Alright, let’s do this twitter thing.
1/ I started @prometheusmacro in 2020 as a free blog to develop and share my ideas on macro and investing. Fast forward to today and Prometheus is a fast growing macro research firm servicing some of the biggest institutions in the world…
For years, buybacks have been a tailwind for stocks.
On the latest First Principles, @dampedspring breaks down what happens when that tailwind runs into a wave of new issuance.
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We discuss:
☑️ What happens when buybacks turn into issuance
☑️ The funding of AI CapEx
☑️ How dissaving and the wealth effect are supporting the economy
☑️ Why falling oil may shift inflation rather than end it
☑️ How Fed policy might change under Warsh
Jeff DeGraaf, who does a lot of good quant work, mentioning that number one signal for recognizing when the momentum unwind is imminent is the behavior of credit spreads (I assume he means widening)
At a macro level investors are rarely *forced* to buy stocks.
But more often than not, they are forced to sell them (vol, drawdown, risk etc).
Provide those forced sellers some liquidity and you do decently well.
The latest industrial production shows some signs of potential slowing for industrial equities. Nothing big.
Meanwhile, earnings momentum for the industrial sector remains very high.
Not a force to fight
Worried about a bubble?
There are many things you can do.
One of those things is to keep a very careful watch of earnings momentum. You pick how you define that.
When it falls, exit the sector. In a true bubble, you'll find you exit almost all sectors in succession:
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