Uneasy Feeling
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Why are markets adopting a cautious, risk‑off stance this morning?
So no opinion on tariffs from the Supreme Court, no military action against Iran so far, but markets are cautious. There's a rotation in stocks away from tech, there's a rush to precious metals for the moment. A peaceful and easy feeling, but that could all change, of course, numbers-wise, strong export growth from China, positive retail sales for the United States. And we'll look at yesterday's job vacancies for Australia as well. It's Thursday. It's the fifteenth of January twenty twenty six. It's the morning call from Nab. Good morning. Well, US equities are not performing well. The S P is down more than one percent, more than one and a half percent off the Nasdaq. The US dollar is down slightly, so is the Aussie to just below sixty six point eight US cents.
The yen is up half a percent. Bond yields are lower just about everywhere, down four basis points for ten year treasuries, down six for ten year guilt yields in the UK, and down three for much of the rest of Europe. Aussie ten years were four point seven. 1% yesterday, and that is pretty much where they are this morning. And oil is around 1.3% higher. Gold is up 0.4%, so another record high overnight. And silver up 4.5%, up 6.1% at one stage, creating another record there as well. And it's not just that, copper and tin also at new record highs. So a real risk-off sentiment, it seems. Ken Compton is with me this morning.
How is the rotation from big‑tech to small‑cap and precious metals affecting US equities?
I mean th the main moves overnight actually have been US shares, haven't they? There's this r rotation going on away from the big tech. So the mag Mag seven Bloomberg index is down one point eight percent, but the smaller end of town, the Russell two thousand, uh that's actually up. And actually I think it's this is like the ninth time this year that the Russell two thousand has outperformed the rest of the st the stock market.
Yeah, good morning, Phil. The ro rotation trade theme has cropped up at various points over the over the cycle of the pu the past couple of years and we seem to be in that in that mood again. I did see, you know, Bloomberg also noting that despite the S P five hundred headline number being being down a bit, um uh in terms of the actual individual movers, uh over three hundred individual names are actually up, so it does um does add a little bit of credence to more credence to the to the theory of rotation. Um and I mean Then looking at some of the individual sectors that have been leading the way, I mean, tech obviously is always at the forefront of the rotation trade. That was the sector with the biggest decline, and NASDAQ itself is down about one and a half.
But um yeah, uh if you sort of drill into the individual names a bit more, um, financials are also amongst uh you know uh amongst the softer names, and that was with um sort of US bank reporting continuing overnight. And for the most part, some of the headline names. numbers looked okay, but um as seems to be the case these days, people looked at some of the the the forecasts and the details and um sort of found a bit of reason for for disappointment there.
Yeah, well Wells Fargo missed their profit forecast, so they so understandably they're down five percent today, but Bank of America exceeded expectations and uh th they're down almost as much, just a little shy of uh five percent. But as you say, it's the it's perhaps it's the forward story more than anything.
Yeah, and even um, you know, Citigroup as well, a few headlines there noting uh sort of a eighty, ninety percent increase in in in fees, but still um yeah, sort of them down down on the day with their with expectations looking a bit looking a bit concerned and and BOA as well, the the focus there ended up being on being on expenses. So um difficult to um difficult to impress markets in these times with lofty valuations it would seem.
And so the rush to metals, I guess, you know, uh not even uh rush to bonds. I mean it's gold and silver.
Yeah, gold, silver, everything everything else it would seem. I mean obviously, you don't think the the the the risk off theme certainly suits uh the continued move into continued move into into precious metals, but obviously there's a much bigger underlying theme there at play, you know, whether you sort of call it the the de dollarization trade or or various other things, that the the longer running bid of central banks into gold has been a yeah, has has been a key part of that.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why are markets adopting a cautious, risk‑off stance this morning?
0:01–1:23
2
How is the rotation from big‑tech to small‑cap and precious metals affecting US equities?
1:23–3:49
3
What do the mixed US bank earnings (Wells Fargo, BofA, Citi) reveal about future profitability?
3:49–5:29
4
Why is China’s $1.2 trillion trade surplus and strong export growth reshaping global trade?
5:29–7:14
5
How are Australian job vacancy trends signalling labour‑market health for the RBA?
7:14–9:02
6
What do US retail‑sales surprise and core PPI data indicate for Q4 inflation outlook?
9:02–10:54
7
How are New Zealand’s modest job‑growth and building‑consent numbers influencing the RBNZ outlook?
10:54–12:25
8
What upcoming regional Fed surveys and UK GDP data could change the market narrative today?
12:25–13:11