12Jul2016 Market Update: SP 500 Climbs To New Historic Highs, Crude Prices Still Melting Upwards, US Dollar Trading Mostly Sideways

Here is the current market situation from CNN Money

North and South American markets are broadly higher today with shares in Brazil leading the region. The Bovespa is up 1.05% while U.S.’s S&P 500 is up 0.78% and Mexico’s IPC is up 0.60%.

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Dreadful 10 Year Auction: Massive Tail, Plunging Bid to Cover, Fleeing Foreign Bidders

It has been years since we have seen as dreadful a 10 Year auction as the just concluded sale of $20 billion in 10 Year paper.

With a high yield of 1.516%, the 10Y auction tailed a whopping 1.2bps to the When Issued, the biggest tail going back years.

Things got even worse when looking at the crashing Bid to Cover, which plunged from 2.70 just a month ago to a paltry 2.33, was the lowest since March of 2009.

The internals were likewise a disaster: the Indirect Bidders, after constantly soaking up 10Y paper over for the past 2 years, simply fled, taking down just 54.3% of the final allottment, down from 73.6% last month. And with Directs likewise barely budging, and holding 7.9% of the final proceeds, it meant Primary Dealers had to step up big time and purchase a whopping 37.7%, after taking down a modest 21.9% on average in the past 6 month: the highest Dealer award since January 2015.

In short: we called it dreadful, Stone McCarthy used “atrocious”, and indeed this auction marked a stunning reversal in demand for 10 Y paper. In fact, if demand for paper continues to evaporate at this rate, the US Treasury may have another problem on its hands: getting the Fed to start monetizing paper as soon as possible, i.e., QE4.

Why JPM Now Thinks The S&P 500 Is Promptly Headed For 2,200

The S&P 500 is less than 50 points away from 2,200. That number is notable: in addition to that being Goldman’s year end price target – for 2017 that is – it also the combination of two important digits: 17 and 130, which are what JPM thinks are the PE and EPS bogeys that the market is currently aiming for. It is also why JPM’s trading desk commentary now expects that the S&P500 will hit 2,200 in short notice.

From JPM’s Intraday update:

Market update – more of the same for this market. The 17x/$130 argument continues to resonate (that combination of numbers points to 2200). It’s still very, very early in the CQ2 season but the indications so are more positive than negative (AA, Daimler, PEP, Samsung, SIMO, STX, WDC, etc) and that is helping investors look past the earnings recession and is bolstering confidence in a ~$130 number for next year. In terms of macro news, there wasn’t a lot out in the last 12-18 hours. On Fri stocks rallied b/c of low bond yields and this week they are extending those gains despite bond weakness (i.e. yields are higher). For the first time in a while there is genuine evidence of a rotation trade underway w/money moving out of safe-haven areas and into cyclical ones. Investors are hesitant to embrace this trend wholeheartedly given all the recent head fakes and ahead of a busy month of central bank meetings. However, while the BOE (7/14) and BOJ (7/29) are expected to ease, policy expectations in aggregate are prob. too dovish (the ECB and FOMC are likely pretty happy w/the post-Brexit market reaction and don’t have any incentive to hint at further easing right now) and thus the risk for rates is for them to move higher in the coming weeks (which should help further a further safety vs. cyclic …

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