• Monitoring rates - Comments of October 10 2021

    The US equities markets bounced in the past two trading days, but seem to be stalling below the 50MA.



    The Money Flow figures point to a bounce continuation for this week, which carries a bullish positive bias as it is options expiration week.











    The story of last week was however rather negative for US equities markets: the 10Y rates bounced back to 1.61%, but worst: the rate differential between the 10Y Treasuries and US corporate bonds also jumped back up, reaching 1.17%





    As a consequence, the distance between the current equities pricing and the overvaluation price has dramatically shrunk.



    Conclusions:

    The earnings season is starting now and this week is options expiration week. I would hence believe that we will experience a bounce continuation.

    However, the most important for market valuations is the difference between the 10Y Treasuries yield and the 10Y corporate bonds yields. If this difference reaches 1.21%, the equities markets will start to become overvalued.

    Monitoring interest rates will be critical. I have the feeling that if rates increase on the secondary market, the Fed will increase its reverse repo operations, but will this be enough to also lower corporate bonds yields?