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MNI U.S. Weekly Macro Wrap: A Return To An Almost Clean Sweep Of Data Beats

Executive Summary

  • Retail sales on Tuesday kickstarted a week that saw a range of stronger than expected activity-related releases, with its control group rising 0.9% M/M in June vs expectations of a 0.2% increase.
  • A beat for industrial production followed, bolstering its nascent recovery evident in May, with the combination helping lift the Atlanta Fed’s real GDP growth tracker to 2.7% ahead of Thursday’s Q2 advance release after an increasingly broad soft patch over recent weeks.
  • Core import prices also offered the Fed some concern and the Philly Fed manufacturing survey saw a further sizeable climb in current period prices received in signs of localized stronger pricing power.
  • The sole soft piece of data was the surprise lurch higher in jobless claims, receiving plenty of interest with the labor market so keenly in focus but with a potential caveat with impact from Hurricane Beryl.
  • However, Powell’s comments and overhang from last week’s CPI and PPI data have limited the hawkish reaction to the mostly strong data. A first cut of the cycle is priced for September, with two CPI and payrolls reports still due before then, as a path currently with two and a half cuts by year-end.

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