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MMRI Still Anticipates U.S. Growth

Published 01/12/2015, 06:08 AM
Updated 07/09/2023, 06:31 AM

A markets-based estimate of US macro conditions has endured a volatile period in recent months, but the outlook remains positive in the new year. The Macro-Markets Risk Index (MMRI) closed at +7.2% on Friday (Jan. 9).

The benchmark’s ongoing persistence above zero implies that business cycle risk remains low. A decline below 0% in MMRI would indicate that recession risk is elevated; readings above 0% imply that the economy will expand in the near-term future.

MMRI represents a subset of the Economic Trend & Momentum indices (ETI and EMI), a pair of benchmarks that track the economy’s broad trend for signs of major turning points in the business cycle via a diversified set of indicators. (For details about ETI and EMI, see my book on monitoring the business cycle.) Analyzing the market-price components separately offers a real-time approximation of macro conditions, according to the “wisdom of the crowd.” Why look to the capital and commodity markets for insight into the economic trend? Timely signals. Conventional economic reports are published with a time lag. MMRI is intended for use as a supplement for developing real-time perspective until a complete set of data is published for updating the monthly economic profile.

MMRI measures the daily median change of four indicators based on the following calculations;

US stocks (S&P 500), 250-trading day % change
Credit spread (BofA ML US High Yield Master II Option-Adjusted Spread), inverted 250-trading day % change
Treasury yield curve (10 Year T-Note yield less 3-Month T-bill yield)
Oil prices (iPath S&P GSCI Crude Oil Total Return Index ETN (OIL)), inverted 250-trading day % change

Here’s how MMRI compares on a daily basis since August 2007:

MMRI Index.chart From August 15, 2007-To Present

Here’s a closer look at how MMRI compares on a daily basis over the past year:

MMRI Index daily chart From January 8, 2014-To Present

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