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Big ADP Private Employ Miss Spurred Early Rate Bounce

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Tsy 10Y futures hold steady into the close, curves flatter with bonds outperforming mildly weaker levels in the short end late Wednesday.
  • After some brief volatility, Tsys bounced off weaker levels after a huge miss in ADP private employment data (+374k vs. +625k est). While historical correlation between the ADP data and headline Non-Farm Payrolls due Friday is inconclusive -- risk-off support in rates did gain some momentum.
  • Tsys started to scale back support prior to the midmorning ISM data: Mfg PMI rose 0.4pt in Aug to 59.9, recovering from July's lowest level since Jan and beating market forecasts (BBG: 58.5). Significant supply-chain issues remain, however, tempering the better than expected data while rates held a narrow range through the closing bell.
  • Meanwhile, US$ index continued to inch lower (DXY -.176 at 92.450) and equities held nominal gains (ESU1 +3.25).
  • Decent pick-up in swappable corporate issuance ($7.25B) generated some hedging flow as did better put trade across the curve. Otherwise, participants stayed close to the sidelines ahead Fri's August employ data, median estimate of +780k.
  • The 2-Yr yield is up 0bps at 0.2094%, 5-Yr is up 0.3bps at 0.7804%, 10-Yr is down 0.7bps at 1.302%, and 30-Yr is down 1.1bps at 1.9215%.

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