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Deep breaths, everyone

Market crises are mixed and complicated. However, the noise last week can be completed with a slight loss in three standard schedules. Long treasures give a hard, driving product:

The dollar fell too much:

And the intended capital variability rose to five years of high:

Last week is a combination for this being so scary. When the change is high, one is waiting for the treasury productivity because they seek the security of investors sovereignty in the United States. This did not happen. When the revenues were rising, we expect the dollar to rise, international differences expanded. This did not happen.

The picture is simple: the economic policer of the Trump administration, high shortcomings and incomprehensible incompetence in the deterioration of high shortcomings and stretching inflation. Productivity is likely to remain volatile. Global investors respond to this fact by requiring a higher product to own treasures. The selling of the treasures pulled down the dollars. All this has been revered to a highly used hedge fund trading in a high level of volatility.

It feels affordable, because the reliability of dollars and treasures is only the foundation of every global market. If things don’t get better soon, who knows who can happen.

Time to step back. Five things to remember:

• Don’t read many things too much at the point of incection. All types of portfolio managers are very hurriedly reorganizing their holdings. This causes dislocation, some will be temporary. One day, a week, and will look different for a month from today. To announce the end of the dollar’s advantage, very early and treasures will never risk or overcome the US capital.

• The weakening of the dollar and the increase in productivity is not excessive. Like the graphs shown, the dollar returned to its level in the face of the presidential election and reached the level of February. The actions were terrible, but they did not go terrible.

• When the market is up ante, Trump is folded. Trump has now supported market pressure twice in a few days, first in China and then in China and then “mutual” tariffs. This may not reduce the US asset prize. Unexpected remains when policies are withdrawn At all. However, it will reduce short-term economic damage.

• At a high level, productivity is logical. Tariffs increase the risk of inflation and the financial situation in the United States remains in the air. In addition, Chief Economist James Egelhof in the US BNP Paribas, if Trump has achieved a lower trade shortage. Trade deficits and capital flow must match. If the first one falls down, it will be the last and likely means less treasury demand and higher productivity.

• The economy is strong. The United States added 228,000 jobs last month. Inflation falls. The gain was healthy. Yes, we are swimming in unchanging waters. But the vessel is the sound.

Good luck this week.

Classes from the oil crisis of 1973

The Fed is in the hot seat. Awaiting something avin Until the Trump’s tariffs are stuck. If these expectations are carried out, the bank will have to choose between their employment and price stability mandates. Meanwhile, the Treasury market can be strained and should be forced to intervene in the Fed and said the bank is ready do so much. In the background, the financial situation in the United States is in the air: Republicans are in line with tax reductions, but not reduce costs.

All these rhymes were engaged in a little stop with the Fed for the last time: the 1973 oil crisis.

The standard account works as follows. Arthur Burns, the Fed Department since 1978, did not suffice in the 1970s after a number of financial shocks, Nixon’s salary control and changes in global currency mode. When the oil crisis was shot in 1973, he was not strong enough when he caused himself to be difficult. Paul Volcker, his successor, pushed the ratios through the ceiling, the recession and the crushed inflation was so badly worsened. Since then it has been hanged.

Burns are united unfair rap – Volker was forced to fight global macroeconomic changes that have to fight global macroeconomic changes in both the crane and burns of the economy. But the lesson remains. It is more poisonous than inflation, which allows you to spread inflation and increase long-term inflation expectations. Central bankers, “they look after” inflation shock in their own threats.

Most Powell – and most other central banks – wanted to imitate Walkcker and pay attention to prices. After a malicious delay, they did not look at 2022 inflation growth. In Recent statementsPowell, reset from scratches and zero, especially the long-term inflation expectations asked not to anchor. There are still most actions.

Our guess is that Powell will resist the risk of cutting very early and burning the burning way. However, in some meanings, its condition is more sensitive than burns. A fat shock stops more openly than tariffs. At that time, the United States and the World Economy trusted in oil, and expensive energy was carried out to slow growth and warm inflation. The effects of tariffs are more difficult to predict because it is partly low for so long. Fortunately, Powell begins with more inflation. Was the CPI title on Thursday 2.4 per cent7.4 percent at the start of the OPEC embargo.

Investors and Fed inflation expectations will be closely monitored. By the Fed-in had a preferred The measurement using both the actions and survey information of both treasury bonds is still limited. But there is a star next to these numbers. Soft information like Michigan survey shows that longer term expectations may be rising. If unemployment rises at the beginning of inflation, the Fed can be cut accurately in the wrong time and the similarities can deepen in 1973.

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