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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Stocks have been under pressure on the back of fresh concerns over inflation.
- Brainard Urges Patient Fed After April Jobs Report
- EU finance ministers likely to back more fiscal support at this week's Lisbon meeting
Source: MNI, Bloomberg
US
MNI Brief: Brainard Urges Patient Fed After April Jobs Report
Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard on Tuesday called for patience in pulling back policy support after a disappointing April jobs report, noting that while the recovery is gathering pace, the economy remains as many as 10 million jobs short of the Fed's full employment goal.
MNI Brief: Fed's Harker Says April Jobs Disappointment is Likely an Outlier
The U.S. economic outlook is improving rapidly and the emerging recovery from the Covid slump could be "long and durable," Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker said Tuesday.
EUROPE
MNI Brief: EU FinMins To Back More Fiscal Effort As Outlook Improves (MNI)
EU finance ministers are likely to signal fiscal policy settings will remain on full throttle when they meet in person at Lisbon later this week, despite expectations of an improved economic outlook in the European Commission Spring forecasts due Wednesday, Brussels sources told MNI.
UK
MNI INTERVIEW: UK Treasury Should Clarify QE Deal With BOE
The UK Treasury should clarify how it would meet the terms of its indemnity agreement with the Bank of England under which it promises to make good any losses on bond purchases under its quantitative easing programme should rates rise, National Institute of Economic and Social Research head Jagjit Chadha told MNI.
MNI INTERVIEW: BOE Could Sell Gilts In QE Unwind-NIESR's Chadha
The surge in the Bank of England bond buying following the Covid shock has strengthened the argument for selling gilts back to the market rather than for simply waiting for them to expire at maturity without replacement when the time comes to tighten policy, National Institute of Economic and Social Research head Jagjit Chadha told MNI.
Inflation Concerns Underpin Bear Steepening
USTs have been under pressure on the back of intensifying concerns about inflation which have unsettled equity markets and caused sovereign bond curves to bear steepen.
- UST cash yields are 1-3bp higher with the curve 1-2bp steeper. Last yields: 2-year 0.1568%, 5-year 0.7950%, 10-year 1.6182%, 30-year 2.3474%.
- TYM1 trades at 32-15+, towards the bottom end of the day's range (L: 132-12+ / H: 132-23+)
- There have been a slew of Fed speakers hitting the wires this afternoon. The San Francisco Fed's Daly stated that the modal outlook is positive, while the Atlanta Fed's Raphael Bostic stressed that the recovery still has a long way to go and that policy should remain accommodative.
- The latter was reiterated by James Bullard who stated that it was too early to discuss tapering.
EGBs-GILTS CASH CLOSE: Core FI Falls Alongside Equities
A rout in global equities (FTSE-2.5%, DAX -1.8%) did nothing to offset a big drop in core global FI, with Bunds and Gilts underperforming Treasuries amid strong bear steepening.
- The overall risk-off tone was set early with tech stocks continuing to fall; but on the bond side it appeared to be more concern on the inflation / supply side of things that roiled markets, particularly ahead of Wednesday's key US CPI release.
- Bund / Gilt yields closed near session highs, with curves on the steeps. Periphery EGBs largely contained though, with BTP spreads barely changed.
- In data, German ZEW sentiment beat expectations (21-year high). No surprises in UK Queen's Speech.
- In supply, today we got GBP4.5bn in Gilt sales, and German syndication of 30-Yr Green Bond.
- Wednesday sees a Portugal OT auction, UK GDP, and some EZ Final CPI data.
Closing yields/10-Yr Spreads to Bunds:
- Germany: The 2-Yr yield is up 1.8bps at -0.668%, 5-Yr is up 4.2bps at -0.549%, 10-Yr is up 5.1bps at -0.161%, and 30-Yr is up 4.9bps at 0.408%.
- UK: The 2-Yr yield is up 2.6bps at 0.064%, 5-Yr is up 3.4bps at 0.355%, 10-Yr is up 4.5bps at 0.833%, and 30-Yr is up 5.9bps at 1.388%.
- Italian BTP spread up 0.7bps at 114.7bps / Spanish spread up 0.3bps at 68.2bps
FOREX: Currencies Calm Despite Equity Market Rout
- Currency markets were a relative calm Tuesday, despite the continued volatility in equity markets, which spread beyond the tech sector to draw the Dow Jones Industrial Average lower by near 1.5%.
- The USD's weakness on Monday carried through for much of the Tuesday session, with the likes of EUR/USD and GBP/USD hovering just below the week's highs. After an uneventful European morning, JPY and EUR shook to the top of the G10 pile, while CHF and NZD traded poorly.
- Inflation concerns remain a primary driver, with underlying gyrations in stocks to value from growth sectors prompting some appetite for haven currencies.
- Focus Wednesday rests on the US CPI release for April, with the Y/Y headline CPI release seen lurching higher to 3.6% from 2.6% previously. Other key releases include UK GDP and Eurozone industrial production numbers.
- Fedspeak remains key for the market outlook, with speeches scheduled from Fed's Clarida, Rosengren, Bostic and Harker. BoE's Bailey is also on the docket.
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