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Holding Cheaper After Retail Sales and Broader Confluence Of Factors

US TSYS
  • Cash Tsys heading nearer the close with the 2Y +13bps after most of the action came early with retail sales. Even though the ex-autos & gas/control group beats were small, they were treated as at least ruling out consumers coming under the cosh following banking stresses and built on better-than-expected large bank earnings landing beforehand.
  • Moves were further stoked by hawkish commentary from the Fed’s Waller before a surprise jump in near-term U.Mich inflation expectations.
  • The front end drags the rest of the yield curve higher, with 10YY +7.5bps (real yields +5.5bps), whilst in futures space, TYM3 trades at 114-28+ (-18) off a post-retail low of 114-23 that stopped short of 114-18 (Apr 3 low).
  • Fed Funds: 20bp hike for May FOMC, a cumulative 24bp of hikes for Jun, mostly reversed by Sep and moving onto 35bp of cuts from current levels to year-end vs closer to 50bps yesterday.

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