Greetings,
Energy: European energy prices have gone vertical. These unprecedented market moves will scar European and global economies by squeezing corporate margins and ultimately cutting into households’ disposable incomes and sentiment.
![The Daily Shot Brief – October 6th, 2021](https://thedailyshot.com/wp-content/uploads/EN-EU-NG2110060429.png)
Rates: Morgan Stanley expects the Fed’s RRP (reverse repo) program usage to peak in size when the debt ceiling is resolved (when the Treasury general account will reach its lowest point before getting rebuilt).
![The Daily Shot Brief – October 6th, 2021](https://thedailyshot.com/wp-content/uploads/RA-RRP-Use-to-peak2110060429.png)
The first leveraged loan tied to SOFR (LIBOR replacement) should boost confidence in the transition.
![The Daily Shot Brief – October 6th, 2021](https://thedailyshot.com/wp-content/uploads/RA-AAA-SOFR-ST2110060429.png)
Credit: Which of the following factors will most likely impact credit portfolios?
![The Daily Shot Brief – October 6th, 2021](https://thedailyshot.com/wp-content/uploads/CR-Impact-on-credit-portgolios-AAA2110060429.png)
Equities: What does the decline in option skew …
![The Daily Shot Brief – October 6th, 2021](https://thedailyshot.com/wp-content/uploads/EQ-SKEW2110060429.png)
… mean for stocks?
![The Daily Shot Brief – October 6th, 2021](https://thedailyshot.com/wp-content/uploads/EQ-SPY-returns-after-SKEW-drops2110060429.png)
Emerging Markets: It appears that EM stocks have not fully priced in a slowdown in China.
![The Daily Shot Brief – October 6th, 2021](https://thedailyshot.com/wp-content/uploads/EM-Stocks32110060429.png)
Food for Thought: States with the highest and lowest business cost affordability:
![The Daily Shot Brief – October 6th, 2021](https://thedailyshot.com/wp-content/uploads/VTB-AAA-Business-cost-affordability2110060429.png)
Edited by Devon Lall
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