CLIENT TALKING POINTS

RATES

The UST 10YR Yield has backed off @Hedgeye TREND resistance (again) -4 basis points to 2.36% with no immediate-term support to 2.03% now into the Fed meeting on June 17th – Slower-For-Longer (both U.S. and Global Growth) remains our call – U.S. Labor data is #LateCycle.


TRANSPORTS

We guess this time is “different” with the Transports not being a leading indicator for the cycle too? Leading losers from a Sector Style perspective yesterday, IYT was down -2.1% on the day and is now -4.9% month-over-month and down -8.7% year-to-date.

EQUITIES

Globally equities look worse than the Transports! And we know one of our competitors is saying “growth is back”, but seriously – month-over-month Global Equity moves = Russia -12%, Portugal -9%, Greece -8%, Germany -7%, Brazil -7%, Turkey -7%... we’ll stop there.

TOP LONG IDEAS

PENN

PENN

Penn National Gaming is a true growth story in regional gaming, finally, ripe with catalysts, same store and new unit growth, and accelerating cash flow.  We see stability in regional gaming revenues over the next several months providing some much needed earnings visibility.  PENN maintains the best new unit growth story in domestic gaming with the opening of the Plainridge casino in Massachusetts in June and the Jamul casino in Q2 2016. PENN has a proven track record as the best regional casino operator and recently proved its prowess at successfully opening racinos (casinos at racetracks) with estimate beating Dayton and Mahoning commencing slot operations last year.

ITB

ITB

The takeaway on Purchase Activity was mixed as demand declined -3.0% sequentially but accelerated from +13.1% to +13.9% on a year-over-year basis.  More broadly, and inclusive of the latest week, purchase demand in 2Q continues to reflect both sequential and year-over-year improvement with demand growth for the quarter currently tracking +13.6% QoQ and +12.8% YoY. No major callouts in the latest week as the larger trend towards ongoing improvement in purchase activity in 2Q remains intact. 

CLICK HERE to watch Housing Sector Head Josh Steiner gives a brief update on our call on ITB.

TLT

TLT

Considering we are already well passed an above average length expansion, and moving into the second half of 2015 growth and inflation comps (i.e. the base effects) become very difficult, growth is likely to continue to slow. We put the likelihood of a rate hike in 2015 as highly unlikely and continue to expect rates to move to make a series of lower-highs through the balance the year (bullish for EDV, TLT, and VNQ. When forward looking growth expectations are downwardly revised and the Fed kicks the can on rate hike expectations, rates and the dollar move lower. Gold has historically performed well in an environment of falling rates and a declining U.S. dollar and we don’t expect anything different this time around. Supporting our view, both gold (GLD) and treasuries (TLT, EDV) remain BULLISH on an intermediate-term TREND duration (3-months or more).   

Asset Allocation

CASH 46% US EQUITIES 4%
INTL EQUITIES 10% COMMODITIES 12%
FIXED INCOME 28% INTL CURRENCIES 0%

THREE FOR THE ROAD

TWEET OF THE DAY

Chinese CPI slows to 1.2% y/y (from 1.3%) as producer prices continue to #deflate -4.6% y/y

@KeithMcCullough

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Wilferd Peterson

STAT OF THE DAY

32 million people get summoned each year for jury service in U.S. state courts.

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