{"id":222070,"date":"2025-04-14T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/?p=222070"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:11:24","slug":"foreigners-have-been-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/foreigners-have-been-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners Have Been Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For obvious reasons, foreign citizens are not allowed to participate in US elections.&nbsp; But they can and do participate in our financial markets.&nbsp; Last week, they resoundingly voted \u201cno\u201d about recent policy developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the pressure has thankfully eased this morning, we saw an odd market occurrence.&nbsp; Treasury yields rose while the dollar fell against several important currencies.&nbsp; Normally, when yields rise in a country, we see its currency strengthen.&nbsp; The rationale is that passive investors can earn more by holding assets denominated in that currency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This relationship is hardly etched in stone, and of course subject to daily fluctuations, but as a broad rule it works fairly well.&nbsp; The exception occurs when there is a credit crisis or some other event that causes global investors to flee from a country\u2019s debt.&nbsp; In that situation we see yields rise abruptly and the currency sell off sharply at the same time.&nbsp; That is what we saw in US fixed income last week.&nbsp; Note the movement that we have seen since last Monday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-6-day-chart-2-year-white-right-scale-10-year-blue-right-30-year-red-right-ust-yields-dxy-purple-left-scale\"><strong><em>6-Day Chart: 2-Year (white, right scale), 10-Year (blue, right), 30-Year (red, right) UST Yields, DXY (purple, left scale)<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"584\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Picture3-4-1100x584.png\" alt=\"6-Day Chart: 2-Year (white, right scale), 10-Year (blue, right), 30-Year (red, right) UST Yields, DXY (purple, left scale)\" class=\"wp-image-222074 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Picture3-4-1100x584.png 1100w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Picture3-4-700x371.png 700w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Picture3-4-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Picture3-4-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Picture3-4.png 1242w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" 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pricing relatively safe assets, like 2-year notes or currencies, it tends to have a difficult time with riskier assets, like stocks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some jitters around the recent auctions were to be expected, but those jitters metastasized into something worse.&nbsp; One notable exception to the general trend of stronger currencies against the USD was the Chinese Yuan, which hit a record low on Wednesday.&nbsp; That led to concerns that the Chinese might boycott one of the auctions, which also led to worries that there were major issues concerning the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/explainers\/what-are-basis-trades?sref=UQoV8r0O\">basis trade<\/a>\u201d.&nbsp; In theory this should be a relatively risk-free trade, where investors attempt to arbitrage small differences between futures on Treasuries and the actual bonds.&nbsp; The concern was that because this trade can be leveraged 20X, or potentially 50X, some key players in the bond market could have been wiped out by the volatility.&nbsp; (For those with long memories or a sense of financial history, this was reminiscent of the Long Term Capital Management blowup in 1997.)&nbsp; The President\u2019s comments while pausing most tariffs for 90 days referred to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5243337-trump-tariffs-bond-market\/\">\u201cyippy\u201d<\/a> bond markets.&nbsp; Stocks relished the changing tariff tack, but bonds seemed unimpressed, and the dollar plunged subsequently.&nbsp; With<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/turbulence-parachutes-and-sentiment\/\">Last week we noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Movements in US Treasuries and the dollar are telling us that international investors are concerned.&nbsp; At one point this morning we saw 10-year yields rise by as much as 16 basis points and the Euro rise by about 2 cents versus the dollar.&nbsp; Those trends abated at about 11am EDT, implying that European investors were actively selling US fixed income and stopped when it was time to go home for the weekend.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately for US bonds and stocks, European bond investors did not pick up today where they left off Friday.&nbsp; Yields are generally lower, and DXY is only down slightly.&nbsp; Perhaps some relative normalcy is returning to the global marketplace.&nbsp; But I\u2019ll leave you with some longer-term perspective about the moves that we have been seeing recently.&nbsp; Yields approached but did not come particularly close to their highs of January, though the dollar index is at a multi-month low.&nbsp; DXY is now flirting with a post-2022 low.&nbsp; As we also noted on Friday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>One could certainly assert that the weaker USD should be a boon for US equities.&nbsp; The leading US companies are multinationals, with revenues in a wide range of currencies.&nbsp; A weaker dollar means that those foreign revenues are worth more when translated into USD.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All things being equal, the weaker dollar can be a tailwind for multinational stocks.&nbsp; The question is whether that tailwind will be sufficient to offset a potential tide out of US assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-6-month-chart-2-year-white-right-scale-10-year-blue-right-30-year-red-right-ust-yields-dxy-purple-left-scale\"><strong><em>6-Month Chart: 2-Year (white, right scale), 10-Year (blue, right), 30-Year (red, right) UST Yields, DXY (purple, left scale)<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"584\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Picture2-6-1100x584.png\" alt=\"6-Month Chart: 2-Year (white, right scale), 10-Year (blue, right), 30-Year (red, right) UST Yields, DXY (purple, left scale)\" class=\"wp-image-222073 lazyload\" 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