Morning brief — Sep 17: The Fed hikes while the Bank of England stops dumping bonds — long UK gilts vs short US Treasuries
The Fed just raised US rates and promised more, but the Bank of England is doing the opposite — it held rates steady and stopped selling long-term UK government bonds. Also in focus: AI & automation, Carry, Commodities.
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- The Fed hikes while the Bank of England stops dumping bonds — long UK gilts vs short US TreasuriesLONG · TLT
The Fed just raised US rates and promised more, but the Bank of England is doing the opposite — it held rates steady and stopped selling long-term UK government bonds. That means long-term UK bonds get a supply break while US bonds keep facing pressure.
- Japan is about to hike rates to a 31-year high while the Fed finishes its job — bet on the yen snapping backSHORT · FXY, USDJPY
Japan's central bank is about to push interest rates to their highest level in 31 years, while the US Federal Reserve just raised rates but its rate-increase cycle is largely priced in. The gap between US and Japanese borrowing costs, which has kept the yen extremely cheap, is starting to narrow.
- Dow surges as the Fed earns back credibility — buy the post-hike reboundLONG · DIA, SPY
The day after the Fed's first rate hike in three years spooked stocks, the market flipped: the Dow surged and bonds gained as investors decided the Fed is serious about fighting inflation. A credible central bank, not a feared one, tends to calm markets.
- A $24.3B Saudi F-35 deal lands as the Iran 'Trump always backs down' bet breaks — build a multi-week position in defense primesLONG · ITA, LMT, NOC, RTX
The US just approved a huge $24.3 billion sale of F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia, while the Iran conflict keeps pushing oil above $100 and Wall Street's usual 'Trump will calm things down' playbook has stopped working. Together these point to a lasting, well-funded defense boom.
- CoreWeave needs billions while borrowing costs sit near 5% — short the cash-hungry AI builderSHORT · CRWV
CoreWeave, an AI data-center company that burns cash building infrastructure, just kicked off a big new fundraising round including a $3 billion bond-style offering. Meanwhile, government borrowing costs have climbed to around 5%, their highest in nearly two decades, making that fundraising far more expensive.
- Mortgage rates stuck at 7% because yields and AI borrowing won't quit — short the homebuildersSHORT · DHI, LEN, XHB
Mortgage rates are stuck around 7%, and a mortgage-market executive says the culprits are high Treasury yields and heavy borrowing by big tech companies building data centers — not anything the Fed can quickly fix. With rates staying high, housing demand stays frozen.
- Nvidia says chip sales will double next year and AMD is up 7% — ride the third day of the semiconductor reboundLONG · AMD, AVGO, NVDA
Nvidia just told the market it expects its chip sales to double in 2027, and chip stocks like AMD and Broadcom have now risen three days in a row even as investors worry about interest rates. The broader market is also bouncing back after the Fed's rate hike, giving the chip rally room to run.
- Tempus AI rips 30% on a Morgan Stanley upgrade while everything else frets about the Fed — ride the momentumLONG · TEM
Tempus AI, a health-data company, has jumped 30% this week after Morgan Stanley raised its revenue forecast. In a market dominated by scary Fed headlines, this is a stock rallying on its own good news.
- Memory prices are up 500% while AI hype stocks draw billion-dollar bets against them — rotate into MicronLONG · MU, NVDA, PLTR
Memory chips like the ones Micron makes have seen their prices skyrocket more than 500%, and Micron just jumped 5% on the news. Meanwhile, big investors like Michael Burry are betting against the pricier, hype-driven AI stocks while borrowing costs sit at 19-year highs.
- Amazon's $2.4B generator order shows the AI buildout needs power everywhere — buy the equipment makers feeding itLONG · CAT, CMI, GNRC
Amazon just signed a $2.4 billion deal to buy backup generators from Generac for its data centers, sending the stock up 16%, and even the Fed is acknowledging that the massive AI buildout is driving up demand — and inflation — across the economy.
- Nobody can model how the Iran war ends — rotate into defense names like Lockheed and RaytheonLONG · LMT, NOC, RTX
Markets are struggling to price what an Iran war could do to oil and the global economy because nobody knows how it ends. When uncertainty is this high, defense contractors tend to attract steady buying as investors look for companies that benefit directly from rising military spending.
- The Fed is hiking while the Bank of England sits still — short the pound against the dollarSHORT · GBP
The US Fed just raised rates and might raise them again, while the UK's central bank is standing still at 3.75%. When one country keeps paying savers more than another, money flows toward the higher-paying currency — and that's the US right now.
- Banks just funded a $22B AI data-center play while Ciena guides to 30% growth — buy the AI networking supplierLONG · CIEN, GOOGL
Networking equipment maker Ciena just told investors it expects revenue to grow 30% over three years, and banks are lending $22 billion to a Blackstone-Alphabet venture to build AI data centers. Big money is still flowing into AI infrastructure despite the Fed's rate hike.
- World's biggest gas buyer warns LNG prices will keep climbing into winter — buy natural gas and LNG exportersLONG · LNG, UNG
The head of Jera, the world's biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas, says gas prices are likely to keep climbing because Europe's storage is low and shipments through the Strait of Hormuz are being disrupted, right as winter demand kicks in.
- Judge orders remedies in Google's ad-tech case just as rates top 5% — short GOOGL on the double hitSHORT · GOOGL
A judge has just unsealed an order forcing big changes to Google's ad business, arriving just as the Fed hikes rates again and long-term borrowing costs top 5%. A company facing forced business changes on one side and punishing financing costs on the other has little support from either camp of investors.
- Oracle's pricey Ellison plan meets 'higher for longer' rates — short the bloated-spending mega-capsSHORT · BRK.B, ORCL
Oracle just dropped after announcing an expensive plan from Larry Ellison, and the Fed has now raised rates again with more hikes promised. Richly valued big-tech names that need heavy borrowing to fund big spending plans are the most exposed to money staying expensive for longer.
- Bond prices keep sinking as the 10-year yield tops 5% — short long-term Treasury ETFs like TLTSHORT · IEF, TLT
The Fed just raised rates and signaled more hikes are coming, and borrowing costs worldwide keep climbing — the 10-year US government bond yield just hit 5%, its highest since 2023. Bond funds that hold long-term government bonds lose money whenever those yields rise.
- A credible Fed could calm the bond market — contrarian bounce trade on the S&P 500LONG · QQQ, SPY
The Fed's full-agreement rate hike actually reassured some investors, and analysts note the stock market may do better with a Fed that convincingly fights inflation because it stops the scary runaway rise in borrowing costs. Reuters reports the Fed has rebuilt credibility, which could calm the bond market that has been rattling stocks.
- Crypto's big regulation bill just failed — the riskiest coins have the most room to fallSHORT · AVAX, DOGE, SOL
Congress failed to pass the Clarity Act, the bill that would have set clear rules for crypto, and crypto prices tumbled in response. Without legal clarity, the riskiest coins are most exposed to further selling.
- Yields are lurching past 5% and stocks keep sliding — buy the fear with a volatility hedgeLONG · SPY, VXX
Big investors say the scariest thing in markets right now is borrowing costs shooting up too fast and chaotically, not the Fed hike itself. Stocks have already fallen back-to-back days as yields blew through the 5% mark, and chaos like this usually triggers sharp spikes in market fear gauges.
- Nvidia just bought Hugging Face for $12.9B, but the Fed's hike buried the news — buy the dip on NVDALONG · NVDA
Nvidia just spent $12.9 billion buying Hugging Face, a hugely important AI software company, but the whole stock market got knocked down because the Fed raised rates and promised more hikes. That means a genuinely big company-specific win is being drowned out by macro noise.
- Trump turns on Fed Chair Warsh over rate hikes — bet on gold as Fed credibility cracksLONG · GDX, GLD
President Trump publicly attacked Fed Chair Kevin Warsh right after the central bank raised interest rates. Open conflict between the White House and the Fed raises doubts about how long the rate-hiking campaign can last.
- AI money is rotating from chips to cybersecurity — swap NVIDIA exposure for CrowdStrike and Palo AltoLONG · CRWD, NVDA, PANW
With borrowing costs at their highest since 2007, investors are dumping expensive chip stocks but paying up for cybersecurity companies like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto, whose revenue holds up better in a slow economy. The AI story isn't dying — it's rotating from hardware to security software.
- Turkey's fund blow-up plus a Fed 'higher for longer' squeeze — short emerging markets vs the S&P 500SHORT · EEM, SPY
A fund crisis in Turkey has sent its stock market down more than 5%, and the Fed's fresh rate hike is tightening financial conditions worldwide. Emerging markets — which borrow in dollars — tend to suffer most when US rates stay high and the dollar strengthens.
- Saudi loadings halted in a deepening oil crisis — buy the big oil producers on the supply shockLONG · CVX, XLE, XOM
Saudi Arabia's oil shipping is being disrupted, with Aramco halting cargo loadings at a major export terminal amid a deepening crisis. Supply interruptions from the world's biggest oil exporter usually push oil prices up sharply.
- Crypto shrugs off the Fed hike while Zcash rips 23% — rotate into high-beta altcoin momentumLONG · BTC, IBIT, ZEC
Even though the Fed just raised interest rates — usually bad news for risky investments — Bitcoin held above $76,000 and Zcash, a privacy-focused coin, exploded 23% higher. That tells us crypto money isn't fleeing; it's rotating into smaller, hotter coins.
- Dollar hits seven-week high while the yen keeps sinking — ride USD/JPY higherLONG · FXY, USDJPY
The Fed just raised rates again and promised possibly more, pushing the US dollar to a seven-week high. Meanwhile Japan's central bank is facing its toughest decision in decades as the yen keeps sliding, and it may stay cautious — a widening gap that favors the dollar over the yen.
- Bitcoin funds are vacuuming up $6.8B in six weeks — ride the momentum with IBITLONG · IBIT, MSTR
Huge amounts of money — $6.8 billion in six weeks — are pouring into Bitcoin funds that regular stock investors can buy through their brokerage accounts. This steady inflow is pushing Bitcoin higher even as other markets wobble.
- Fed hiked again and promises more — fade the futures bounce with a short S&P tradeSHORT · QQQ, SPY
The Fed raised rates another quarter point and told markets to expect one more hike this year. Even though stocks sold off on the news, futures are already bouncing — a rally into a tightening cycle with rates at multi-decade highs looks fragile.
- Rates are staying high and the Fed may hike again — rotate into big banks like JPMorgan and Bank of AmericaLONG · BAC, JPM, WFC
Government bond interest rates just hit their highest levels in nearly two decades, and Goldman Sachs now thinks the Fed will raise rates again in October. While this is bad news for most stocks, banks actually make more money when rates stay high because they earn more on loans.
- Night movers — Sep 17: Chips surge as telecoms and Boeing slide into the nightNEUTRAL · INTC, AMD, ORCL, TJX, NVDA, TMUS
Intel led the after-midnight gainers, rising about 7.67%, followed by AMD up roughly 6.36%, ORCL higher by around 5.19%, TJX gaining approximately 3.02%, and NVDA adding about 2.54%. On the downside, TMUS dropped about 5.57%, with CMCSA lower by roughly 3.46%, CRM down approximately 2.90%, VZ slipping about 2.87%, and BA easing roughly 2.46%.
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