This Week inward Barrons: 9-15-2019:
Thoughts:
It’s never been our science set, our noesis base, or our physical capacity that limits our development. It’s e'er been our internal narrative, our guts, our willingness to believe, as well as our powerfulness to aid plenty to accept a chance. You can’t do anything most the limitations of physics, but nosotros tin terminate modify the limits nosotros house on ourselves. To do that, nosotros call for to start out to live slightly more unreasonable. If you lot desire to acquire ‘unstuck’, if you lot desire to displace to higher ground, or if you lot desire to do something to a greater extent than worthwhile – the firstly interrogation is: “Are you lot willing to sacrifice as well as live unreasonable?”
And that is just why China will win the merchandise state of war with the U.S., as well as eventually wean itself off its reliance on American technology. “China volition never trust the USA again, as well as it volition attain its technological independence inside seven years,”David Roche, Independent Strategy’s president as well as global strategist, told CNBC’s Squawk Box. China has traditionally been reliant on U.S. suppliers for fundamental tech components such equally chips, software, telecom as well as jet engines. However, recent developments inward the merchandise state of war direct hold strained those ties as well as affected businesses from both sides.
In May, Chinese tech giant Huawei was placed on a U.S. blacklist, restricting the trouble solid from purchasing American-made chips as well as software unless they got permission to do so. Some American mobile networks utilization Huawei gear, as well as others direct hold flat-out declared that their revenue volition live affected yesteryear the blacklist. Google halted all concern activity with Huawei, a displace that agency futurity Huawei phones volition no longer come upwardly installed with Google’s Android operating system.
China is surveying its tech companies to guess their exposure to American suppliers, as well as also ramping upwardly evolution inward its ain tech industry. For example, it’s developing its ain chip manufacture nether the government-led ‘Made inward mainland People's Republic of China 2025’ initiative. Currently, entirely 16% of the semiconductors used inward mainland People's Republic of China are produced domestically. Under this initiative, mainland People's Republic of China volition make 40% of its semiconductors yesteryear 2020, as well as 70% yesteryear 2025.
Roche predicted that the goal of the merchandise state of war is non inward sight, because the U.S.-China merchandise state of war is non most trade. “It’s a conflict betwixt a rising global powerfulness as well as a declining one. It’s most technology. It’s most the gratis flow of ideas. And it’s rapidly becoming most the gratis flow of individuals. So it’s a conflict that merely won’t move away.”
And when you lot inquire yourself: “Who is willing to live unreasonable for a longer catamenia of time? Who tin terminate ‘sacrifice’ as well as follow a ‘willingness to believe’ for a decade?” The answer is easy. Heck, our financial institutions enshroud behind their size to legitimize their value. Our science sets are weakening, as well as our willingness to transfer noesis is nonexistent. This isn’t most watching sports, some other episode of ‘The Bachelor’, or believing inward aliens. We’re talking most distribution curves, probabilities, as well as Brownian motion. Unfortunately, my answer equally to whether the U.S. is willing to ‘suck-it-up’, as well as ‘bite-the-bullet’ for a decade is easy. Nope. We entirely win through sacrifice as well as beingness unreasonable.
The Market: Slowdown vs Recession – groovy question.
Most economists hold back increment to weaken, as well as the jury is out on whether it gets to recessionary levels. The economic scheme expanded yesteryear 2.9% inward 2018, volition deadening to 2.3% inward 2019, as well as volition entirely do 1.8% inward 2020. Some forecasters hold back the economic scheme to contract (turn negative) for 1 or 2 quarters inward 2020. A recession is oftentimes defined equally 2 consecutive quarters of negative output. Honestly, nosotros oftentimes entirely know that we’re inward a recession – when we’re firstly to come upwardly out of one. It’s doubtful that anyone volition direct hold the powerfulness to declare a recession earlier the 2020 election. Historically, it has taken betwixt six as well as 21 months from the start of a recession until its formal declaration.
Our FED has yet to signal recessionary fears, but the fact that the economic scheme is non inward a recession does non hateful that a slowdown is non upon us. Historically, economical increment below 1.75% triggers higher unemployment as well as slower wage growth. And those 2 together volition oftentimes times trigger recessions. Recessions are caused yesteryear workers losing paychecks – which causes consumers to draw dorsum sharply on their spending.
Slowdowns oftentimes come upwardly amongst gyrations inward fiscal markets, as well as that is for sure happening this fourth dimension around. Volatility feeds downward consumer sentiment. The University of Michigan confidence index showed cracks in August, with 1 inward 3 consumers mentioning tariffs. Mr. Trump has been insisting that the U.S. economic scheme has groovy momentum, as well as that it’s the FED’s reluctance to cutting involvement rates and the fear-mongering media (not his policies) that are risking a recession.
It’s widely thought that whatever interruption below 1.5% on the 10-year Treasury volition incite fears of a recessionary ‘tipping point’. We’ve seen elevated recession fears this summer, with the 2-year yield moving inward a higher house the 10-year – inverting the yield curve. And patch the 10-year Treasury regime annotation lately survived its tertiary seek of 1.5% which is a short-term positive – it sets upwardly a longer-term danger signal. Rate tacticians realize that oftentimes 3rdtime bounces set upwardly 4thtime laissez passer on throughs. To quote Matthew Graham (COO of Mortgage Daily News): “The large jeopardy hither is that the overall charge per unit of measurement rally that began inward Nov of 2018 – has run its course.” Our FED lowering rates volition direct hold petty number on a consumer that is positioned similar a deer inward headlights. You tin terminate take away heed to U.S.-China merchandise rhetoric all you lot want, but picket the 10-year. If it dips below 1.5%, then ‘all bets are off.’
Info Bits:
- Game of (Deal) Thrones: Over the weekend I learned that America's largest fiscal trouble solid (JPM) is close to winning the biggest IPO inward history: Saudi Arabian crude giant Saudi Aramco.
- Swipe Right - Jealous? Match (who owns Tinder) crumbled equally presently equally Facebook unveiled Facebook Dating. It’s been known for months that ‘The Zuck’ was getting into the swipe-game. The surprise was how much FB integrated Instagram into playing matchmaker. That cuts direct through Tinder's soul.
- SoftBank (which has invested to a greater extent than than $10B in WeWork) is urging the society to shelve its IPO. SoftBank is worried that they could human face upwardly challenges raising a 2ndfund if WeWork lists at a steep discount to its concluding funding round.
- Jack Ma (China’s richest person) has officially stepped downward equally executive chairman of Alibaba – the nearly half-trillion-dollar online-shopping giant that he co-founded inward an storey 2 decades ago.
- "Guys leave of absence of the way" Pierce Brosnan wants a adult woman to play James Bond. He’s truly trying to shake’n non stir things up.
- Who tin terminate you lot Anti-trust? Recently, there's been a debate over whether the federal regime should regulate large tech. Sen. Warren argues that tech giants similar Google, Facebook, as well as Amazon direct hold acquire besides large as well as powerful. Others wonder how this rule would ever live implemented.
- “Yes Siri, I would similar fries with that.” McDonalds acquired the AI society Apprente to assist create the drive-thru of the future. As long equally I tin terminate guild extra fries without beingness judged yesteryear a minimum-wage human – I’m good.
- It’s a slice of junk: Ford was downward concluding calendar week equally Moody’s downgraded their credit to junk. It’s never groovy when your pieces are beingness referred to as “junk”.
- “Dude –my photographic television receiver camera has a phone”: Okay, Apple is at nowadays all most the camera, your wellness (watch), as well as services. Apple TV+ is going to cost $4.99/month, making it the cheapest television receiver streaming service on the market. The number is that their content reflects the price. Their flagship TV present is a post-apocalyptic adventure called See, which looks absurd – as well as their most prominent game is a remake of Frogger (circa 1981). I don’t acquire it. Why don’t they just purchase Spotify?
- Uber set off 435 workers: which is most of their global R&D as well as engineering scientific discipline group. Who’s left to create those autonomous taxis?
- What's stronger than the stock market: Americans’ credit scores. Ranging from 300 to 850, the average FICO score just hitting an all-time high of 706.
- Unlimited Groceries: For $98 per year, Walmart is bringing grocery delivery nationwide. It’s a little toll to pay to never stair into 1 of their stores again.
Crypto-Bytes:
- Tokenized IPO: Last calendar week nosotros saw the firstly blockchain-based initial world offering (IPO), with the national stock telephone substitution of the Republic of Seychelles selling tokenized shares to investors worldwide. The shares – tokenized on earth Ethereum blockchain – became available Tuesday as well as forthwith valued the society at $25m.
- Priceless Master Stroke: Mastercard is developing a blockchain-powered cross-border payments platform inward partnership with R3. It volition initially live aimed at connecting faster payments schemes with banks backed yesteryear Mastercard’s clearing as well as village network.
- Sacre bleu: France's finance government minister said the European Union should be worried, as well as forthwith moved to block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency because it poses a existent threat to the sovereignty of national currencies. Bruno Le Maire said: “I desire to live absolutely clear, nosotros cannot authorize the evolution of Libra on European soil.”
- “How do nosotros stack up?” The United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland has the most crypto exchanges of whatever land worldwide (43). Coming inward at 2ndand 3rdplace respectively, are the U.S. (27) as well as Hong Kong (22).
Last Week: What a difference a calendar week makes…
- Apple showed us that their novel picket has an ‘always on’ style as well as is able to care our health. Then they became to a greater extent than similar MSFT yesteryear launching Apple TV for $4.99/month. Over the yesteryear lx days: (a) Netflix has raised prices as well as lost subscribers, (b) Disney introduced a streaming service with a boatload of groovy content for ½ the toll of Netflix, as well as (c) AppleTV came out to a huge user base, with minimal content, but a groovy household unit of measurement toll of $4.99/mo.
- The European CentralBank cut fundamental involvement rates, as well as revived an old QE program. Draghi lowered the deposit charge per unit of measurement from -0.4% to -0.5%. He also started buying bonds with a QE programme at the stride of 20B Euros/mo. He did non do equally much as many people had hoped. The initial response had our futures spiking higher, but settling downward substantially yesteryear the goal of the day. He as well as thence said that he’s reaching the limits of its stimulus powers. Awe come upwardly on Mr. Draghi, you lot tin terminate e'er just ship people gratis money can’t cha?
- Our FED keeps jawboning most its 25 footing call for cutting that is coming. I call back they volition say "that's it for now" and the marketplace may non similar that.
- U.S.-China trade talks could make an October watered downward merchandise deal. China did say that it was moving to purchase U.S. agricultural products after President Trump agreed to delay his side yesteryear side circular of tariffs. I call back nosotros just maintain trending higher. What’s to halt us – earnings? Nah, they're made upwardly anyway.
Weed:
- Growing:
o U.S. farmers have licenses to grow511,442 acres of hemp this year.
o Of those511,422 licensed acres,only 230,000 acres are beingness planted.
o Of those 230,000 planted acres, only 125,000 acres volition live harvested.
o Of those 125,000 harvested acres, no 1 knows how much CBD extraction volition occur, but everyone agrees that ‘branding’ as well as ‘provenance’ volition live the winners going frontwards equally the extract becomes commoditized.
o Conclusion: Less than 18% of the headline licensed fields volition live harvested as well as turned into feasible CBD. The large winners move on to live those who know how to grow, care, cultivate and SCALE.
- The FDA is expected to number a regulatory update on CBD inward the coming month. I hold back them to accept the middle-ground to speed the availability of lawful, hemp-derived CBD inward nutrient as well as dietary supplements equally described yesteryear one-time FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb inward his July thirty op-ed inward the Washington Post. Gottlieb's framework would involve a catamenia of enforcement discretions that would forthwith allow low-dose CBD inward foods/supplements thence long equally products run into sure weather condition (good manufacturing requirements, traceability, rubber levels for purity as well as potency). I believe that such a proposal would live the start of a procedure that would call for to live defined for CBD – as well as accept six to 12 months. This stance volition maintain Pepsi as well as Coke on the sidelines for developing CBD as well as other cannabis-based products for the close future.
- Recovery Drinks: Canopy Growthis planning a CBD "recovery drink"down the line, as well as may start to develop that production inward Canada. Recently Aurora (ACB) announced a articulation enquiry inaugural on hemp-derived CBD with the UFC.
- The CBD customer: As retailers create upwardly one's take away heed whether CBD products are an emerging tendency or just hype, novel enquiry from Acosta finds that to a greater extent than than a quarter of U.S. consumersare at nowadays using them.
o 28% of consumers polled utilization CBD products on an as-needed (19%) or daily (9%) basis.
o The top uses of CBD products are for articulation pain, full general wellness, musculus pain, anxiety, as well as slumber issues.
o 59% of first-time CBD production purchases were planned, compared with 25% beingness an impulse buy, as well as 7% doctor-recommended.
o 55% agreed with the statement: "CBD crude is/might live a novel miracle treatment", versus 35% beingness unsure what to call back most CBD oil, as well as 11% deeming the products as "just hype."
o Millennials most oftentimes utilization CBD products to ease anxiety (31%) as well as for full general wellness (30%).
o Gen Xers as well as Boomers, utilization the products to alleviate: articulation hurting (31%), stress (36%), as well as musculus hurting (23%).
o 26% of consumers who direct hold NOT tried CBD call back that they are besides expensive, 18% said at that topographic point aren’t plenty studies, 14% don’t trust the claims, as well as 13% call back there’s non plenty regulation.
o Retailers tin terminate entice to a greater extent than consumers to endeavor CBD products yesteryear providing samples, entry-level pricing, in-store educational activity (including knowledgeable staff), coupons as well as discounts, user testimonials, as well as access to research.
- A Marijuana banking pecker appears headed for a U.S. House vote: later this month. This would enable fiscal institutions to serve the cannabis manufacture as well as ancillary companies without fright of federal punishment.
- Aurora plans a ‘significant’ United States marijuana entry: saidCEO Terry Booth. Aurora is “laser focused”on exploring opportunities inward the U.S. involving CBD derived from hemp.
- Marijuana manufacture donations: are over $305,000 to U.S. congressional members inward the firstly one-half of 2019. This exceeds concluding year’s full yesteryear over 20%.
Next Week: Watch the bonds as well as rates / the TLT as well as the TNX.
Marko Kolanovic, caput quant at J.P. Morgan, says extreme divergences inward the marketplace direct hold led to the displace inward value stocks as well as that tendency should continue. Given the rotation trade, Kolanovic expects to a greater extent than upside potential inward little caps, cyclicals, value, as well as emerging marketplace stocks than inward the broad S&P 500. In July, the strategist said the rotation into value stocks was setting upwardly for a ‘once inward a decade’ opportunity.
With the firstly leg beingness inward the books (ECB lowering rates), next upwardly volition live our FED side yesteryear side week. Are they going to cutting or stand upwardly firm? I’m betting that they volition cutting rates yesteryear 25 footing points – but the probability of them doing zip has risen substantially over the yesteryear week. And as well as thence come upwardly the mainland People's Republic of China talks, as well as already at that topographic point are to a greater extent than olive branches beingness offered up. mainland People's Republic of China may allow companies to resume purchases of U.S. agricultural products. In response, Trump has delayed the imposition of some other 250B of tariffs on Chinese goods, from Oct 1 to Oct 15. Remember, lower storey talks come upwardly inward a calendar week as well as a half, with the large shots coming inward to run into with Mnuchin as well as the boys inward October. If nosotros acquire a bargain out of all this, nosotros volition direct hold the triple play. But side yesteryear side calendar week – a lot of motion is on the table.
Factually:
- Risk is flight high patch nosotros close all-time highs: that just shouldn’t happen. Next week’s expected displace inward the SPX is $42. For the yesteryear 3 weeks, nosotros direct hold just hitting the expected displace to the upside.
- Rut Roh Nasdaq: (see nautical chart below) as well as notice how apace the little cap index (IWM / RUT) is catching upwardly to the tech-heavy Nasdaq.
- Gold higher or lower – house your bets: It’s all based upon the bonds as well as where the marketplace wants to displace rates. The best play hither is an ‘Infinity Spread’ centered around 100 days out inward December, 2019.
- Bonds as well as Rates: (see combo nautical chart above)
o Bonds had a 4.3 Std. Deviation displace concluding calendar week … mathematically this can’t happen, but it did!
o Volatility of Bonds is higher than SPX (unheard of).
o Snap Back or The Big Collapse Bonds volition displace 1 way or the other.
o Rates the probability of the FED NOT moving rates is gaining inward popularity. IF that happens, abode builders (XHB), utilities (XLU), Home Depot (HD), as well as XLP volition move crazy to the downside. Inexpensive PUT options are out at that topographic point for the taking.
o Volatility of the Volatility (VVIX) Traders are buying the VVIX equally a hedge against a bond collapse. Right at nowadays the probability of a charge per unit of measurement cutting is diminishing as well as professional person traders are worried. What if the marketplace all of a abrupt becomes a ‘rising involvement rate’ environs – all yesteryear itself?
Please move on to heighten cash, merchandise small, as well as accept profits quickly. Be safe.
Tips:
Top Equity Recommendations:
HODL’s:
- Aurora (ACB = $5.95 / inward @ $3.07)
- First Majestic Silver (AG = $9.31 / inward @ 10.50)
- Canopy Growth Corp (CGC = $27.46 / inward @ $22.17),
- DRD Gold (DGD = $3.79 / inward @ $4.20),
- GBTC (GBTC = $12.59 / inward @ $10.01),
- GameStop (GME = $4.41 / inward @ 4.00),
- Pan American Silver (PAAS = $16.23 / inward @ 18.00)
Crypto:
- Bitcoin (BTC = $10,500)
- Ethereum (ETH = $190)
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH = $310)
Options:
- RIOT ($2.12):
o Bot January 17, Sold $3 Call / Sold $3 Put / Bot $4 Call for $1.85 CR
o Bot January 17, Sold $2 Call / Sold $2 Put / Bot $3 Call for $1.45 CR
o (can entirely lose money if RIOT falls below $0.70).
Thoughts:
- VIX = $13.74 With bonds as well as golden selling off a fleck inward the concluding few days, it seems that what was incorrect with the globe is at nowadays fixed – right? But what if that’s non the case? Maybe it’s the weakness inward Europe that’s spurring the ECB to denote novel stimulus measures. Or possibly it’s just that we’re headed into autumn when volatility tin terminate pick upwardly as well as ship the marketplace to who knows where. Speaking of volatility, the VIX is dorsum downward inward the xiii handle, indicating relative calm. If you lot call back the VIX mightiness rally over the side yesteryear side calendar month (or at to the lowest degree non autumn much more), the long Call vertical that’s long the $14 Call as well as brusk the $17 Call inward the Oct expiration is a bullish strategy that has a 55% probability of profiting yesteryear expiration.
- Google (GOOGL = $1,239) With the Feds as well as a bulk of the U.S. peering into GOOGL at the behest of its competitors inward the online promotion space, you’d call back the stock mightiness drop. Nope. Anti-trust doesn’t scare GOOGL. The marketplace seems to believe that GOOGL volition live able to avoid whatever major restrictions on its concern or monetary penalties. After all, when you’re worth over $840B, you lot tin terminate afford practiced attorneys. But GOOGL is nonetheless the 4th largest company, behind MSFT as well as AAPL, which are over $1T, as well as AMZN. It’s implied volatility rank stands at 13% - which suggests long debit spreads. If you lot call back GOOGL won’t live fazed yesteryear the investigations as well as volition move on to rally, a long, just out of the money Call vertical inward the Oct monthly expiration has a 61% probability of making 50% of its max turn a profit earlier expiration.
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