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What are today's headline market moves and expectations for the US dollar, China repo cut, and RBA decision?
So, what exactly is expected? China surprised everyone with a cut to its repo rate with more to come, apparently. Are they going to pull out all the stops to reach their five percent target? And what would that look like? And the RBA today, no moves either. And trouble in the Middle East seems to be escalating. And is Kamala Harris losing her lead? And why we need to listen to her on Wednesday this week in particular? It's Tuesday, the twenty fourth of September, twenty twenty four. It's the morning call from Nab. Good morning. So the US dollar had a bit of a rally today. It was up half a per cent then uh for most of the day, uh, but then up less than naught point two percent now because it lost all of that.
The Aussie though, up naught point six percent to sixty eight and a half US cents. The pound is up naught point two percent, but the euro down naught point four percent. Stocks are generally higher. The NASDAQ closed up naught point one percent, same for the Dow, the S P is up a quarter percent. Not big moves, but new highs for the Dow. SP, the Russell 2000 is down a bit. A good day for Tesla, though. It's up almost 5% today. In Europe, a 0.7% rise in the DAX of the close, 0.4% for the FTSE 100, 0.3% for the Eurostocks 50. The CAC Caron, though, is up just 0.1%. And a mixed story for bond yields. 10-year treasuries are flat. German 10-year bonds are down five basis points. But UK ten-year guilts are up two basis points.
years yesterday. We were up four basis points to three point nine six percent. They haven't really moved on futures overnight.
Why did oil prices drop while gold continued to rise?
And oil is well, it's falling. It's down 0.8% for WTI, 0.7% lower for Brent, down below seventy four barrel now for Brent, but it was higher for a large part of the session, getting above seventy five a barrel. And gold is up a bit more as well. It doesn't seem to stop it, does it? It's up another quarter percent. It hit another all time high today. So markets still finally balanced in the US. The questions are how many cuts? Are we going to get another big one? Is there a risk of a downturn in the labour market or a return of inflation? And where are we heading? What is the neutral rate? Nobody has answers to any of these things unless Tappa Strickland does. He joins me from NAB in Sydney. They are the questions, aren't they, that uh are being asked.
I mean, I understand the equity markets, they are expecting more cuts and a more buoyancy. future. Well sort of, at least that's presumably why they're up today, although, you know, no big moves there even.
Uh good morning, Phil. Yes, um an interesting session overnight, but uh in summary, not two large moves, especially in US markets, but there were a number of Fed officials speaking and giving their two cents worth after the FMC uh last week. And they're all pretty much on board with uh the Fed cutting by twenty five basis points uh um in each of the next few meetings, but being open to the possibility Of having to cut by more if the labour market data were to soften uh by a bit further. Uh and that seems to be the overwhelming consensus coming from uh Bostik and from Kashkarai. And just remember Kashkarai was one of the most hawkish F OMC members uh going back a couple of months ago. But what caught my attention as you alluded to in your introduction was uh Kashkarai's comments around the neutral rate.
And here uh it's very uncertain Um but this is the rate where um the Fed theoretically is trying to get to eventually or where rates will eventually settle. Uh and uh there's just a lot of uncertainty here.
What does the latest FLMC projection suggest about the neutral rate and future Fed cuts?
When you look at the FLMC projections from last week, I think that neutral dot ranges for anywhere between two point four to three point eight. And indeed there's been an upward shift. So looking at the most recent one, seven of eighteen FLMC members have dots at or higher than 3.25% neutral. And so that's quite important in terms of where longer term yields can go. And uh just worth noting that the US tenure yield has been pretty stable ever since that FMC meeting, currently hovering around that 3.74% mark.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are today's headline market moves and expectations for the US dollar, China repo cut, and RBA decision?
0:14–1:41
2
Why did oil prices drop while gold continued to rise?
1:41–3:31
3
What does the latest FLMC projection suggest about the neutral rate and future Fed cuts?
3:31–6:06
4
How are rising service‑sector input costs influencing the US inflation outlook?
6:06–8:23
5
Why is the UK economy outperforming Europe despite weak Eurozone PMI?
8:23–10:35
6
What new economic policies is Kamala Harris set to announce this week?
10:35–12:41
7
What does China's recent repo‑rate cut and liquidity injection signal for its 5% growth target?
12:41–14:55
8
Why is gold reaching new all‑time highs amid geopolitical tensions?
14:55–16:26