The Daily Shot Brief – November 16th, 2017

Greetings,

 

The United States: The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model forecast for Q4 GDP growth is 3.2%.

Source: @AtlantaFed; Read full article

This time it’s consistent with the NY Fed’s Nowcast model.

Source: NY Fed

Economists are forecasting 2.7%.

Source: Bloomberg

 

China: The PBoC is pumping more liquidity into the financial system. Beijing may see the latest spike in bond yields as being somewhat overdone.

Source: @markets, Cantor Fitzgerald Market Strategy Team

 

Credit: Many leveraged loans got repriced this year as the market is willing to get paid less for the same risk.

Source: @lcdnews; Read full article

 

Equity Markets: Despite the market selling off some, the “buy on dip” sentiment persists.

Source: @BloombergCA; Read full article

 

Energy Markets: There is some disagreement on how much demand exists for OPEC’s crude oil.

Source: @BloombergBriefs, @TheTerminal

 

Global Developments: This chart shows the increases in private credit around the world.

Source: Moody’s Investors Service

 


Food for Thought: Top 10 companies now, 50 years ago, and a century ago.

Source: @jsblokland

Edited by Joseph N Cohen


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