Australia’s slow growth, weaker dollar
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Why did Australia’s slower‑than‑expected growth push the Aussie dollar lower?
Australia's growth a bit slower than most had expected, but we have to say pretty much where NAB had it still a weaker Aussie against a falling US dollar this morning. The US services ISM was a downside surprise as well. And Europe will France get what they want in getting rid of Barnier? And if so, what happens next? It's Thursday, it's the fifth of December twenty twenty-four. It's the morning call from NAB. Good morning. Well, treasury yields down three basis points this morning, down to four point one nine percent. In Germany and the UK yields are up one basis point. Aussie ten year yields yesterday, they were down four basis points to four point two six percent. Now in futures down another four basis points to four point two two percent.
The US dollar down about naught point two percent on the DXY, and the Aussie down on that falling dollar. Uh so the Aussie losing three quarters of one percent down to below The pound is up a third of one percent, not point three percent higher for the euro as well, and US equities racing ahead again. The Dow is up naught point four percent, same for the S P, up one percent for the Nasdaq, a new record high again there, and for the S P. And the Russell two thousand uh is up a quarter percent as well. In Europe, well the DAX is up one point one percent, the CACCarrond up naught point seven percent, but the FT one hundred closed down naught point three per cent, and oil down again uh today, naught point six percent off WTI, half percent off Brent, which is down below seventy three thirty a barrel now.
So Nab's Gavin Friend is with me today from London. So two currencies, perhaps the moves driven by data, uh I'm assuming. Uh so US services ISM and the US dollar and the Aussie dollar and the GDP numbers from from yesterday. Okay. But um they're both driven down. Let's look at those ISM numbers first of all, from fifty-six last time to fifty-two point one. That's quite a drop.
Yes, good morning, Phil. Some rare, softer US economic data. Um you know, this is a key um, you know, activity number for the services sector, which obviously drives most of the US economy, pulling back, as you say, to uh to fifty two point one from fifty-six. That's still expanding, but at a you know, uh a a a suitably slower pace than thought, and much slower than the fifty-seven reading in the alternative S P P and I services measure which you know we had the The uh the preliminary number out uh almost two weeks ago and the final number out Wednesday, which was revised back from fifty seven to fifty six. But you know, so you know, within that softer headline, business activity, new orders, employment all pulled back, as did supplier deliveries, which dipped below fifty as deliveries pick up pick up uh pick up pace.
It's not clear whether deliveries, you know, at faster pace there are because they're becoming more efficient or or whether it is because it's a it's a reflection of slowing new orders and a consequent focus on you know filling those order backlogs and that's that's that's driving that. While prices paid remained elevated um pretty much unchanged at fifty eight point two, the survey reported views from participants across the service sector where there were observations of caution um and hesitancy on the incoming Trump government, his policies, potentially, you know, higher prices from the tariffs. The construction sector noted that Fed rate cuts hadn't yet sort of had the desired effect on uh on on the on on um household building, although they expected it too.
So, you know, there's a there's a cautionary there. W uh I mean the market's basically reacted to it in lower yields, but actually to my point about having one measure of service sector, the ISM, at at uh fifty two and another the S and P at fifty six. You know, we go back to where we were a few months ago where people just don't know what you know what's the true reading. Of course it is suitably above just about anywhere else in the world, you know, absent absent China uh in the Qaising so
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why did Australia’s slower‑than‑expected growth push the Aussie dollar lower?
0:01–4:26
2
How did the US Services ISM surprise affect global bond yields and the US dollar?
4:26–7:42
3
What does the market’s reaction to the US ISM tell us about expectations for Fed rate cuts?
7:42–12:15
4
Why is Jerome Powell’s panel discussion important for the rate‑cut outlook?
12:15–16:31
5
What are the implications of Donald Trump’s SEC chair nominee for crypto regulation?
16:31–19:48
6
How could the French no‑confidence vote on Barnier impact European markets?
19:48–19:50