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A number of Black Swan events will make the first-quarter earnings season even more unpredictable.
Japan's earthquake and nuclear disaster has shuttered factories, choked off demand and disrupted supply chains at major companies. Oil prices have soared as conflicts erupted across the Arab world, and will hit profits for consumer and industrial names.
These Black Swan events—which, like the bird itself, by definition are very rare and usually have large consequences—have added elements of uncertainty beyond the usual unknowns facing large corporations. A number of companies have already cut earnings estimates for the first quarter, including oil services giant Halliburton and software maker Adobe , and they won't be the last.
"We would be surprised if there were not several negative pre-releases on margins and EPS in the first week of April," strategists at Morgan Stanley wrote in recent commentary. "Corporations now have several excuses that seem to resonate on Wall Street, from bad weather in January to the Middle East to the Japanese earthquake impacting the supply chain."
The dominant view is Japan's crises and the turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa will only hit earnings for a couple of quarters.
First-quarter profits are expected to rise 13.2 percent from a year ago, according to Thomson Reuters data, with estimates unchanged in recent weeks.
But the situations in Japan and the Middle East remain unresolved and present the possibility of more surprises.
Oil is the biggest wild card. A number of sectors could be hurt by the spike in oil prices, which may persist as the conflict in Libya drags on and unrest roils other countries in the region.
"What we're worried about is what if oil were to surge to a new record level. That we would really start getting concerned about," said Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief U.S. equity strategist David Bianco.
Brent crude oil prices hit a 2 1/2 year high on Friday at $119.79 a barrel, a day after closing out the first quarter with a gain of more than $22.
Morgan Stanley expects warnings in the industrial, technology and consumer sectors. The S&P consumer discretionary sector has seen first-quarter estimates fall 1.2 percent in the last 30 days, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine data.
Tech companies like mobile phone giant Nokia and Adobe have warned of supply problems stemming from Japan, and airlines have been hit by rising oil prices.
Adobe cut its March-May revenue forecast by $50 million due to the hit from Japan, and there are a number of S&P companies that derive a majority of their revenue from Asia that could also be hit.
A Boon For Some Energy Names
On the whole, energy companies are expected to benefit in the first quarter from the sharp rise in oil.
"The numbers are going to most certainly beat across the board pretty strongly, particularly the Exxon Mobils , Chevrons , Conocos , and working the way down to Hess and Occidental ," said John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital LLC in New York.
Analysts over the last month have revised up their earnings estimates for the energy sector, StarMine data showed.
In the last 30 days, earnings estimates for the energy sector are up 3.9 percent, according to StarMine. Energy companies make up 12.7 percent of the S&P 500.
But it's not high times for everyone. The Thomson Reuters StarMine SmartEstimates for Halliburton suggests it is likely to fall short of estimates. The SmartEstimate, which looks at the most accurate analysts, is 3.4 percent below consensus estimates.
"For the first quarter our estimates came down by about 9 cents for Halliburton and 7 cents or so for Baker Hughes due to the turmoil," said Craig Barney, senior vice president at money management firm M.D. Sass in New York.
Barney said the first-quarter hit to earnings will dampen results for the year but the longer-term outlook is good. M.D. Sass's estimates are about 5 percent above consensus for both of these oil services companies for 2012 and 2013.
On the other end of the spectrum are financials, where the aggregate earnings estimate has been revised down 7 percent over the same 30-day period.
American International Group is having the biggest impact on downward revisions in the financial sector. Other significant financial firms dragging the sector down are Morgan Stanley , Goldman Sachs and Citigroup .
While the financial sector will take hits as a result of Japan's nuclear crisis, the sector's earnings outlook was already poor.
Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings this week said it expected losses related to Japan's March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami. It follows warnings by others in the insurance industry this month, including one from AIG.
But for some, there are benefits from a crisis. Insurer Aflac , which derives 76 percent of its sales from Japan, said two weeks ago that it expects its earnings to benefit from the recent rise in the yen.
Die Staatsquote, also der Anteil der Staatsausgaben an der Wirtschaftsleistung, müsse mindestens wieder auf das Niveau vor der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise zurückgeführt werden, fordert Chefvolkswirt der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB), Jürgen Stark, in einem Gastbeitrag für das "Handelsblatt". Die Staatsquote war im Zuge der Krise von 43,5 Prozent im Jahr 2007 auf 47,5 Prozent 2009 gestiegen
"Deutschland steht in den kommenden Jahren vor großen finanzpolitischen Entscheidungen", schreibt Stark in seinem Beitrag. "Der Schwerpunkt bei der strukturellen Anpassung sollte auf der Ausgabenseite liegen." Ein besonderes Augenmerk müsse die Regierung auf unproduktive Ausgabenkategorien wie den öffentlichen Konsum und Subventionen richten.
http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/...ben/4019396.html
April 4, 2011, 1:56 a.m. EDT
Asia watching Fed talk on QE2
By V. Phani Kumar, MarketWatch
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Asian stocks and currencies have so far reacted rather coolly to the series of recent hawkish comments by Federal Reserve officials, but investors are sitting up to gauge the potential impact from a less accommodative U.S. monetary policy stance.
For nearly two years, record-low interest rates and flush liquidity in the U.S. have drawn investment dollars into global commodities and a range of higher-risk assets, including stocks and currencies in Asia.
With some Fed officials now speaking of the need for higher interest rates and a more restrictive policy, analysts are factoring in the possibility that the U.S. central bank’s $600 billion asset purchase program — often referred to as the second round of quantitative easing, or simply QE2 — will not be extended beyond its scheduled end in June.
“I can’t help but believe that if they turned that off, it would certainly have some impact on risk appetite in the marketplace,” said Todd Martin, Asia equity strategist at Societe Generale in Hong Kong.
Expectations that the Fed may keep its easy policy stance for a good while longer have been shaken somewhat after some central bank officials highlighted the need to tighten the policy amid rising inflationary pressures and signs of improvement in the U.S. jobs market.
Last week, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher told Fox Business Network in an interview that he opposed adding more liquidity to the U.S. economy and would vote against a third round of quantitative easing, if proposed by Fed officials.
The remarks echoed similar comments from St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, who said recently the U.S. monetary policy couldn’t stay loose indefinitely.
Also last week, Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota, a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, told The Wall Street Journal that rate hikes by a half-percentage point later this year were “certainly possible.”
Risk to commodities?
Meanwhile, expectations that the European Central Bank may raise interest rates as early as this month persist after ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet recently reiterated his concerns about rising inflation.
SocGen’s Martin said that once the Fed ends or reverses its policy bias, then the inflation trade — where investors actively invest in commodities and underlying stocks amid expectations that high global liquidity levels will boost demand and prices — faced the risk of potential unwinding.
“There is no question that there is more momentum in global economic growth in the last 12 months, so [the Fed’s quantitative easing] has been deemed as successful,” he said. “What have been the best performing asset classes and sectors would probably face some sort of pullback — and I’d hazard to say that some of that would be in the commodity space and underlying stocks.”
Copper and gold are among the commodities that are currently trading near their record highs, while Nymex crude-oil prices are pressing closer to the $110-a-barrel level, keeping alive worries over inflation.
Martin said that while SocGen’s clients have flagged the possible end of QE2 in June as a concern, he has yet to see such concerns translate into an actual sell-off of risk assets in the marketplace.
Anmerkung A.L.: David Rosenberg schrieb in seinem letzten noch gratis erhältlichen Newsletter, dass die Fed nur dann zu QE3 tendieren würde, wenn die US-Indizes um mindestens 15 % einbrechen.
After far outperforming global markets in 2010, Asian markets have been mixed so far this year, with gains in the region limited by high inflation and oil prices, as well as geopolitical worries in the Middle East and North Africa and concern over the impact of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami on Japan.
Most regional markets rose in Monday’s trading, aided by continued gains Friday on Wall Street. Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average .... (Nikkei schwächelte deutlich gegen Ende des Handelstages, Fukushima soll eingesargt werden - A.L.)
SocGen’s Martin, as well as other analysts, say they now expect the Fed to end its QE2 program — which has been criticized by policy makers in various parts of the world, including in Asia — by June. However, few people currently expect the Fed to withdraw liquidity or raise rates in a hurry.
“I think what [the markets hope for] is a gradual phasing out ... that will not have a sharp impact on financial markets,” said David Cohen, director for Asian forecasting at Action Economics in Singapore, adding that despite the hawkish statements from some of its voting members, the Fed won’t start raising rates until at least the end of this year.
Even if U.S. rates do rise late this year, the risk of a flight of capital from Asia, or for a slowdown in Asian economic growth rates, is remote and unlikely, Cohen said....
UBS strategists led by Niall MacLeod wrote in a note that if the Fed simply ended its QE2 program and maintained the size of its balance sheet, the action wouldn’t have much impact on Asian equities.
However, if the Fed made concerted efforts to reduce the size of its balance sheet, the impact would be more profound.
“Fears of this may hold Asian equities back, but we would see weakness around the initial rate hike as being a short-term event,” the UBS analysts said, adding that the generally positive liquidity environment in Asia will likely remain intact.
“Even if we get increases, we do not believe that the Fed will raise rates enough to move monetary conditions from loose to tight in Asia ex-Japan,” they said.
www.marketwatch.com/story/story/...5E62-11E0-AE42-00212804637C
die Stärke des BT. Einige Daytradingelemente können sicher nicht schaden sollte jedoch nicht im Vordergrund stehen, dafür gibt es entsprechende Threads.
Daytrading mit bärischer Ausrichtung, wie soll das laufen?
Ein Daytrader hat keine Grundausrichtung sondern handelt was sie/er sieht oder glaubt zu sehen.
Ich habe ein Derivatedepot. Müsste ich von dem Ertrag leben, so wäre es ein sehr bescheidenes Leben.
Von der langfristigen Kapitalanlage kann man dagegen sehr ordentlich leben. Es gibt Zeiten in denen wirken Hebel wunder und es gibt Zeiten in denen wirken Hebel tödlich.
Permanent
Produzentenpreise eilen in der Eurozone auf neue Hochs
Die Woche startet relativ unspektakulär mit der Veröffentlichung der Produzentenpreise
für die Eurozone, hat dann im Wochenverlauf aber noch eine Reihe von Höhepunkten
zu bieten. Bei den Erzeugerpreisen rechnen wir im Februar mit einem Plus von
0,7 % gg. Vm. Dies würde zu einem Anziehen der Jahresrate von 5,9 % auf 6,6 % und
damit zu einem zyklischen Hochstand führen. Auch die Konsumentenpreise in der
Währungsunion verzeichneten mit 2,6 % gg. Vj. im März einen neuen Spitzenwert im
aktuellen Zyklus. Das Emporschnellen der aktuellen Inflationsdaten, besonders aber
der Inflationserwartungen hat bei der EZB zu Sorgenfalten geführt. Dies dürfte am
Donnerstag dieser Woche in einer Zinserhöhung um 25 BP münden. Im Verlauf des
Jahres rechnen wir mit zwei weiteren Anhebungen des Refinanzierungssatzes um 25
BP auf dann 1,75 % zum Jahresende 2011. Auch bei den anderen Notenbanken
bleibt die Inflationsentwicklung ein heißes Thema. Nachdem die australische Notenbank
über die vergangnen Quartale den Leitzins bereits deutlich erhöht hat und die
jüngsten Arbeitsmarktdaten enttäuschten, rechnen wir auf der Sitzung in der Nacht
zum Dienstag mit einem unveränderten Leitzins von 4,75 %. In den USA steht am
gleichen Tag die Veröffentlichung des Protokolls der letzten Notenbanksitzung vom
15. März auf der Agenda. Das Protokoll dürfte genaueren Einblick in die Gedankengänge,
aber auch das Kräfteverhältnis im Entscheidungsgremium geben. Wir gehen
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