Emerging Market’s Laughing Off a “Hawkish Fed”

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Rate Hikes?  What Rate Hikes?

CBOE’s Emerging Markets ETF Volatility Index getting closer to a three year low this week, after a 17% plunge in since Friday.

Something happened on the way to the Fed rate hike tomorrow, global markets forgot to take the U.S. central bank seriously.

In 2015-16, the Fed promised the world seven rate hikes, then only delivered one before the U.S. presidential election and another after the election of Donald Trump.  There’s a price to pay for playing politics with rate hikes, and now the FOMC is paying it.

The Boy that Cried Wolf

Globally, investors are laughing off the Fed.  “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” is their thinking.

To add further insult, the world’s biggest bond traders see no reason to stay away from long-term Treasuries as the Federal Reserve is on the brink of its most aggressive round of rate hikes in more than a decade.  The U.S. 5s – 30s curve is the flattest in years, there’s strong demand for long term bonds even in the face of Trump’s growth agenda and “rate hikes.”

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CBOE Emerging Markets ETF Volatility Index

EM Vol

“Volatility isn’t just fading in U.S. stocks any more, if option-based indicators similar to the VIX Index are any guide. A CBOE index linked to an exchange-traded fund for European and Asian developed markets recorded its biggest-ever loss on Monday. The gauge closed at its lowest since calculations began in 2008.”

Bloomberg

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Bond Love Affair Rolls On

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After 10,000 news stories lecturing us about the death of the bond market, global investors cannot get enough investment grade paper.

U.S. companies are issuing bonds at the fastest pace ever. And investors say the Federal Reserve’s next rate hike may do little to change that.

Bond Sales Nearly 20% Ahead of 2016’s Record Pace

Investment-grade firms are on track to complete the busiest first quarter for debt sales since at least 1999. Firms from Apple Inc. to Morgan Stanley have pushed new issues to more than $360 billion so far in 2017, closing in on the previous record of $381 billion from 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Three Weeks Left

IG Sales Surge

Pending tax reform legislation in Washington is incentivizing corporate bond issuers to pile into the primary (new issue) market like never before.  CFOs are afraid politicians will take away interest deductibility going forward, so they’re selling next year’s paper today.  The market is dramatically over supplied.

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