Although the South Korean stock market triggered a circuit breaker, there are actually two pieces of good news today: one is that the probability of an interest rate hike in October has dropped again, and the other is that both long-term and short-term U.S. Treasury yields have fallen.
For a long time, besides the issues of aging themes and high valuations leading the market to start focusing on earnings expectations, the problem troubling the U.S. stock market has been the competition for liquidity among U.S. stocks, U.S. Treasuries, and corporate bonds.
Now, the decline in U.S. stocks will drive liquidity into U.S. Treasuries to ease the Treasury crisis, while gold, which is directly linked to interest rates, remains generally stable. Without a larger liquidity crisis, gold should maintain stability. Even if there is a short-term sudden liquidity shortage causing a drop, the support from central bank gold purchases keeps its safety high, making it a suitable low-risk bottom-fishing asset.
Tonight's PPI data will most likely continue the trend of yesterday's CPI. Even if it unexpectedly comes in lower than expected, the positive impact will probably only trigger a small rebound and cannot change the downward trend. After this decline, it will likely take the FOMC decision combined with easing U.S.-Iran tensions and other positive factors to gradually calm the market, so patience is still required. #South Korean stocks fell nearly 8% intraday, global tech stocks collectively under pressure
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