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Inflation

If we actually sell the news, the sell day will be on the 5th when opec confirm the production cut. Right now/tonight is the "buy the rumour" bit everyone else are doing and we already bought last week
 
Are you kidding? Not sure
The cracked open pipe is now emptied of the gas it was filled with .
Will probably never be useable used..ever
5000 tankers minimum to do round trip with US Qatar or Australia to replace this.And gas terminals too.
Germany and so europe is done and dusted.
Thank you USA.
We might get cheaper Mercs and BMWs, Audis und sauerkraut ?
 
Opec looking like cutting 1m barrels/day, oil up $3 in response.
many OPEC members were pushing out ( near ) maximum production so should be no surprise , maxxed out plant , breaks sooner , a slight reduction now beats a big disruption further down the line IMO

there are solutions but then the US would have to relax the suppression of oil trade elsewhere ( after all they brought chaos to several of them )
 
would Russia actually bother repairing it , the EU are reluctant to pay , seizing assets , looking to wean off Russian Energy AND obviously unable to protect the pipeline against hostile parties

however it might be a useful troll of EU energy policy ( remember the turbine repair delays NS 1 MIGHT have been back to 50% with enough working turbines )
 
but only ones made in 2021 and earlier ( or assembled in India )
 

Here's another saying leaks have stopped....

 
Here's another saying leaks have stopped....

the leaks have not stopped, the gas is not escaping anymore,
a bit like saying your tire is not pierced anymore since it is now flat and has no air escaping anymore
->because there is no gas anymore;
there has been no gas pushed in these for weeks, i was just the leftover in the pipes which bubbled out..now over..the pipes remain cracked open and destroyed
 

Posts like this make me desperately want to go and buy German/EU stocks.
 
Great chart from @LizAnnSonders (Chief Investment Strategist for Schwab) on Twitter

US inflation YoY comparisons are now crazy hard. Even +0.2% MoM every month is going to have CPI at 2% by mid '23. Anything less than that could be staring down a deflationary barrel.



Inflation swaps etc are pricing this in already.

Fed needs to back way off right now.
 
many OPEC members were pushing out ( near ) maximum production so should be no surprise , maxxed out plant , breaks sooner , a slight reduction now beats a big disruption further down the line IMO
I'm not personally making the claim but some would go a step further and question whether OPEC was ever really able to sustain it in the first place?

That is, has some present "production" really just been withdrawal from storage? If so then it has to end at some point.
 
RBA just did exactly that with 25 points rather than 50 and markets were NOT happy.

AUS isn't USA though, USD running is helping the yanks enormously. Fixed income's still priced something like 62 points, then 48, then 22 at the next 3 fed meetings.

Also worth thinking about how much monetary policy has NOT been coordinated with fiscal policy lately (I'm looking at you, united kingdom) and there's still things like strategic oil reserves to either continue emptying and/or then fill back up and so on. Not to mention how much of the U.S energy supply the europeans are trying to build the infrastructure to get right as we speak. That transfer of demand is going to effect domestic U.S prices significantly once the facilities to receive it actually come online.

Not saying you're wrong but there's a fair few more balls in the air other than rates at the moment.
 
RBA just did exactly that with 25 points rather than 50 and markets were NOT happy.
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markets sure seemed happy about it to me


Not saying you're wrong but there's a fair few more balls in the air other than rates at the moment.

I'm not really sure what you mean.

Mechanically, CPI is going to go down without something truly crazy happening to push monthly prints consistently into the 0.3-0.5% range. That's just a fact of how YoY comps work, look at the chart.

If something truly crazy happens, like oil gapping to $200-300, is raising rates really going to be the right reaction? They will be knifing the economy into a crisis. I just don't see it.
 
The Nordstream 2 pipe was filled with gas to keep it pressurised, but it was not flowing anywhere. ( see Reuters )
The Russians had already turned off supplies flowing via Nordstream 1 ( see BBC News. )
To make matters a little more difficult, the charter rates for bulk LNG ships has gone ballsistic.
From Zero hedge


So if I were a buyer of LNG, I would be looking for the supplier that is closest to me geographicslly, espeislly if every day I charter costs me 400k.
Mick
 
Look at how the aud has moved. But were you specifically talking year on year?

Reference tipping into recession or what have you, Yellen & Powell have both made endless comments about doing "whatever it takes" to get things back to 2%. But I was talking a longer timeline than just year on year, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see them get below the 2% target and then say something along the lines of keeping it a bit "too low" to get things back closer to long term trend.

But what I was getting at is that we still have the pivot of european energy demand over to U.S suppliers yet to occur (facilities not finished), china lockdowns pummeling demand there, and the U.S strategic reserve being depleted. Any one of these three factors is a pretty major player in inflation and all three ARE going to reverse at one point or another. Whether this will be soon enough to effect YoY numbers remains to be seen but all three WILL occur.

So yeah, there's three pretty big factors other than just the U.S demand side to consider here, and I haven't even mentioned seasonality...
 
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