the following changes:
- New stakes in Virgin Media ($538MM), Tiffany ($188MM), Anadarko ($105MM), Thermo Fisher ($99MM), Cabot Oil and Gas ($84MM), Hess ($72MM) and others. Some of these overlap with the initiations of David Tepper and David Einhorn especially Hess: did some "idea dinners" take place in Q1 we were not aware of?
- Fully exited stakes in Tesoro, Morgan Stanley, Nexen, Symantec, Herbalife, Illumina, Coke, PVH, Abbott Labs and others.
- Reduced positions in Yahoo, AIG, New Corp, Murphy Oil, Delphi, Lyondell and others
- Added to stakes in International Paper, Abbvie, Dollar General, Constellation, and Ariad
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Tesla Announces Offering Of Common Stock, Convertible Notes
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/15/2013 16:19 -0400Several moments ago, TSLA (hardly) surprised the world when it filed an open-ended S-3 (Shelf) statement, as many had expected it was only a matter of time before the company used the recent surge in its stock price to sell shares. Then, a few moments later, TSLA once again (hardly) surprised the world when it announced a joint $450 million convertible bond and 2.7 million share common stock offering. And because a dilution is not a dilution if the founder is participating in the common offering (buying his own equity at an unprecedented price to "anchor" it as a benchmark- sure why not - after all he is making much on all the other equity he has in the firm that he is not buying, as a result), the stock is trading up after hours.
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Abenomics Brings Currency Wars to G7 Talks
Submitted by GoldCore on 05/10/2013 10:46 -0400
As the global economic slump continues central bankers, such as Mario Draghi, and politicians have vowed “to do whatever it takes” to get economies back on track. Such policies while having near term benefits are considered extremely risky in the longer run by many commentators as they could beckon runaway inflation or stagflation, with ruinous results.
Shinzo Abe unleashed his plan with the blessing of the Bank of Japan to begin aggressive government bond purchases. This has led to a massive growth of 60% on the Nikkei and is deflating the yen and boosting their exports.
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Overnight Sentiment: Buy In May, And Continue Buying In May As Global Easing Accelerates
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2013 06:59 -0400- Asset-Backed Securities
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bank of England
- BOE
- Bond
- Borrowing Costs
- British Pound
- Central Banks
- China
- Consumer Prices
- CPI
- Crude
- Deutsche Bank
- European Central Bank
- Fed Speak
- Goldman Sachs
- goldman sachs
- Greece
- High Yield
- Initial Jobless Claims
- Japan
- Jim Reid
- Markit
- Mervyn King
- Monetary Policy
- Morgan Stanley
- Nikkei
- recovery
- SocGen
- United Kingdom
- Volatility
- Yuan
With another listless macro day in the offing, the main event was the previously mentioned Bank of Korea 25 bps rate cut, which coming at a time when everyone else in the world is easing was not too surprising, but was somewhat unexpected in light of persistent inflationary pressures. Either way, the gauntlet at Abenomics has been thrown and any temporary Japanese Yen-driven export gains will likely not persist as it is the quality of products perception (sorry 20th century Toshiba and Sony), that is the primary determinant of end demand, not transitory, FX-driven prices. And now that Korea is set on once again matching Japan in competitiveness, the final piece of the Abenomics unwind puzzle has finally clicked into place. Elsewhere overnight, China reported consumer price inflation increasing by 2.4%, on expectations of a 2.3% rise, driven by a 4% jump in food costs: hardly the thing of Politburo dreams. Or perhaps the PBOC can just print more pigs, soy and birdflu-free chickens? On the other hand, PPI dropped 2.6% in April, on estimates of a 2.3% decline, as China telegraphs it has the capacity, if needed, to stimulate the economy. This is ironic considering its inflation pressures are externally-driven, and come from the Fed and the BOJ, and soon the BOE and ECB. And thus its economy stagnates while prices are driven higher by hot money flows. What to do?
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Are Stocks Still Cheap?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/03/2013 17:09 -0400
According to the media hype, stocks are never expensive; but if you care a little about the actual price you are paying for stocks, perhaps the following two charts will at least raise a doubt about chasing this fun-and-games. The prospective P/E on both US and non-US equities are now at the top of the post crash range. Multiple-expansion has driven the rally in large part on the basis that central banks have removed the downside tail to investing but at these valuations (and with the expectations that are still priced in for H2 2013 earnings - up 14% vs up 4% in H1) surely caution is warranted.
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Frontrunning: May 3
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/03/2013 07:40 -0400- AIG
- American International Group
- Apple
- Bond
- Capital Markets
- Central Banks
- China
- Clear Channel
- Cohen
- Corporate Finance
- European Central Bank
- Goldman Sachs
- goldman sachs
- GOOG
- Institutional Investors
- Iran
- Israel
- Japan
- JPMorgan Chase
- Keefe
- Kraft
- Market Share
- Markit
- Medicare
- Morgan Stanley
- Private Equity
- Quantitative Easing
- Renminbi
- Reuters
- SAC
- United Kingdom
- Verizon
- Wall Street Journal
- Warren Buffett
- World Trade
- Yuan
- U.S. Bulks Up to Combat Iran (WSJ)
- Taking sides in Syria is hard choice for Israel (Reuters)
- Gold Traders Most Bearish in Three Years After Drop (BBG)
- It's a Hard Job Predicting Payrolls Number (WSJ)
- EU economies to breach deficit limits as economic picture darkens (FT)
- IBM Says U.S. Justice Investigating Bribery Allegations (BBG)
- At Texas fertilizer plant, a history of theft, tampering (Reuters)
- SAC Sets Plan to Dock Pay in Cases of Wrongdoing (WSJ) - "in case of"?
- EU to propose duties on Chinese solar panels (Reuters)
- Billionaire Kaiser Exploiting Charity Loophole With Boats (BBG)
- SEC Zeroing In on 'Prime' Funds (WSJ)
- Apple Avoids $9.2 Billion in Taxes With Debt Deal (BBG)
- China April official services PMI at 54.5 vs 55.6 in March (Reuters)
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QE Has Been and Will Continue to Be a Complete Failure
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 05/02/2013 19:15 -0400There is not one single example in history in which QE has successfully created jobs. The UK has engaged in QE equal to over 20% of its GDP and hasn’t seen a real recovery in employment. Similarly, Japan has employed QE equal to nearly 25% of its GDP and GDP growth continues to slow while unemployment stays elevated.
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Previewing The ECB's Decision
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/02/2013 07:10 -0400The Fed may or may not be able to afford schizophrenia regarding the future of its monetary decisions (for now), but the ECB, in charge of a continent mired deep in depression, does not have that luxury. While consensus overwhelmingly expects a 25 bps cut in the main refinancing rate, some have warned that should the ECB not engage in such a cut, the EUR will tumble as the short covering squeeze ends with a thud. What exactly are the individual banks expecting? The following bulletin from Bloomberg summarizes it all.
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Frontrunning: May 1
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/01/2013 07:23 -0400- Apple
- Australia
- BAC
- Bain
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bank of England
- Barack Obama
- Bond
- Case-Shiller
- China
- Corporate Finance
- Fannie Mae
- Freddie Mac
- Futures market
- Goldman Sachs
- goldman sachs
- GOOG
- Keefe
- Mexico
- Morgan Stanley
- New Zealand
- North Korea
- Private Equity
- recovery
- Reuters
- Tender Offer
- United Kingdom
- Wall Street Journal
- Physical demand up: U.S. Mint Sales of Gold Coins Jump to Highest in Three Years (BBG)
- Paper demand down: Gold ETP Holdings Cap Record Drop as $17.9 Billion Wiped Out (BBG)
- It's May 1 not April 1: Fed Seen Slowing Stimulus With QE Cut by End of This Year (BBG)
- Another great step for Abenomics: Sony leadership to forgo bonuses after broken promise on profits (FT)
- High-Speed Traders Exploit Loophole (WSJ)
- It's peanut Breaburn jelly time: How Google UK clouds its tax liabilities (Reuters)
- Frowny face day at the Mark Zandi household: Obama Said to Choose Watt to Lead Fannie Mae Regulator (BBG)
- Russia’s 20 Biggest Billionaires Keep Riches From Putin (BBG)
- China Affair With Cheap Diamonds Heats Mass Market (BBG)
- China's emotional ties to North Korea run deep in border city (Reuters)
- US companies must use cash piles for capex (FT) ... and yet they aren't. Tax anyone who doesn't spend for CapEx!
- Chinese Way of Doing Business: In Cash We Trust (NYT)
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