Below is a chart and brief excerpt from today's Early Look written by Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough.

CHART OF THE DAY: #StrongDollar →  Deflationary. Period   - 2 10 2020 7 58 31 AM

While some of your competitors navel gaze at S&P Futures, in points, don’t forget how important the US Dollar is to both the Repo market and Chinese (US Dollar Denominated) Debt. A #StrongDollar is deflationary. Period.

If I have competitors who want to call it disinflation instead of deflation, that’s fine. The ROC (rate of change) in most headline #InflationAccelerating data points will likely have peaked here in JAN/FEB. Global Bond Yields (falling, faster, again) get that.

CHART OF THE DAY: #StrongDollar →  Deflationary. Period   - The Chinese Economy Is Espcially Sensitive To Global Dollar Liquidity Dynamics