{"id":30876,"date":"2018-02-12T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30876"},"modified":"2018-02-12T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:29:00","slug":"bill-blain-the-unintended-consequences-are-finally-coming-back-to-bite-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30876","title":{"rendered":"BIll Blain: “The Unintended Consequences Are Finally Coming Back To Bite Us”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BIll Blain: “The Unintended Consequences Are Finally Coming Back To Bite Us”<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Fundamentals ok, Technicals corrected, so why we should still be nervous on what comes next for markets…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf the apocalypse comes, tweet me..\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

That was an interesting week that was…. but what a hangover we face! What happened to the global bull stock market? Just as the party was looking likely to carry on forever, the music stopped… Reading through market the scribblers this morning, the consensus seems to be it was just a correction, and we should be buying the dips. I\u2019m always a big supporter of buying dips…. I\u2019m not so keen on buying into a more secular decline.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thing is, it feels there is nothing particular we can put the finger on as responsible for last week\u2019s stock market ructions. Bond yields rose a bit, inflation has gathered a bit of momentum, and economic fundamentals remain generally positive and are expected to improve in line with rising growth estimates. There is little threat of an oil-shock. Folk have pointed out that with so much money likely to be invested in share-buybacks and special dividends by US companies repatriating cash, the stock fundamentals look positive.<\/p>\n

Central banks remain hawkish re normalisation and higher interest rates – but modestly so. A world with moderate on-trend inflation, still low interest rates, and solid growth prospects should be positive. A screaming buy signal.<\/p>\n

Others say last week\u2019s pain was technically driven \u2013 on the back of a massive sudden and shocking unwind of \u201cshort-vol\u201d trades. Others say if was due to AI driven algorithmic traders, while the FT carries a story about insurance companies dumping massive amounts of stocks, triggered by rising volatility, linked to \u201cmanaged volatility\u201d variable annuities.<\/p>\n

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BIll Blain: “The Unintended Consequences Are Finally Coming Back To Bite Us” Fundamentals ok, Technicals corrected, so why we should still be nervous on what comes next for markets… \u201cIf the apocalypse comes, tweet me..\u201d That was an interesting week that was…. but what a hangover we face! What happened to the global bull stock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15674,3186,391,426,4148,2443,3067,4318],"class_list":["post-30876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-bill-blain","tag-bond-yields","tag-growth","tag-inflation","tag-market-correction","tag-stock-markets","tag-unintended-consequences","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30877,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30876\/revisions\/30877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}