{"id":1392354,"date":"2023-08-08T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1392354"},"modified":"2023-08-08T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:00:00","slug":"quartet-of-carnage-crushes-stocks-bonds-bitcoin-black-gold-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/quartet-of-carnage-crushes-stocks-bonds-bitcoin-black-gold-bid\/1392354\/","title":{"rendered":"Quartet Of Carnage Crushes Stocks; Bonds, Bitcoin, &amp; Black Gold Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Quartet Of Carnage Crushes Stocks; Bonds, Bitcoin, &amp; Black Gold Bid<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Futures suffered <strong>a quartet of carnage<\/strong> into today&#8217;s US open included a <strong>disappointing night of economically-sensitive EPS prints<\/strong> (UPS, CBT, CE, IFF); <strong>Chinese trade data bombed<\/strong>, with exports showing the worst decline (-14.5% YoY in July) since Feb 2020, while imports too were crunched (-12.4%) &#8211; reflecting weak domestic demand, and iterating ongoing issues with lack of consumption and investment growth in China;<strong> Italy&#8217;s surprise windfall profits tax on banks<\/strong> has spooked EUR banks and broad index; and <strong>Moody&#8217;s cuts 10 US banks<\/strong> (including \u201csuper regionals\u201d Capital One, PNC Financial Services Group and Fifth Third Bancorp) on the increased cost of funding and office exposure.<\/p>\n<p>But apart from that, everything is awesome in Bidenomics-land&#8230; as &#8216;hope&#8217; leads (&#8216;soft&#8217; survey data rising as &#8216;hard&#8217; economic data slides)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfmD14B.jpg?itok=bPEioFbU\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>FedSpeak was &#8216;on message&#8217; &#8211; high(er) for long(er)<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>0820ET *HARKER: FED MAY BE AT THE POINT WHERE IT CAN HOLD RATES STEADY, <strong>FED WILL NEED TO HOLD RATES STEADY FOR A WHILE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>0855ET *FED&#8217;S BARKIN SAYS <strong>INFLATION REMAINS TOO HIGH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The result &#8211; all the US majors were in the red today. The equity indices were dumped at the US cash open then staged a recovery after Europe closed&#8230;Nasdaq was the biggest loser on the day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-08-08_13-00-06.jpg?itok=j1lON08o\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the gap-down open, a short-squeeze was engineered once again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm3325.jpg?itok=fGuHplbs\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AAPL managed to bounce back into the green today, ending the 5-day losing streak.<\/strong> We note that AAPL found support tosay at its 100DMA (having broken below its 50-DMA last week)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-08-08_12-23-09.jpg?itok=_NA695m3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>0-DTE traders faded the afternoon bounce in the market again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-08-08_12-02-55.jpg?itok=5Rm-I5L7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/spotgamma\"><em>Source: SpotGamma<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italian banks were clubbed like baby seals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfmA3B4.jpg?itok=Paiv2IH7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the US, Regional banks puked on the downgrades but bounced back after a weak open&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-08-08_12-07-13.jpg?itok=M7r_SOgH\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>VIX (and VVIX) pumped-and-dumped today, following a similar pattern to the last few days. VIX topped 18 intraday and VVIX remains &#8220;stressed&#8221; in the 90-100 range&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfmD311.jpg?itok=1vs4J2O9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Treasury bonds were bid across the curve but the long-end outperformed (as the curve bull-flattened)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm63F1.jpg?itok=z7yF1V36\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>10Y yields fell back below 4.00% intraday<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm3C6B.jpg?itok=g2FDSdHH\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The dollar rallied hard overnight &#8211; back up to June and July&#8217;s Payroll print levels &#8211; before fading back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm8BB0_0.jpg?itok=lPZJ_x_8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin ramped up towards $30,000 (again) today, after sitting around $29,000 for a week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm819.jpg?itok=_5PX6j6_\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another crazy day for crude with WTI dumping and pumping (back up to $83)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-08-08_11-46-02.jpg?itok=VfolKb8y\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gold fell back to Friday&#8217;s spike lows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-08-08_12-19-13.jpg?itok=9BjvzxID\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, it does have the feeling that we are close to a &#8216;sell the news&#8217; moment in the AI-bubble&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm22D5.jpg?itok=A1yFm2E_\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can history really repeat?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 08\/08\/2023 &#8211; 16:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/quartet-carnage-crushes-stocks-bonds-bitcoin-black-gold-bid\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/quartet-carnage-crushes-stocks-bonds-bitcoin-black-gold-bid<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quartet Of Carnage Crushes Stocks; Bonds, Bitcoin, &amp; Black Gold Bid Futures suffered a quartet of carnage into today&#8217;s US open included a disappointing night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-5Qdk","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}