DAS WICHTIGSTE FED-EVENT DES JAHRES FINDET MORGEN STATT
Kevin Warsh hält seine erste Rede in Jackson Hole als Fed-Vorsitzender.
Jackson Hole ist das größte jährliche Treffen der Fed zur Geldpolitik. Die Märkte warten nicht auf die nächste FOMC-Sitzung. Sie handeln nach der Tonalität dieser einen Rede.
🇴🇲🇮🇷 Endlich gelangt wieder mehr Öl durch die Straße von Hormus.
Mittlerweile passieren etwa 6 bis 8 Millionen Barrel pro Tag die Engstelle – immer noch ungefähr die Hälfte der Menge, die sich vor dem Iran-Krieg bewegt hat.
Und Golf-Staaten werden kreativ, um noch mehr zu transportieren. Einige Tanker bringen das Öl nur knapp außerhalb des Persischen Golfs in Position und übertragen es dann auf andere Schiffe, die nicht selbst das Risiko eingehen wollen, durch Hormus zu fahren.
Das hilft Saudi-Arabien, Irak, den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten, Katar und Kuwait, mehr Öl zu bewegen, während Irans eigene Exporte weiterhin durch die USA blockiert sind.
Und weil nun mehr Fässer herauskommen, erhalten auch die Ölpreise endlich etwas Entlastung.
Hormus bleibt gefährlich, aber zumindest bewegt sich der Ölverkehr in die richtige Richtung.
🇺🇸 Americans rated the next six months a 68.2... The Conference Board treats anything under 80 as a recession warning, and August just went well below it.
The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index slipped to 89.4 in August, the weakest since January and a miss versus the 90.2 economists wanted, 2 months down in a row.
Every piece of that future gauge got worse: * Business outlook: net −6.3% * Labor-market outlook: net −11.5% * Income expectations: still positive at +3.8%, but down 3.1 points
The Present Situation Index also jumped 6.8 points to 121.2, the first gain in four months, highest since May.
More consumers called jobs “plentiful” (27.0%, up from 24.4%), and fewer said jobs are “hard to get” (19.5%, down from 21.7%). The jobs differential rose to +7.5%.
That is the disconnect.
The labor market still feels intact enough in August, but the forward view does not.
Write-in answers explain why: Prices, gas, groceries, trade, jobs, war and conflict. Inflation expectations ticked up to 5.8% from 5.6%, and people can hold a job and still feel the ground moving.
Consumer spending is the engine of the U.S. economy... But confidence usually cracks before the register does.
First people delay the big purchases; car, the trip, the new couch. Then retail softens, then businesses cut hours, then hiring slows, which is the thing households are already afraid of.
Right now the data is saying the present is holding, and the future is not. If that gap stays this wide, things will continue going downhill.
🇺🇲🇮🇷 Trump is HOPING economic sanctions on Iran will divert voters’ attention away from the conflict ahead of the midterms...
Talks have failed; bombings have lost their effectiveness; U.S. munitions supplies are depleted.
Now the White House is eyeing a long-term campaign of economic pressure to FORCE Iran to negotiate.
But that could it all be a bluff? Trump has demonstrated hesitancy in the past in openly opposing the likes of Russia, China, and North Korea.
Tehran’s allies could still keep its economy afloat if they don’t buy the American bluster, and continue doing business as usual.
Trump would need to punish those nations if he wants to gain control of the narrative that economic hardship will make Iran take a seat at the negotiating table.
It all comes down to whether or not those threats are backed up by real, devastating consequences...
JACKSON HOLE COULD BE THE BIGGEST EVENT FOR CRYPTO THIS WEEK.
Tomorrow, Kevin Warsh will deliver his first speech there as Fed Chair.
New Fed chairs use the Jackson Hole stage to set the tone for what comes next, and that alone moves markets. In 2025, Powell sounded dovish, and crypto pumped hard that same day.
Why it matters:
A hawkish tone means rate hike fears, and we dump. A dovish tone means rate cut hopes, and we pump.
This year's theme is financial innovation, so Warsh is expected to talk about stablecoins and crypto directly. That makes this the first Jackson Hole that could move crypto on policy alone.
All eyes on tomorrow as Warsh's speech sets the market tone heading into September.
Der Altcoin-Markt hat in der vergangenen Woche um 23% zugelegt und damit die stärkste wöchentliche Bewegung seit Monaten verzeichnet.
Er prallte von der 1000-Tage-Unterstützung ab und brach über die absteigende Trendlinie aus.
Aber: Alts sind immer noch eng mit Bitcoin gekoppelt.
BTC.D bleibt über 60%, was Bitcoin und Coins mit hoher Marktkapitalisierung begünstigt. Eine echte Altsaison erfordert wahrscheinlich, dass BTC.D unter 58% fällt.
Die Struktur verbessert sich, aber die Rotation ist noch nicht bestätigt.