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Holding Modest Gain In Front US Rates As Data Dependence Wins Out

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  • SOFR futures are holding most of their limited gains, led by the SFRM3 +0.02 with gains tailing off to a small -0.01 cheapening for 1H24 contracts and then only building again out into the green pack and beyond.
  • The moves see a small further tightening in the SFRM3/Z3 time spread to -0.3275 at what would be its tightest close since Mar 9 very early on in SVB-related spillover.
  • Volumes are unsurprisingly subdued on Memorial Day, with the SFRM3 seeing a cumulative 47.5k vs the recent average of 81k for the time of day, and at a time when they’d usually kick on from here.
  • An increasing shift to data dependence, echoed most recently by Chicago Fed’s Goolsbee (’23 voter) over the weekend and before that Daly (’24 voter) calling for “extreme” data dependence ahead of the Jun 15 FOMC, helps limit moves on the day. With that in mind, Friday’s NFP report will be particularly important but with plenty of other notable second tier releases before then.

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