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Net Impact Of Mixed Labour Market Report Sees FOMC Pricing Firm, Recent Extremes Untouched

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Plenty of gyrations in broader markets on the back of the digestions of the latest labour market report.

  • Highlights of the release included a notably firmer than expected headline NFP print (accompanied with positive revisions to recent months), as well as a larger than expected uptick in unemployment (driven by a meaningful fall in the number employed on the household survey side of the equation, which the unemployment rate is based on) and slightly softer than expected AHE data (including a negative revision to the prior M/M reading).
  • The net impact has seen an uptick in FOMC hike pricing covering the next two meetings, to ~9bp for June and a cumulative 21bp through July vs. ~7bp and 17bp, respectively, pre-data (remaining off of the recent hawkish extremes). Further out, ~33bp of cuts are now priced through year-end vs. ~39bp pre-data.
  • Pricing has moved away from post-data hawkish extremes.
  • With nothing in the way of Fedspeak scheduled ahead of the impending pre-meeting blackout period expect plenty of hike/skip debate from market participants re: the June FOMC, particularly on the back of the mixed labour market report.
MNI London Bureau | +44 0203-865-3809 | anthony.barton@marketnews.com

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