“By far the best economic predictor I’ve ever met is the inside of the stock market.”
— Stanley Druckenmiller
Everyone wants to debate what the Fed is going to do next. I prefer watching what the market is already doing.
Right now, bank stocks are quietly making new all time highs.
That matters.
Take a look at the first chart. The blue line is the 30 Year Treasury Yield, while the brown line is the Effective Federal Funds Rate. The Fed controls the short end of the curve through overnight rates, but the market controls the long end.
Today we have an interesting setup.
The Fed has been holding rates low while the 30 year Treasury yield has remained elevated around 5%.
That creates a favorable environment for banks.
Banks generally fund themselves with shorter term deposits while making longer-term loans like mortgages, commercial real estate loans, and business lending. When short-term funding costs stabilize or fall while long term interest rates remain high, banks can earn a wider spread between what they pay depositors and what they collect on loans. That spread is called the net interest margin, and it’s one of the biggest drivers of bank profitability.
There’s another piece to this story.
When interest rates remain attractive, deposits tend to stay inside the banking system. Those deposits become the raw material banks use to create loans.
Through fractional reserve banking, banks don’t simply lend out every dollar sitting in a vault. A deposit becomes the foundation for multiple rounds of lending throughout the financial system. Your deposit can help finance a mortgage, which becomes someone else’s deposit, which can support another loan. That process expands credit throughout the economy and helps fuel growth.
The market appears to be recognizing exactly that.
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