The U.S. Isn’t "Decoupling"

09/23/15 07:50AM EDT

CLIENT TALKING POINTS

CHINA

We have no idea how anyone can trust their numbers, but even the ones they report are slowing – PMI 47.0 SEP vs. 47.3 AUG (lowest level since 2009). The Shanghai Composite remains in crash mode -2.2% overnight, -40% since APR.

DRAGHI

It’s central-planning hope day for European Equities as ECB President Mario Draghi testifies to the overlords. The DAX is bouncing +1.2%, but that’s after a nasty crash day yesterday (inclusive of the bounce, DAX -22% since April) and SEP PMI slows (again) to 52.5 from 53.5.

SECTORS

Don’t forget that begging for Draghi to devalue is deflationary (Down Euro --> Up Dollar --> Down Commodities and related sectors). Energy (XLE) is down -20.7% year-to-date and Basic Materials (XLB) is down -15.1% year-to-date – easy calls to have stayed with. We reiterate the SELL call on Industrial demand & pricing (XLI -11% year-to-date).

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TOP LONG IDEAS

MCD

MCD

McDonald’s remains one of our Restaurant teams Best Ideas on the LONG side.  We continue to believe that 3Q15 will be the inflection point for the company’s turnaround and that we are going to be looking at a much different company 1-3 years from now.

Urgency has been instilled from the top down by new CEO Steve Easterbrook. He wants more speed and is encouraging people to get things done faster. The food and experience provided to the customer will greatly improve over the coming months as “Experience the Future” is implemented across the system. It won’t be instantaneous though, as MCD has a lot of work to do around changing the perception to bring back customers it may have lost.

PENN

PENN

Penn National Gaming continues to be our favorite Regional Gaming stock.

Regional numbers for August have come in soft, but we predicted the August weakness. September revenues should rebound and serve as a catalyst for the stock going into Q3 earnings. On the research side we have not altered our views of PENN’s long term growth story. We continue to see more upside from current price levels. 

TLT

TLT

Slower (and Lower) For Longer remains our non-consensus call. It's nice to see that the Fed is finally starting to see what the #GrowthSlowing late-cycle data does.

  1. GROWTH: is #LateCycle and will be slower (again) in Q3 than it was in Q2
  2. INFLATION: misreported, yes – in the area code of the Fed’s 2% “target”, no

Our estimate for Y/Y% GDP for Q3 is a range of 0.1% to 1.5%. Even the Q/Q SAAR # that consensus hangs on will be comping against a 3.7% Q/Q SAAR GDP print (second revision). Good luck positioning for a rate hike. Prepare for the fade…. AGAIN.

Asset Allocation

CASH 70% US EQUITIES 0%
INTL EQUITIES 0% COMMODITIES 6%
FIXED INCOME 24% INTL CURRENCIES 0%

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