31 Dec 2015
Long US 10-year ‘Breakeven’ Inflation in 2016 – Goldman Sachs
FXStreet (Delhi) - Research Team at Goldman Sachs, suggests to stay long 10-year US break-even inflation (USGGBE10 Index), opened on 10 November 2015 at 1.60%, with an initial target of 2.0% and a stop on a close below 1.40%.
Key Quotes
“In the US, core CPI inflation is running just below 2%, and the more sticky service price components of the index are trending upwards, contributing more than 200bp to the headline reading. Yet, since the oil price crash in mid-2014, inflation expectations priced by the market have declined all the way out to 10-years. Currently, the inflation swap market prices that headline CPI will not reach 2% (the Fed’s inflation objective) until around 2020.”
“Moreover, the option market assigns a 40% probability to CPI averaging less than 1% over the next 5 years. We think this represents an opportunity to take the other side of too pessimistic expectations by being long 10-year TIPS and short nominal Treasury bonds. Our view is predicated on the idea that continued above-trend growth will lead to a further build-up of wage and price pressures. In our central outlook, the drag to headline inflation from the energy complex should gradually reverse in the coming months.”
Key Quotes
“In the US, core CPI inflation is running just below 2%, and the more sticky service price components of the index are trending upwards, contributing more than 200bp to the headline reading. Yet, since the oil price crash in mid-2014, inflation expectations priced by the market have declined all the way out to 10-years. Currently, the inflation swap market prices that headline CPI will not reach 2% (the Fed’s inflation objective) until around 2020.”
“Moreover, the option market assigns a 40% probability to CPI averaging less than 1% over the next 5 years. We think this represents an opportunity to take the other side of too pessimistic expectations by being long 10-year TIPS and short nominal Treasury bonds. Our view is predicated on the idea that continued above-trend growth will lead to a further build-up of wage and price pressures. In our central outlook, the drag to headline inflation from the energy complex should gradually reverse in the coming months.”