Dollar Slumps, Small Caps Dump, Oil Pumped
Tyler Durden
Thu, 05/28/2020 – 16:02
Today’s stock action was dominated by a dramatic shift in Small Caps vs mega-cap tech as the US Cash open sparked a puke in the former and a panic-bid in the latter…but that all snapped when President Trump confirmed a China news conference tomorrow and commented in more detail on his intent to crack down on social media giants…
A serious shift in the recent regime…
Source: Bloomberg
Sell Small Caps Mortimer, Sell!…
On the week, Trannies are still best and Nasdaq the laggard…
Internet stocks v-shaped-recovered from yesterday’s opening drop…
FANG Stocks surged…
Source: Bloomberg
TWTR took a beating in the pre-open but was panic-bid as cash markets roused…
Treasury yields were mixed once again in a narrow range relative to stocks’ chaos (30Y +3bps, 2Y -1bps)
Source: Bloomberg
Steepening the yield curve back near the highest since Oct 2017…
Source: Bloomberg
The Dollar continued its recent demise to two-month lows…
Source: Bloomberg
…tumbling back below a key technical level (100DMA)…
Source: Bloomberg
Which helped lift oil prices (despite a huge crude build)
But the dollar doldrums didn’t help gold…
And silver outperformed again, pushing its ratio to gold lower still…
Source: Bloomberg
Bitcoin rallied further (chatter of Hong Kong capital flight)…
Source: Bloomberg
Hong Kong Dollar forwards are pricing in a serious devaluation in the currency (capital flight)…
Source: Bloomberg
Finally, we note that the chaos under the surface continues in quant-factor-land, with momentum underperforming value by the most since September…
Source: Bloomberg
As the recent surge in momo relative to value catches down to bond market reality…
Source: Bloomberg
Turn The Machines back on!!
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