2024 financial market outlook by Octa

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<p>In 2024, we are in for an election year of heightened geopolitical tensions in the US and worldwide. In addition, the likelihood of the Fed guiding the US economy to a safe landing with interest rates is still being determined. Besides, a global recession is still not out of the question.</p>
<p>We have therefore looked at two possible scenarios for market behaviour. The baseline scenario would mark a resumption of global growth, so we consider it positive. The non-basic scenario implies the realisation of most economic and geopolitical risks—so it can be called negative.</p>
<p><strong>Baseline scenario—soft landing</strong></p>
<p>The positive scenario assumes a continued improvement in macroeconomic indicators—inflation will fall so much that central banks will start cutting rates. In this case, the US Federal Reserve keeps the key rate on pause until the June meeting and then proceeds to its systematic reduction. Thus, in the first half of 2024, fixed-income equities (government and other bonds) and equities will be in less demand amidst the uncertainty, prioritising defensive assets such as gold and bitcoin.</p>
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<p>Business cycles are outpacing economic cycles, so global asset rebalancing will begin early in March. The most likely trigger for investors will be the Fed meeting on 19 and 20 March with a summary of economic projections and information from corporations during earnings season.</p>
<p>Although the US economy gives the main impetus for the global financial markets, events in the rest of the world should also be considered. As macroeconomic indicators improve, we will likely see a moderate recovery in manufacturing activity in Europe and an improvement in the UK labour market. The Japanese Central Bank may announce its intention to raise the key rate in the second half of 2024. A decrease in geopolitical tensions in the zones of military conflicts will accompany all this.</p>
<blockquote><p>The tactics of traders’ actions imply working on the uptrend of gold and bitcoin from the beginning of the year to mid-March—the period before the two-day meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve’, said Kar Yong Ang, Octa’s financial market analyst. ‘From late March to early April 2024, traders should sell the U.S. dollar in all major currency pairs, added Kar Yong Ang.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Non-basic scenario—recession is not excluded</strong></p>
<p>The labour market is critical in determining whether economic conditions move from a soft to a hard landing. In this case, even with inflation stabilising, we will see how the economy has failed to sustain excessive interest rate rises. This continues to negatively impact yields on all bond issues, cascading into all parts of the financial market. Corporations will tend to cut labour costs, provoking a further decline in consumer spending.</p>
<p>By mid-2024, we will see the flywheel of high-interest rates provoke a significant rise in unemployment rates, consumer credit, and mortgage delinquencies. From the second half of 2024, this will move from the consumer back to the corporate sector and then on to macroeconomic indicators—at the end of the year, corporate revenues tend to decline significantly, and unemployment is rising.</p>
<p>By September 2024, the situation will likely be so unambiguous that central banks will return to long-forgotten Quantitative easing (QE) to support corporations and the labour market. Separately, in such a situation, the Bank of Japan is unlikely to abandon its negative interest rate policy, thus giving insight into the USDJPY dynamics in 2024. Together with the destabilisation of the global economy, geopolitical tensions remain. He added:</p>
<blockquote><p>Due to high interest rates, investors will continue using defensive assets until September 2024. Traders’ tactics should be based on this—betting on stable growth in gold, oil, gas, bitcoin’, said Kar Yong Ang, Octa’s financial market analyst. After the September events, the uncertainty increases significantly, as the effect of hypothetical QE will not be immediate. In addition, the final of the U.S. election race makes the picture even more unpredictable.</p></blockquote>
<p>These scenarios share an identical trajectory from early 2024 to mid-March. After that, market dynamics can be characterised as either risk-off or risk-on. Awareness of the underlying trends and understanding future patterns could be a good trading opportunity in any of the scenarios described in 2024.</p>
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