Saxo Market Call

Today's pod offers a brief market wrap on the big shift higher in US treasury yields and the impact on the US dollar, metals and crypto and whether yields can continue higher, noting the important event risks incoming next week. But the main event in today's episode is a long-form conversation with a great friend of the podcast, Peter Garnry of Gesda Capital. We covered the Nvidia situation, the company's importance for the AI trade, broader thoughts on the status of the AI space and where the value creation lies and much much more. Today's pod hosted by Saxo Global Head of Macro Strategy John J. Hardy.

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The Softbank story on writedowns linked to AI data center spending.

You can find Peter Garnry on LinkedIn.

The Gesda Capital research Substack.

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Today, a look at yesterday's strong and stunning US equity market comeback as we try to determine whether we should take this as a positive signal for the remainder of the year or retain a bit of caution at the two-way tantrums that have just been unleashed over the last three trading days. With Saxo Head of Commodity Strategy Ole Hansen we cover the outlook and drivers for the oil market, precious metals, copper and grains. Also, we look into the risks linked to the Nvidia scandal, the latest on macro and FX and much more. Today's host is Saxo Global Head of Macro Strategy John J. Hardy.

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An exchange on X between Arnaud Bertrand and others on the spygate scandal with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. It's important to ask the "why did this happen?" question in the Jensen Huang case if it the story wasn't leaked from US intelligence from mere ineptitude.  

Some people are wildly bullish on the space economy and AI, even predicting self assembly of tech in orbit from space debris.  

CNBC on the odd uptick in the long-term unemployed in the US - this deserves tracking and we need a deeper explanation.

WSJ on Elizabeth Warren's coming power as the head of the powerful US Senate Banking Committee - the power to initiate hearings and issue subpoenas, for example.

A long-form interview with Louis Vincent Gave, which includes the argument that Europe should embrace the deflation coming from China. Somehow I don't think that is how this is going to play out.

 

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Today, we assess the comeback in the AI trade on Friday and ongoing market divergences, while wondering how much Nvidia CEO Huang's affair with a Chinese intelligence operative might impact Nvidia besides Huang personally. Also, we note he market's rather dismissive reaction to a strong US job report Friday, perhaps as tomorrow's CPI number weighs more. This and much more on today's pod, which is hosted by Saxo Global Head of Macro Strategy John J. Hardy.

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Culper Research, a short selling outfit we have never come across before, is out declaring that Nvidia is a short on its "China Problem".

The big, post-mid-term elections President Trump interview with one of the more careful and thoughtful interviewers out there Ross Douthat. (BTW, Douthat wrote an incredible book that resonated with me called The Decadent Society. 

Michael Every on Macrovoices.com, slightly updated now that we are post-US mid-term elections, but riffing on many of the same things he always discusses, which are certainly worth keeping in frame.

Someone with very thoughtful comments on the Peter Principle with links to further reading - one for those of you in large organizations.

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Today, a look at yesterday's historic meltdown in US equities, which broadened out to the almost all sectors in addition to the ground zero of the AI trade. We look at new developments in intermarket dynamics on this move as well, especially in currencies as the US dollar finally came alive as a safe haven as in the days of yore. This and much more on post-election thoughts from the pod host, Global Head of Macro Strategy at Saxo Bank John J. Hardy.

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This is hilarious - all of the hyperbillionaires set to sing "We were always blue"? Warning - obvious deepfake, if only for entertainment purposes.

John's The FX Trader from today.

What might Trump be up to over the last two years of his presidency after the drubbing he got in the mid-terms? Let's hope he won't behave like this. 

Hedge fund manager Harris Kupperman on how to find outlier investment ideas.

Could ChatGPT have been decisive in this election? An intriguing possibility with profound implications for the politics if so!

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Today, we look at the remarkable US equity market session yesterday, as the market fears that the Democratic mid-term sweep will slow the pace of data centre buildouts, sending data center infrastructure and chip companies into a tailspin even as the broader market rallied steeply. How durable is this trade? Also, further thoughts on the implications of the US mid-terms, macro and FX developments and much more. Today's pod is hosted by Saxo Global Head of Macro Strategy John J. Hardy.

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The FT looks at the slate of candidates most likely to jostle to the front for a 2028 US Presidential Election run.

Lee Hepner breaks down the historic mid-term election, arguing what it was and what it wasn't while pulling out some interesting subplots and specific developments.

Michael Every says beware of drawing too many conclusions on the direction the Iran conflict may take from here based on the post mid-term election vibe shift in energy markets.

Brent Johnson takes the view that this election won't change the march of history towards... What exactly? A great American empire not democratic republic? Is that what we are supposed to infer from the ancient Rome timeline.

By the way, speaking of ancient Rome's march to empire, the Marius and Sulla episode on the great The Rest is History podcast is riveting stuff. 

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