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Notable Trimming Of Rate Cut Expectations On Payrolls

STIR FUTURES
  • There is now a 17bp hike for the May FOMC from the current effective 4.83% (vs 12bp 30mins before release), there is now only half a cut priced for Sept (-12.5bps vs -27bps) and marginally less than two cuts for Dec (-47bps vs -64bps).
  • This is a sizeable lifting for a broadly inline payrolls figures which had a combination of some hotter and some softer aspects to the wider report, although importantly for markets it ruled out a potential for showing a sharp correction in labour demand.
  • The scale of the move was likely a function of notable weakness from JOLTS/ADP/ISM/initial claims already being priced (the 4.36% for year-end is back at pre-JOLTS levels) but is potentially exacerbated by thin markets on Good Friday.
  • CPI follows soon on Wed as the next key test.

FOMC-dated Fed Funds implied ratesSource: Bloomberg

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