Don't miss the ocean's treasures when looking for commodities and inflation protection
As recently as August 2020, the US ten-year government bond traded at prices corresponding to 0.50 percent annual interest. Today, seven months later, the interest rate has more than tripled to 1.75%. This is mainly due to higher growth expectations now that vaccine distribution has started. But the inflation threat is also being taken more and more seriously, except by the central banks.
As recently as August 2020, the US ten-year government bond traded at prices corresponding to 0.50 percent annual interest. Today, seven months later, the interest rate has more than tripled to 1.75%. This is mainly due to higher growth expectations now that vaccine distribution has started. But the inflation threat is also being taken more and more seriously, except by the central banks.
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According to Shadowstats, actual inflation is almost 10%, if measured according to the same principles as in 1980 before the Fed began changing the definitions. It also rhymes better with the rapid increase in the money supply (M2) relative to growth in real GDP. The US stock markets, with Nasdaq in the lead, have fallen slightly on the interest rate threat, despite the US Federal Reserve promising to keep the key interest rate close to zero for at least another couple of years. Nasdaq is still twice as high as when the pandemic fear was at its worst just a year ago, so that particular variant of growth component at least gives me a fear of heights.
Official inflation is much lower than perceived
As an investor, with a logical and well-thought-out strategy, you want to take a positive part of both growth and inflation. In several forums, I have previously highlighted the company EMX Royalty corporation as an excellent way to achieve such exposure. EMX does not consist completely unlike my old Hublot Big Bang to about 2/3 gold (inflation protection) and 1/3 copper (economic growth, not least against electric cars and power distribution). But there is also another raw material with similar properties that can complement the mentioned metals, namely the sea rose gold, salmon.
It is both the values and the threat of regulation against the monopoly-like technology giants that make me want to avoid Nasdaq. In addition, there are more new listed companies than ever in the past year, and almost all of these are at a loss. When the interest rate rises quickly or above a certain threshold level, it is precisely the patience with losses that disappears first. A perhaps somewhat unexpected alternative to mines and information traders is Nordic fish stocks in the form of Vontobel's tracker product with the Solactive Nordic Seafood index as the underlying. In the last five months, the price has increased stronglyt but has actually only barely recovered from the corona fall a year ago. Among individual Norwegian fish stocks, Leröy Seafood (market value NOK 43 billion) has consistently developed best in recent years. In three years, the share has risen 55% and so far this year by 19%.
Through the fish stocks, you could get at the same time exposure to environmental considerations with reduced focus on terrestrial meat animals, to money-pressing and actual (Shadowstats) consumer price inflation, and to a growing global protein demand (growing population, declining productive agricultural area, increasing living standards).
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