Why we need a crisis?Saxo Bank Capital Markets
Johannesburg, November 2012
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30 years of experience in a few lessons
Macro
Micro
Joseph Schumpeter
John Maynard Keynes
Denial
Protest
Mandate for change
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Printing money: the only game in town…
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Entitlement South Africa?
• ZAR will weaken (-5%)
• SARB will cut 100 bps
• Public Sector need to slow-down vis-a-vis investments
• Cohessive social policy of essence
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Europe is drowning in denial
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Social unrest: 101
Organic Growth
Leverage
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Everybody’s hero: Prez Reagan started the excess….Obama perfected it…
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US fiscal cliff will happen…but to what degree?
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Why does fiscal cliff matter to investor…the math:
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Game changer: US shale gas
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Demographics are not a drag compared to peers
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Eurozone indicators point towards more gloom
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Eurozone’s growth trajectory below bond yields…
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China’s next phase looks difficult
• Nov 8-18th Party Congress
• Q4 2013 – Meeting of the “third
plenary”
• Economic growth is slowing
• Labour force to begin shrinking
• Transition to domestic consumption
• Competitiveness is declining
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China slows down to 2008 levels
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…more evidence of slowdown
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Unsustainable wage pressure in China
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“Reality divergence” largest since Dot-com bubble
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Implied earnings growth of 12-16%…complete fantasy
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Earnings fear elevated but with good reason
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Market at ”fair value”?
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Global equities trade below historical average
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Saxo Bank favours small cap stocks
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Commodities will dance to the “tune of 2012”
• Commodities to repeat 12’ unless oil
spikes
• Oil is all about geopolitical risk
• Gold to reach 2,075 in 13’ on demand
• Crop prices to remain elevated
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Commodities likely to repeat 2012 unless…
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Crude oil in 13’ is all about geopolitical risk
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Gold driven by financial investment demand
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The impact of the highly improbable
It’s an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility.
It carries an extreme impact
In spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable
Source: New York Times, April 22, 2007: Nassim Taleb
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Prediction for Brent in December 2010 - Consensus
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Reality was very different
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This happened……
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Black Swans has formed history
A “man” walks on water - 32
X-ray - 1895
World War I - 1914
Penicilin - 1928
Data “machines” - 1941
The Big Bang Theory - 1965
Internet - 1983
Berlin Wall falls- 1989
Internet - 1983
Viagra - 1996
9-11- 2001
African Spring uprise - 2011
Tsunami Japan - 2011Source: Saxo Bank & Holberg Fondene
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Black Swans has formed financial markets
End of Gold standard 1971
Stock market crash 1987
Iraq invades Kuwait
Saving- and Loan crisis 1991-92
Russia default 1998
Dot.came Dot.gone - 2000
World Trade Centre 2001
Lehman Banrupcty 2008
SNB starts FX war -2011
Source: Saxo Bank & Holberg Fondene
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Macro Themes
Less is more Global imbalances will start reversing Unit Labor cost importance will fall. US will retake global growth lead from Asia Asia needs decade of ”transition” Energy prices will fall over next decade (Shale gas) Mandate for change will be coming via micro-economy
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Macro Predictions(12-24 months)
EURUSD in 1.0000 (Growth and capital access) USDJPY in 100 (Yield pick-up) Crude to fall to 50 $ a barrel (Shall gas and lack of growth) Gold in 3.000 (Printing even more money) AUDUSD in 0,8000 Global yields to hit rock bottom inside next six months Stocks to perform during Pretend-and-Extend but trailing during
”early expansion” but next decade will be >+50 pct return USDZAR +5% and SARB to cut by 100 bps in 2013