So as the week begins...

Global equities are higher, fueled by Emmanuel Macron's big win in France's National Assembly election.

The euro is virtually flat versus most major currencies as the election results were well anticipated by the markets.

Can both explanations really be true? Yes, they sure can. Bloomberg's Richard Breslow explains...

What we are seeing in the markets today is where asset prices want to go in the absence of new news. Simultaneously, the path of least resistance and infliction of most pain. Call it what you want, but the screens scream happy. It's summertime, and investors are impelled to keep taking advantage of everything that's worked so well from policies targeting happy financial conditions.

Sure, the Fed is talking tough. And a lot of other central banks are trying it on for size. "See, that didn't hurt too bad, did it?" But traders are betting it will all be manana. That no one setting policy will let the applecart be upset and they will so over-communicate that there is in fact no risk. Risk isn't being underpriced at all. It accurately reflects a sober, and sobering, reflection of ongoing central bank reaction functions.

Which means while we have periodic, real and contrived upsets, they are ultimately dismissed and faded. A discussion of when to buy often begins even before the sell- off. This means that when things do get out of hand, traders will react to it in a clumsy and leaden fashion. And the inevitable cause is going to be something central bank- derived, because it's the only reality check on carry that they too will be slow to react to.

It's unlikely to have anything to do with the rather healthy and measured tightening we are going to see. But everyone pushing peripheral spreads toward "risk, what risk?" levels should consider what it might mean when quantitative easing is gradually removed. Unless you actually believe that the ECB will finally abandon the Capital Key and the Macron election will inspire Germany to start writing insurance on Europe-wide debt and financial institutions.