Auszug aus "Breakfast with Dave" v. 23. Sept. 2010
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Since the S&P 500 hit its interim peak back on April 23rd, after a whippy bear market rally that looked just like the bungee jump we had in the opening months of 1930, the index has managed to pop up to around the levels we just saw two days ago (1,142) no fewer than four other times … May 12th, June 18th, August 9th and September 20th. And this time around, there were a whole range of non-confirmation signals and unfortunately for the bulls, it did not take much to get sentiment back to wildly optimistic levels which is a classic “contrary negative”. There has been far too much emphasis placed on what appears to be positive headline data that have contained poor details beneath the surface – avoiding a double-dip recession is not good enough to be overweight risk assets.
Risk assets thrive on growth and liquidity – right now we only have the latter and the bulk of it is sitting on corporate, bank and household balance sheets. The reason for this is because economic agents are cautious on the economic outlook while many investors, strategists and economists continue to project, at the very least, a “muddle through” scenario.
Now a “muddle through” scenario is just fine when the economy approaches full employment and inflation risks are becoming acute – we all look forward to the fabled “soft landing” in those episodes. But generally speaking, heading into the second year of a recovery, which according to the NBER [hatte Ende der Rezession für Sommer 2009 verkündet] is in fact the case, what is normal – and in the context of far less government support than we have today I – [is that] the economy is accelerating, not decelerating, and is doing so at a 5% clip – not slowing below 2%, which is now the case.
In addition, “muddle though” will mean that a 10% unemployment rate will either be a permanent feature of the landscape, with obvious political and social repercussions, and that deflation will be inevitable as a current 6% output gap either is sustained or widens at a time when every measure of underlying inflation is running below 1% at the current time.
You do not need to sift through the economic data points to realize that the largest economy in the world is fundamentally weak and susceptible to a relapse. Economists and strategists, for the most part, are downplaying where we are in the deleveraging cycle – that is literally amazing. There continues to be talk of housing stabilizing, which is impossible at the current time based on the prevailing massive amount of excess inventory. The fact that jobless claims have not gone back up over 500,000 is viewed as a good thing when at this point of the cycle we should already be south of 400,000. For a clear sign that the economy is at risk and that the government interventions have thus far failed, have a look at what is happening to President Obama’s economics team: First Romer, then Orszag, and now Summers … all gone, in this Agatha Christie remake of “And Then There Were None” (speculation is rife that Mr. Geithner is next).
The reality is that this is the weakest recovery ever in terms of the growth rate in real final sales and as it pertains to employment, housing, and organic personal income, there has not really been any recovery at all. Every single measure of consumer and small business sentiment is locked in recession terrain, but these do not go into the NBER determination process. In fact, the Investor’s Business Daily cites a survey of small business owners conduced by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which found that 78% of the respondents believe that the economy will “remain stagnant or get worse over the next year.” We may well have not been bullish enough at the March/09 lows in the equity market but what we questioned was the sustainability of the rally and if the truth be told, the major averages are no higher today than they were last November – 10 months of nothing but a saw-toothed pattern – and as things now stand, the facts are that the peak was turned in around the middle of April. You’ve been at least as well off clipping coupons.
The Fed just laid down the gauntlet and is preparing for a battle with the inevitable deflationary backdrop, while central bankers think they can merely start up a printing press, the reality is that the current crew of policymakers have only lived their lives fighting inflation and actually have no experience at all in combating deflation. This will be a long war and along the way, before we get the real policy-induced inflationary credit cycle that turns the secular bull market in bonds into a bear market, yields at the curve are going to drop to levels that will literally freak everyone out — perhaps everyone except for us, Van Hoisington, Doug Behnfield, Stephanie Pomboy and Gary Shilling...
Rosenberg sieht beim deflationären Niedergang der Zinserträge auf US-Longbonds noch weitere Luft nach unten. Kursziel wäre das Niveau am Ende der Großen Depression (Chart unten).
Steht US-Aktien Ähnliches bevor? Rosenberg deutet das im Text oben insofern an, als er die Rallye von März 2009 bis April 2010 mit der technischen DOW-Erholung von 1929 bis Sommer 1930 vergleicht. Damals folgte dieser "B-Welle" ein weiterer heftiger Abschwung ("C-Welle"), an deren Ende sich der DOW gezehntelt hatte.
Man käme demnach vom aktuellen Stand auf "DOW 1000" - eine gegenwärtig völlig utopisch anmutetende Horrorprognose. Man hörte sie bislang nur von Ultra-Doomsdayer Prechter, der sie mit Elliottwellen-Theorie ableitet. Rosenberg geht als gemäßigter Bär lediglich von einem Rücksetzer in den 900-Bereich im SP-500 aus - was auch mir "für's Erste" vernünftig erscheint.
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