With gold and silver surging once again, look at this major gold and silver bull catalyst unfolding, plus serious real world problems.
Gold And Real Yields
Ole Hansen, Head of Commodity Strategy at Saxo Bank: Gold looks somewhat cheap as US yields drop to a February low with 10-year real yields almost kissing -1% overnight.
Gold Looks Cheap As US 10-Year Real Yield Hits -1%!
New interview from legend Doug Casey discussing gold, silver and
global chaos! To listen click here or on the image below.
TRANSITORY INFLATION?
CRB Says, “No!” Closes At 6 Year High!
Peter Boockvar: In trying to figure out what is going on in markets, particularly the Treasury market whose action is feeding into so many others, and vice versa, here is a stab on maybe what the theme that is playing out. The sharp rise in rates thru March was discounting the hot inflation numbers that was then seen over the past few months along with another $2 Trillion of government spending. Yields got very overbought (went from .90% to 1.78% in 3 months) and then began a consolidation while inflation breakevens continued higher into mid May.
Commodities by the way pulled back yesterday but the CRB index on Friday closed at a 6 year high. Anyway, the 10 yr yield started to tease/break/bounce/break the 1.50% around June 9th, one week before the Citi Economic Surprise Index came off the highest since mid March. Then, on June 16th we heard the taper talk is talking and dots revealed a sooner than expected rate hike which led to a dramatic flattening of the curve. The 5 yr yield started the year at .36% vs .92% a few weeks ago.
GOLD BULL CATALYST: Expect Even More Deeply Negative Real Yields
So, I will argue that the further decline beginning mid June in yields is mostly a growth concern driven by the stagflationary situation that has enveloped the economy (both product supply and labor challenges) and seen in the data, as real yields have fallen from -.75% to -.99% as of yesterday. I’m sure too that there is a knee jerk belief that the inflation stats will moderate in response to that slower growth but maybe it would be the reverse that growth would improve if inflation calmed down. As you know, I remain of the belief that the rise in inflation will be sticky, the Fed will be crab walk its way to normalizing policy and real yields will only get deeper negative.
I also want to say this about the likely persistency of inflation. The practice of Just in Time inventory is dead. That means higher inventory levels, lower productivity, slower inventory turns, higher working capital needs, lower cash flows and most likely higher prices as a result. This article in the WSJ is a taste of this (no pun intended), https://www.wsj.com/articles/supermarkets-are-stockpiling-inventory-as-food-costs-rise-11625572980.
Serious Real World Problems
Here are some quotes from yesterday’s ISM pointing to slower economic growth because of the shortages of labor and product and the higher costs of both as a result.
“Some locations cannot open for business or have limited hours, as we cannot staff the restaurant to meet consumer demand.”
“Severe supply chain disruptions and inflation are continuing in the marketplace, in all sectors.” (Arts, Entertainment and Recreation)
“Covid continues to cause troubles for all of our deliveries, as well as short supply a lot of materials. Shortages of lumber, copper, and steel continue, which is driving up pricing and lead times.” (Construction)
“We continue to see cost increases, delayed shipments, pushed out lead times, and no clarity as to when predictive balance returns to this market.” (Retail)
“Labor market remains tight, and wages have risen at an unprecedented rate. We are expecting a long term effect on pricing of services.” (Transportation & Warehousing)
“The primary headwinds this month continue to be very expensive ocean freight rates, increasing business costs and increasing raw materials costs. The top line is not outrunning expenses.” (Wholesale Trade)
“Starting to see a lot of commodity price increases for chemicals, acidizing and cementing. This is driven by product cost increases stemming from low production from plants.” (Mining)
I Still Love Gold & Silver
As for investing thru this, I remain long oil/gas stocks, particularly those in Europe that remain well below pre Covid levels in addition to ag in the commodity space. I still love gold and silver and along with being a long term bear on the dollar and local currency EM bonds are attractive too with this theme as it’s the only place to get some yield. Yes, there are value pockets of opportunity in the US that I own but the returns in the coming decade will come from Asia and parts of Europe. Singapore (banks and reits), Vietnam, Japan, China (Macau focused casinos and travel), the UK (energy, financials, reits) and Greece (still a bet on Kyriakos Mitsotakis) to name a few lands of opportunities…
Insiders just invested another $56 Million in this 12 million ounce
Canadian gold company! TO FIND OUT WHICH ONE
CLICK HERE OR ON THE IMAGE BELOW.
With respect to the FOMC minutes today, they can be used to signal something new AFTER the meeting so don’t think they are really minutes. That said, you’ll hear some that want to taper soon and some later. I think the pressure is building by the data and I’d guess that the reduction in asset purchases will begin in September, either hinted at in the July meeting or in August in Jackson Hole.
The MBA said that the average 30 yr mortgage rate fell back by 5 bps to 3.15% but purchases and refi’s fell again w/o/w and y/o/y. Purchases were down by 1.1% w/o/w and 14% y/o/y. Refi’s were lower by 2.3% w/o/w and 8.1% y/o/y. We know what’s going on in housing so I don’t need to repeat it but watch out for the rental component in CPI next week as there is nothing transitory about housing inflation.
Also Released: Gold Price Bottoming, This Will Be A Huge Shock, Inflation, Plus A Look At Silver CLICK HERE.
Also Released: Gold Catching Fire As Greyerz says, “Gold Correction Is Finished!” Plus The Mother Of All Bubbles And A Look At Gold’s Breakout CLICK HERE.
***To listen to Egon von Greyerz discuss gold and major markets CLICK HERE OR ON THE IMAGE BELOW.
***To listen to this outstanding big picture discussion of the gold market and what surprises to expect in the back half of 2021 CLICK HERE OR ON THE IMAGE BELOW.
© 2021 by King World News®. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. However, linking directly to the articles is permitted and encouraged.
