Quad witching almost over. FOMC post-mortem, consensus probably right on "level of inflation" but not on "timing" --> Energy still our favorite sector

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STRATEGY: Quad witching almost over. FOMC post-mortem, consensus probably right on "level of inflation" but not on "timing" --> Energy still our favorite sector
While USA cases continue to recede, UK cases and hospitalizations are rising...
I am not trying to sound any alarm bells, but the case trends in the UK are not plateauing. Since the daily cases ticked up a month ago, the daily cases are still surging in the UK:

- daily cases are now 8,000 per day
- was 2,000 per day in late May
- hospitalizations are starting to rise

- this is due to the Delta variant

As we wrote about, the UK has a different composition of vaccines, and this might explain the surge. But we need to keep an eye on that. By contrast, USA cases continue to collapse and are on the track to fall sub-10,000 and maybe sub-5,000 next week.

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In the meantime, US vaccination trends seem to be curling upwards. In fact, there were a total of 2,035,923 doses administered newly reported by CDC on Thursday. Although this large increase is partially due to the under-reporting on Wednesday (see the table of daily vaccination by state b...

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