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US TSYS: Tsys Broadly Lower, Curves Flatter After Strong September Job Gains

US TSYS
  • Treasuries gapped lower following this morning's stronger than expected jobs data for September, futures gradually extending session lows since midmorning while curves bear flatten: 2s10s -8.542 at 5.295 -- the lowest since mid-September.
  • Payrolls growth was far stronger than expected in September at 254k (cons 150k) for a 104k surprise, nearly entirely driven by the 98k surprise for private payrolls (223k vs cons 125k).
  • The status flows within the household survey echo the strong headline figures that saw the unemployment rate surprisingly fall from 4.22% to 4.05%. The outright shift from employed to unemployed (-215k) extended the improvement seen in Aug (-47k) after what had been a sharp 292k increase in July that drove the surprise lurch in the unemployment rate to 4.25%.
  • Markets have been swift to price out a 50bp November rate cut after September's employment report came in much stronger than expected - in addition to revisions that recast the summer's weak hiring in a much more positive light. Indeed, November implied pricing has even dipped a little below 25bp, suggesting potential for a rate hold.
  • Meanwhile, focus turns to next week's CPI and PPI inflation measures on Thursday and Friday respectively, prefaced by Wednesday's September FOMC minutes release.
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  • Treasuries gapped lower following this morning's stronger than expected jobs data for September, futures gradually extending session lows since midmorning while curves bear flatten: 2s10s -8.542 at 5.295 -- the lowest since mid-September.
  • Payrolls growth was far stronger than expected in September at 254k (cons 150k) for a 104k surprise, nearly entirely driven by the 98k surprise for private payrolls (223k vs cons 125k).
  • The status flows within the household survey echo the strong headline figures that saw the unemployment rate surprisingly fall from 4.22% to 4.05%. The outright shift from employed to unemployed (-215k) extended the improvement seen in Aug (-47k) after what had been a sharp 292k increase in July that drove the surprise lurch in the unemployment rate to 4.25%.
  • Markets have been swift to price out a 50bp November rate cut after September's employment report came in much stronger than expected - in addition to revisions that recast the summer's weak hiring in a much more positive light. Indeed, November implied pricing has even dipped a little below 25bp, suggesting potential for a rate hold.
  • Meanwhile, focus turns to next week's CPI and PPI inflation measures on Thursday and Friday respectively, prefaced by Wednesday's September FOMC minutes release.