CPI Excludes Meals: Have You Seen the ETF DBA? | Mish’s Market Minute

Perhaps it is simply Valentine’s Day, so the meals and commodities market sees a push to sweets, flowers, and advantageous eating.

And possibly not.

The patron value index (CPI) got here out with an surprising rise… however items remained softer. Companies, alternatively, rose. Nevertheless, the core CPI excludes meals and vitality costs.

We see no reduction in lots of the agricultural commodities within the Invesco DB Agricultural Fund ETF. The underlying index consists of corn, soybeans, wheat, Kansas Metropolis wheat, sugar, cocoa, espresso, cotton, reside cattle, feeder cattle, lean hogs, and, most not too long ago, livestock.

The funding seeks to trace adjustments, whether or not constructive or destructive, within the stage of the DBIQ Diversified Agriculture Index Extra Return™ (the “index”) over time, plus the curiosity revenue from the fund’s holdings of primarily U.S. Treasury securities and cash market revenue much less the fund’s bills.

If you wish to monitor how the Fed is doing controlling actual inflation, whatever the inverted yield curve, the rise in lengthy bond yields, and even the U.S. greenback holding help…

Earlier than we assessment the chart, our quant fashions have a lot of commodities holdings. Particularly, the Sector Conservative, Sector Average, and GEMS fashions maintain metals and oil exploration. Curiously, we additionally maintain SOXL or the 3-times leveraged Semiconductor bull (since January 11).

Chips and commodities are the place it is at proper now. That makes chips as invaluable as sugar (one of many largest holdings in DBA). And talking of sugar, the futures are holding latest highs. One other blast increased in sugar and extra chaos might ensue, as now we have written about many instances. Here is a timely article written in April 2020!!!

The CPI quantity excludes meals. Nevertheless, whereas meals costs have declined from the height in July 2022, meals inflation sits at 10%. Meals at house is 11.3% and meals away from residence at 8.2%.

Circling again to the DBA chart, the worth rose to clear the entire prior value motion since October 2022. Nevertheless, the 200-day moving average (MA) looms massive as resistance with at present’s excessive. Additionally noteworthy is that DBA is now outperforming the benchmark in response to our Leadership indicator.

Real Motion had a breakout and diversion to the upside, because the momentum cleared over the 200-day MA and popped to new highs not seen since final September. The diversion is that the momentum indicator cleared the 200-day MA whereas value has but to verify. One thing to be careful for.

With the 4 indexes nonetheless rangebound, these persevering with bullish tendencies in essentially the most important factor on the planet—meals—ought to preserve these specializing in A) disinflation and B) a fed pivot a bit quieter.

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• S&P 500 (SPY): 420 resistance with 390-400 help.
• Russell 2000 (IWM): 190 pivotal help and 202 main resistance.
• Dow (DIA): 343.50 resistance, 338 help.
• Nasdaq (QQQ): Good comeback–still 2 inside weeks working, so watch 311 as level to clear or fail from.
• Regional banks (KRE): 65.00 resistance, 61 help.
• Semiconductors (SMH): 248 cleared with the chips rout–254.60 final week’s excessive.
• Transportation (IYT): The 23-month MA is 244–now resistance, 228 help.
• Biotechnology (IBB): Sideways motion 130-139 vary.
• Retail (XRT): 78.00 the 23-month MA resistance and nearest help 68.00.

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