Monday, December 4, 2017

"An hypothesis about European stock performance"

David Goldman at the Asia Times:

Looks as though an error in the EUR/USD ‘fair value’ model has a significant relationship with DAX
The appreciation of EUR in excess of what the rate structure would predict can be understood as gauge of market expectations of eventual ECB tightening. I observe that the error in the “fair value” model relating EUR/USD to the rate structure appears to have a significant relationship with DAX.

EUR is rich to the rate structure.

euro forecast by US-German 10-yr spreak
Source: Bloomberg
The chart below separates the euro into two components: One predicted by the rates structure, and the model’s error.....MORE