Nomura Warns Of Market "Reversal Risk" As FedSpeak Walks Back 'Bullard Bomb'
After last week’s market fireworks on the Fed's "hawkish surprise" and Jim Bullard's "you think that's hawkish, hold my beer" moment on Friday morning, which has many market participants screaming “policy error", Nomura's Charlie McElligott warnstraders now need to be ready for some potential “reversal of the rhetoric” this week-especially as we are looking at an astounding sixteen (!) Fed speakers on the calendar ahead......which is notable in that bothTreasury Yields and Equities are already s
Quad-Witch Quandary: How Will Friday's $2 Trillion Gamma Expiration Impact Markets
Last week, when discussing thebizarre summer doldrumsin the market which pushed the VIX to the lowest level since the onset of the covid pandemic, we said that this period of abnormal market quiet is likely to last until this Friday' quad-witch, when a massive amount of gamma and delta expire and are de-risked, in the process eliminating one of the natural downside stock buffers .So picking up on the topic of Friday' potentially market-moving opex, Goldman' in-house derivatives expert, Rocky Fis