{"id":190082,"date":"2023-05-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/?p=190082"},"modified":"2023-05-09T13:46:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:46:58","slug":"the-perfect-fed-excuse-for-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/the-perfect-fed-excuse-for-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Fed Excuse (For Cuts)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>TLDR:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If they did want to cut rates, the alibi to reverse Fed\u2019s policy may just have been published yesterday. Two highly anticipated publications highlighted mounting concerns that the three major regional bank collapses will lead to pullbacks in lending and drive down asset prices. How do you fight a credit crunch? You cut rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The twice-yearly financial stability report didn\u2019t mince words. Recent regional bank crises and resulting worries about the \u201ceconomic outlook, credit quality, and funding liquidity\u201d could lead \u201cbanks and other financial institutions to further contract the supply of credit to the economy\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quarterly Fed Senior Loan officer survey was equally surly. \u201cIn comparison to the largest banks, midsized and other banks more frequently cited concerns regarding their liquidity positions, deposit outflows and funding costs as reasons for tightening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"573\" height=\"291\" data-src=\"\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/Screenshot_2023_05_09_at_8_39_13_AM_235b2f582d.webp\" alt=\"Lending conditions\" class=\"wp-image-190086 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/Screenshot_2023_05_09_at_8_39_13_AM_235b2f582d.webp 573w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/Screenshot_2023_05_09_at_8_39_13_AM_235b2f582d-300x152.webp 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 573px; aspect-ratio: 573\/291;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re a small (or even medium) bank, your not-entirely-crazy anxiety is that almost anyone with a sizable Twitter following has the potential to ruin your business. The best thing you can do for customer loyalty is to offer better yields on savings accounts. People like high rates after years of getting a big fat zero on their deposits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that makes shareholders sad because it weighs on profit margins. So loan rates have to go up, too. Businesses don\u2019t like to pay higher prices so they borrow less. And the overall credit and investment cycle slows down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019d think in a competitive market &#8211; the US has literally thousands of banks, more than any other nation &#8211; the pressure to earn business is too strong to keep rates high. You\u2019d be surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Money center banks (Citi, JPMChase) are a visible presence in large metro areas but much of the US is banked by a few small lenders. Marissa, the local banker, often knows the borrower personally. If Hank is late on his loan payments, he knows the next school pick up could be awkward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Small businesses employ half of all American workers so these banks are a lifeline to a very important source of job creation, local construction etc. Central bankers understand that shutting off credit to the economy is like cutting off blood supply: it can\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-stocks-are-doing-well-today\">What stocks are doing well today?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This section is powered by Open AI connected to TOGGLE AI<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for all your feedback! This section is still paused but an enhanced version is on the way (we promise)! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-aggregated-leading-indicators\">Aggregated Leading Indicators!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/spx_aggregated_RESTRICTED_3_2310bb70f5-1-1100x733.webp\" alt=\"Aggregated Leading Indicators!\" class=\"wp-image-190085 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1100px; aspect-ratio: 1100\/733;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toggle.ai\/my-account\/subscription\">Subscribe to Pro here<\/a> to receive our pre-market Leading Indicator newsletter and access all Leading Indicators online!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something is moving! After squeeze-Friday the <strong>TLI<\/strong> is heading towards its threshold!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about the Leading Indicators in the <a href=\"https:\/\/toggle.ai\/investing\">Learn Center<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-upcoming-earnings-airbnb-reports-today\">Upcoming Earnings: Airbnb reports today<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/2023q1_beat_2_d1d00b96b2-1100x623.webp\" alt=\"Upcoming Earnings: Airbnb reports today\" class=\"wp-image-190084 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1100px; aspect-ratio: 1100\/623;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toggle.ai\/investing\">Click here to test how ABNB stock could perform after beating earnings expectations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discover how other companies could react post earnings with the help of TOGGLE&#8217;s WhatIF Earnings tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-asset-spotlight-momentum-in-walmart-stock\">Asset Spotlight: Momentum in Walmart stock<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>TOGGLE analyzed 5 similar occasions in the past where momentum in Walmart stock has been mostly positive and historically this led to a median increase in the stock price over the following 6M. <a href=\"https:\/\/toggle.ai\/article\/c09200f9-ee23-11ed-9463-0aef85c26dab\">Read full insight!<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/Walmart_history_3_e7b8588692-1100x565.webp\" alt=\"Momentum in Walmart stock\" class=\"wp-image-190083 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1100px; aspect-ratio: 1100\/565;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-general-interest-the-liars-amongst-us\">General Interest: The liars amongst us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t call her Elizabeth. Elizabeth is gone, and so are the black turtlenecks and the deep voice. These days, there\u2019s only Liz, mother of two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Elizabeth Holmes prepares to go to prison, she\u2019s embarking in a PR campaign to rehabilitate her public image &#8211; and she has adopted a new persona: devoted mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goals of this campaign are not stated but neither hard to infer: shorten her sentence. Critics already pointed out that she conceived her first child as a measure to stall her criminal proceedings. So this is just another step in the process, according to her many detractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The puff piece was received with &#8211; shall we say &#8211; mixed reviews globally. One twitter user asked if <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexisohanian\/status\/1655613291769544704\">Thanos<\/a> would be the next to ask the NYT for a rehabilitation profile. Others pointed out that the NYT is the reputational laundromat for failed business types. Cue last year\u2019s piece about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/14\/technology\/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-crypto-bankruptcy.html\">SBF<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something interesting emerges towards the end of the piece. Hated as she may be, Elizabeth Holmes has not lost the ability to charm when you meet her in person. Quoting the end of the NYT piece:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Ms. Holmes is unlike anyone I\u2019ve ever met \u2014 modest but mesmerizing. If you are in her presence, it is impossible not to believe her, not to be taken with her and be taken in by her<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This reminds of Jobs\u2019 reality distortion field, of Elon Musk pathological liar accusations (like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zhr6fHmCJ6k\">this<\/a> LOL) and of Markus Braun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/8cc465f1-87e8-4e3a-a857-b04173bdce21\">denials<\/a> of wrongdoing in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It shows how certain personality traits &#8211; like narcissism &#8211; thrive in the business world and are indifferent to being exposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full NYT piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/07\/business\/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-interview.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally Posted May 9, 2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/toggle.ai\/daily-market-brief\/daily-brief-perfect-fed-excuse\">The perfect Fed excuse (for 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