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• Brent crude prices rallied further today, gaining around 6% as the EU contemplates taking draconic action against Russia in the form of banning energy imports. The oil price rises from $108/b to $114/b. Ukraine rejected Russia’s ultimatum to surrender the port city of Mariupol. It’s telling that German economy minister Habeck this weekend announced after talks in Doha that both countries’ commercial entities would re-engage and progress discussions on long term LNG supplies from Qatar to Germany. Higher energy prices, but commodity prices bar Nickel in general, continue to feed through in rising bond yields via inflation expectations. The latter is especially true for Europe. The German yield curve bear steepens with yield adding 3.4 bps (2-yr) to 8 bps (30-yr). The German 10-yr yield pushes beyond last week’s top around 0.40% (76% retracement on 2018/2020 decline) to currently reach 0.44%. Final intermediate resistance ahead of the 0.81% 2018 top stands at 0.58%. The EU 10y swap rate at 1.07% has the 2018 top at 1.19% already within reach. ECB President Lagarde at a speech didn’t comment directly on monetary policy, but said that even in the gloomiest ECB scenario, the EMU would still record positive growth levels this year despite the war in Ukraine. It suggests no immediate backing down on the recently started battle to tackle inflation. US yields add 6.5 bps (30-yr) to 8.8 bps (5-yr) with the belly of the curve outperforming the wings. The US 10-yr yield is testing the recovery top at 2.23%. Non-voting Atlanta Fed Bostic gave some personal views following last week’s FOMC meeting. He favours six rate increases in total over 2022 and two more in 2023. His preference would be moving quickly on the balance sheet to complement rate hikes. Should the inflation outlook deteriorate even further, he would also be willing to lift policy rates above neutral by hiking in steps of >25 bps. Trading on FX markets is rather muted compared with action on bond markets. EUR/USD switches sides around the 1.1050 handle. Sterling marginally outperforms with EUR/GBP diving from 0.84 towards 0.8370. UK Gilts today underperformed German Bunds with UK yields adding 8.3 bps (2-yr) to 11.7 bps (10-yr).
• The Belgian debt agency today conducted its first regular monthly tap auction after January and February plans were annulled because of syndicated deals. They raised a combined €3.1bn today (upper end of €2.3-3.1bn target range) by selling OLO 87 (€0.81bn Jun2029), OLO 94 (€1.52bn Jun2032) and OLO 90 (€0.8bn Jun2040). The auction bid cover was a solid 2.39. The Belgian debt agency now completed around 32% of this year’s €41.2bn OLO funding need.
News Headlines
• The Czech koruna is enjoying a good bid today, outperforming not only regional but many of its global peers. EUR/CZK declines (CZK strengthens) from Friday’s close at 24.87 to 24.68 in the wake of CNB governor Rusnok’s televised interview on Sunday. He said board members will discuss whether to put the enormous FX reserves to work and use them as an additional monetary policy tool to primarily prevent the koruna from excessive depreciation. Rusnok said they will also discuss to take it a step further, selling reserves not only to stabilize the CZK but also to strengthen it temporarily and use it as an anti-inflationary tool. Inflation soared to 11.1% in February, miles above the 2% (+1 ppt margin) target. The CNB has jacked up policy rates by 425 bps to 4.5% in response. The next policy meeting takes place on March 31.
• The chip supply shortage is moving higher in the chain. As a result of exceptionally strong global chip demand, manufacturers are seeking to significantly expand production capacity. But these expansion plans are facing hurdles themselves, with equipment to produce chips running short over an estimated next two years. Industry leaders referred in an interview with the Financial Times to one crucial component, the lens, which aside from the time needed to build clean rooms, ask for permits, start building the factory, hire people etc., takes more than 12 months just to make it.
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US Treausry yield curve today and ahead of Fed: markets more and more align with possibility of lifting policy rate (slightly) above neutral
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Opinions expressed are our current opinions as of the date appearing on this material only and can be opposite to previous recommendations due to changed market conditions.
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Given the nature of this advice (linked to currencies and interest rates) , the advice is overall not specific in nature. As such there is no reference to any corporate finance contract and as such there is no 12 month overview based on the different advices.
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KBC Sunset Market Commentary 21/03/2022 via Trader Talent
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Daily Market Overview
Click here to read the PDF-version of this report.
• Brent crude prices rallied further today, gaining around 6% as the EU contemplates taking draconic action against Russia in the form of banning energy imports. The oil price rises from $108/b to $114/b. Ukraine rejected Russia’s ultimatum to surrender the port city of Mariupol. It’s telling that German economy minister Habeck this weekend announced after talks in Doha that both countries’ commercial entities would re-engage and progress discussions on long term LNG supplies from Qatar to Germany. Higher energy prices, but commodity prices bar Nickel in general, continue to feed through in rising bond yields via inflation expectations. The latter is especially true for Europe. The German yield curve bear steepens with yield adding 3.4 bps (2-yr) to 8 bps (30-yr). The German 10-yr yield pushes beyond last week’s top around 0.40% (76% retracement on 2018/2020 decline) to currently reach 0.44%. Final intermediate resistance ahead of the 0.81% 2018 top stands at 0.58%. The EU 10y swap rate at 1.07% has the 2018 top at 1.19% already within reach. ECB President Lagarde at a speech didn’t comment directly on monetary policy, but said that even in the gloomiest ECB scenario, the EMU would still record positive growth levels this year despite the war in Ukraine. It suggests no immediate backing down on the recently started battle to tackle inflation. US yields add 6.5 bps (30-yr) to 8.8 bps (5-yr) with the belly of the curve outperforming the wings. The US 10-yr yield is testing the recovery top at 2.23%. Non-voting Atlanta Fed Bostic gave some personal views following last week’s FOMC meeting. He favours six rate increases in total over 2022 and two more in 2023. His preference would be moving quickly on the balance sheet to complement rate hikes. Should the inflation outlook deteriorate even further, he would also be willing to lift policy rates above neutral by hiking in steps of >25 bps. Trading on FX markets is rather muted compared with action on bond markets. EUR/USD switches sides around the 1.1050 handle. Sterling marginally outperforms with EUR/GBP diving from 0.84 towards 0.8370. UK Gilts today underperformed German Bunds with UK yields adding 8.3 bps (2-yr) to 11.7 bps (10-yr).
• The Belgian debt agency today conducted its first regular monthly tap auction after January and February plans were annulled because of syndicated deals. They raised a combined €3.1bn today (upper end of €2.3-3.1bn target range) by selling OLO 87 (€0.81bn Jun2029), OLO 94 (€1.52bn Jun2032) and OLO 90 (€0.8bn Jun2040). The auction bid cover was a solid 2.39. The Belgian debt agency now completed around 32% of this year’s €41.2bn OLO funding need.
News Headlines
• The Czech koruna is enjoying a good bid today, outperforming not only regional but many of its global peers. EUR/CZK declines (CZK strengthens) from Friday’s close at 24.87 to 24.68 in the wake of CNB governor Rusnok’s televised interview on Sunday. He said board members will discuss whether to put the enormous FX reserves to work and use them as an additional monetary policy tool to primarily prevent the koruna from excessive depreciation. Rusnok said they will also discuss to take it a step further, selling reserves not only to stabilize the CZK but also to strengthen it temporarily and use it as an anti-inflationary tool. Inflation soared to 11.1% in February, miles above the 2% (+1 ppt margin) target. The CNB has jacked up policy rates by 425 bps to 4.5% in response. The next policy meeting takes place on March 31.
• The chip supply shortage is moving higher in the chain. As a result of exceptionally strong global chip demand, manufacturers are seeking to significantly expand production capacity. But these expansion plans are facing hurdles themselves, with equipment to produce chips running short over an estimated next two years. Industry leaders referred in an interview with the Financial Times to one crucial component, the lens, which aside from the time needed to build clean rooms, ask for permits, start building the factory, hire people etc., takes more than 12 months just to make it.
Graphs & Table
EUR/CZK: CZK boosted by intervention talk of CNB governor Rusnok
EU 10y swap rate closes in on 2018 top of 1.19%
Brent crude rallies bock towards $115/b as Europe contemplated energy import bans
US Treausry yield curve today and ahead of Fed: markets more and more align with possibility of lifting policy rate (slightly) above neutral
This document has been prepared by the KBC Economics Markets desk and has not been produced by the Research department. The desk consists of Mathias Van der Jeugt, Peter Wuyts and Mathias Janssens, analists at KBC Bank N.V., which is regulated by the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA).
These market recommendations are the result of qualitative analysis, incorporating room for past experiences and personal assessments. The views are based on current market circumstances and can change any moment. The most prominent input comes from publicly available data, financial news, economic and monetary policies and commonly used technical analysis.
The KBC Economics – Markets desk has used reasonable efforts to obtain this information from sources which it believes to be reliable but the contents of this document have been prepared without any substantive analysis being undertaken into these sources.
It has not been assessed as to whether or not these insights would be suitable for any particular investor.
Opinions expressed are our current opinions as of the date appearing on this material only and can be opposite to previous recommendations due to changed market conditions.
The authors of this recommendation do not warrant the accuracy, completeness or value (commercial or otherwise) of any recommendation. Neither are the authors liable to those who receive these recommendations for the content of it or for any loss or damage arising (whether in tort (including negligence), breach of contract, breach of statutory duty or otherwise) from any actions or omissions of the authors in reliance on any recommendation, or for any claim whatsoever in respect of the content of, or information contained in, any recommendation. Any opinions expressed herein reflect the judgement at the time the investment recommendation was prepared and are subject to change without notice.
Given the nature of this advice (linked to currencies and interest rates) , the advice is overall not specific in nature. As such there is no reference to any corporate finance contract and as such there is no 12 month overview based on the different advices.
This document is only valid during a very limited period of time, due to rapidly changing market conditions.
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