Here's Why Investors Need to Understand Our #GlobalDivergences Call

06/04/18 01:43PM EDT

Here's Why Investors Need to Understand Our #GlobalDivergences Call - wsj

Here's the headline of a Wall Street Journal story this morning: Global Economic-Growth Story Fades, Dimming Market Optimism.

We've been warning about #GlobalDivergences for 5 months now, as China, Europe and Emerging Markets contend with an increasingly difficult economic backdrop.

The media is now aware of bubbling risk in Italy. This has brought attention back to the issues that have plagued Europe for the past decade: Deficits, Demographics and Debt. We call this "3D Risk" at Hedgeye.

In short, deficits, debts and demographics really matter when growth is slowing - setting in motion a self-perpetuating feedback loop that exacerbates these secular realities. As CEO Keith McCullough wrote recently:

"When do secular (demographics, debts, deficits) and political issues really matter to macro markets? A: when cyclical growth is slowing. That’s not new this morning. Neither is the basic reality that market risks happen slowly sometimes, then all at once."

Here's a key chart. As you can see, heading into 2Q 2018, global growth will be bumping against seriously tough comps. What's this mean? The black bars in the chart below show the year-over-year average 2-year historical growth rates against which 1Q 2018 to 4Q 2018 economic growth will have to exceed to realize any growth. Basically, the steeper those black bars the harder it is for the global economy to grow.

In other words, after a phenomenal, multi-quarter acceleration for the global economy the road ahead looks increasingly difficult. 

And another thing...

It's important to note that no matter how hard investors might try to ignore it, this challenging outlook for global growth is not changing. The bounce in European equities today is a prime example of this. Here's McCullough on today's edition of The Macro Show discussing our call on #EuropeSlowing:

"Across Europe, it's an important day to be watching the bounce. Some are saying Italian and European risk is overdone. No. Europe has been a terrible place to have your money."

Here's Why Investors Need to Understand Our #GlobalDivergences Call - Chart of the Day

Before You Go...

If you haven't watched our 43-minute webinar (hosted by CEO Keith McCullough), we highly suggest you do. In it, McCullough explains our global growth outlook and what Wall Street's much-touted "synchronized global recovery" narrative missed heading into 2018.

https://youtu.be/2NvNGAIvcb0

Here's Why Investors Need to Understand Our #GlobalDivergences Call - etf pro

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