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Inflation Breakevens Firming After June Slide

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  • A large part of today’s Tsy sell-off comes from higher inflation breakevens, especially in the front-end to belly rather than longer end as oil surges higher.
  • The 5Y breakeven is 6bps higher at 2.67%, moving further off last week’s low of 2.50% to the highest since Jul 5 but still close to pre-taper levels having tumbled lower through June and with a similar story in swaps.
  • Longer-term measures are more encouraging for the Fed, with the 5Y5Y breakeven almost unchanged at 2.07%, close to both pre-Ukraine war and 2021 lows.
  • It follows two conflicting surveys last week, with the preliminary U.Mich survey of 5-10Y consumer inflation expectations surprisingly falling from 3.1% to 2.8% for July but a large rise in the share of businesses in the Atlanta Fed's survey seeing unit costs inflation averaging more than 5% over 5-10Y.

Source: Bloomberg

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