Doubtless THE story of financial markets in 2023 has been the astonishing comeback of MegaTech. When rates went to zero during the pandemic, the explosion in Tech valuations made sense both in terms of mechanics and narrative. If discounted cash flows were governed by the 10-year rate, then companies like Apple became something like 100 year bounds. Look far enough into the future and it was hard to imagine how the likes of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and the like could fail. But then the F...
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Doubtless THE story of financial markets in 2023 has been the astonishing comeback of MegaTech. When rates went to zero during the pandemic, the explosion in Tech valuations made sense both in terms of mechanics and narrative. If discounted cash flows were governed by the 10-year rate, then companies like Apple became something like 100 year bounds. Look far enough into the future and it was hard to imagine how the likes of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and the like could fail. But then the F...
What do we make of this rally? Is it a 2005 Donovan McNabb pump fake? That is, a bear market rally? Or the beginning of a pivot to accommodative policy once more? On Wednesday Jerome Powell said, and didn't say, just enough to prolong a run up in risk assets into the weekly close. Why? In short, he didn't say anything that was incrementally hawkish. Crack the window open for those itching to go long, and in the short-run, they will pile in and duly vaporize short sellers. As ever, we re...
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Doubtless THE story of financial markets in 2023 has been the astonishing comeback of MegaTech. When rates went to zero during the pandemic, the explosion in Tech valuations made sense both in terms of mechanics and narrative. If discounted cash flows were governed by the 10-year rate, then companies like Apple became something like 100 year bounds. Look far enough into the future and it was hard to imagine how the likes of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and the like could fail. But then the F...