{"id":38998,"date":"2018-10-11T09:21:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38998"},"modified":"2018-10-11T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:21:25","slug":"albert-edwards-equity-investors-are-facing-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38998","title":{"rendered":"Albert Edwards: &#8220;Equity Investors Are Facing The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-11\/albert-edwards-equity-investors-are-facing-four-horsemen-apocalypse\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Albert Edwards: &#8220;Equity Investors Are Facing The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1214\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1214\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Even SocGen&#8217;s Albert Edwards was surprised at how quickly his latest predication was validated.<\/p>\n<p>Recall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-20\/albert-edwards-why-next-recession-might-only-be-six-months-away\">that 3 weeks ago <\/a>with the 10Y yield at 3.10%, with Edwards looking at the surge higher in 10Y Yields the SocGen strategist pointed out that the break in the 10y above 2.8% was not the key level that could mark the end of the secular bull market, but rather it was the 3.05% zone as shown in the chart below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/10Y%20trendline%20socgen.jpg\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/10Y%20trendline%20socgen.jpg\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/10Y%20trendline%20socgen.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/10Y%20trendline%20socgen.jpg?itok=FTI9uy0J 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"435\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"54e40c0f-eed9-42ed-a100-d7c798f05224\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on this breakout, he said that rates might surge further and addressed whether this would mean the end his &#8220;Ice Age&#8221; thesis. As he noted, if investors \u201cget the wrong side of a new multi-year bear market in government bonds, all investment\u00a0 portfolios will be shredded to ribbons as bonds are the cornerstone of most equity valuation models\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to today when in his latest note he writes &#8220;let me be totally honest: I<strong> was most surprised that the US 10y yield managed to smash through its multi-decade downtrend last week, mainly due to the fact that the CFTC data showed that speculators had already built unprecedented large short positions.<\/strong> It seemed that every man, woman and child was already bearish and so who was left to sell? Well clearly someone was! One thing that helped tip bond prices over the edge and take yields up to 3\u00bc% was the fundamental support from stronger than expected economic data (see chart below). &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/ae%20positive%20data.jpg?itok=Q3K6UKlr\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/ae%20positive%20data.jpg?itok=Q3K6UKlr\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/ae%20positive%20data.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ae%20positive%20data.jpg?itok=Q3K6UKlr 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"7610b3c1-33c2-417a-9cbe-30a0b5d8c5dc\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another factor for the latest breakout in yields which pushed the 10Y interest rate to fresh 7 years highs was the previously discussed economic exuberance by Fed Chair Powell who managed to convince markets that they were still too sanguine on their expectations on interest rates, &#8220;and the futures strip ratcheted up another notch towards the Fed dots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Edwards: &#8220;Equity Investors Are Facing The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse&#8221; Even SocGen&#8217;s Albert Edwards was surprised at how quickly his latest predication was validated. Recall that 3 weeks ago with the 10Y yield at 3.10%, with Edwards looking at the surge higher in 10Y Yields the SocGen strategist pointed out that the break [&hellip;]<\/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":[5150,5186,303,431,2228,534,6770,3650,4318],"class_list":["post-38998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-albert-edwards","tag-bull-market","tag-fed","tag-interest-rates","tag-market","tag-monetary-policy","tag-socgen","tag-us-federal-reserve","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38998","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=38998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38999,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38998\/revisions\/38999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}