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01 Sep 2023

Markets leap higher on weakening payrolls growth

Goldilocks is enjoying her just-right porridge this morning after a US payrolls report pointed to a gradual easing in labour market conditions, supporting expectations for an imminent end to the Federal Reserve’s tightening cycle. North America The US economy added 187,000 new non-farm jobs last month, marking the third consecutive month of gains below 200,000, and helping bolster bets on an imminent end to the Federal Reserve’s tightening cycle. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate jumped off historic lows to 3.8 percent in August, up from 3.5 percent in the previous month’s print (but we note that...

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01 Sep 2023

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Canada’s economy showed clear signs of deceleration in the third quarter, reducing market-implied odds on further rate increases from the Bank of Canada. Although inflation measures remain sticky and above the central bank’s target range, excess demand is clearly ebbing, and labour market tightness is beginning to ease. Conditions will likely worsen in the months ahead as the early autumn surge in global borrowing costs inflicts pain on one of the world’s most deeply over-leveraged private sectors hard, and we expect rate differentials to tilt more firmly against Canada into early 2024, offsetting commodity price gains and a generalized dollar...

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31 Aug 2023

US exceptionalism trade lifts dollar, supports rate expectations across the curve

Risk appetite remains relatively strong after a series of data releases – including today’s spending and inflation numbers – helped bolster bets on a “soft landing” in the US economy that could convince the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates at prevailing levels for an extended period. The major North American equity indices are inching higher, Treasury yields are climbing off three-week lows, and commodity prices are enjoying a brief period of respite, even as the dollar – symbol of American economic outperformance – pushes higher against its major counterparts. North America American consumers spent more than expected last month, defying...

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29 Aug 2023

Markets mean-revert into month end

With month-end flows increasing and the week’s major data releases still ahead, the dollar is trapped in a consolidative range, North American equity bourses are setting up for a modestly-stronger opening, and Treasury yields are incrementally lower across the front end of the curve. North America The number of job vacancies per unemployed worker likely held near the 1.6 mark in July, underlining continued tightness in the US labour market. This morning’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (out at 10 am) is expected to show roughly 9.45 million jobs available in the month, with the quits rate – a proxy...

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28 Aug 2023

Lack of forward guidance from Jackson Hole leaves markets relatively unmoved

The dollar is trading below levels that prevailed ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s Friday appearance at Jackson Hole. Although markets (briefly) appeared to think otherwise, we read the speech as coming in slightly more dovish than expectations, with repeated use of the phrase “proceed carefully” helping put the central bank on a data-dependent footing into the autumn months. Most major equity indices are up and Treasury yields are slightly lower on an essentially-unchanged monetary policy outlook for the US and the euro area. Commodity-linked currencies are recovering from a short-lived rally that unfolded when China launched half-hearted attempts...

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