Inflation eases and fears subside
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What is the impact of the Middle‑East ceasefire and US CPI easing on markets today?
Well, the biggest news this morning, a ceasefire in the Middle East, has had virtually no market response, but a much greater easing of risk and fear over the latest US CPI numbers. So does that mean that the Fed is going to cut sooner? And is it the same for the Bank of England as the UK inflation also eases? And today, Australian employment numbers. Do you remember how that unemployment rate actually fell last time? All of that, this Thursday morning, it's the 16th of June. January twenty twenty four. It's the morning call from Nab. Good morning. Well, the US dollar is down a bit again today, losing 0.2% on the DXY. Against that, the pound is up 0.2%. The Euro, though, down 0.1%. The Aussie is up 0.6%, up above 62.3 US cents now.
But huge moves in bond yields down fifteen basis points for ten year treasuries, down sixteen in the UK. Aussie ten years that were up one basis point yesterday.
In the US, up one point seven percent for the Dow, one point eight percent for the S P and almost two and a half percent for the Nasdaq in Europe, a one percent lift in the Eurostocks fifty at their close, the DAX is at one and a half percent, the FTSE one hundred up one point two percent, and oil up as well, a three point nine percent. Rise in the price of WTI, 3.2% up for Brent, up to almost eighty two fifty a barrel. Maybe it's the ceasefire having an impact there, but it took a while to respond if that is the case. And why up if supplies are suddenly more secure? So the good news is inflation on both sides of the Atlantic. The US and the UK have inflation down, or in the US case not up as much as expected for the headline rate, but the core rate.
Yeah, good morning.
the bond screens, which are the main thing I'm watching. Um in in my role are a sea of green this morning. Uh look, zero point two for the for the core CPI and a pretty comforting level of um of price levels acr really across all all the detail as well.
Which components caused the modest 0.2% core CPI drop and why were they significant?
Um nothing of it's not as if it was a case of uh a few volatile things generated the fall. It was sort of everything in moderation. So um look there was um Well there was a bit of sort of temporary support. I think vehic vehicles and air travel were were a little bit higher. So yeah, those things those things are amongst the volatile items. But that pickup in vehicles I've I've seen that attributed to probably a a little bit related to some demand for vehicles post the uh post the hurricane and and flooding events across the US a c a couple of months ago. So once again that's probably something that could be expected to ease. And um if you took those out, you'd be at zero point one. one three for the CPI.
So pr a pretty comforting number for the Fed and something that's um very comforting for for for for bond markets, hence quite a dramatic uh bull flattening of the US Treasury curve. Yeah. Yeah.
Which would indicate there's an expectation that the Fed is going to move quicker. I mean p presumably this puts pay pay to any talk of possible hikes that we're sort of starting to get uh whispers of in in some quarters. But uh uh you I assume that's not gonna happen now. Does it bring forward though the the schedule for cuts or is that taking things a bit too far from just one print?
Uh, market pricing has moved a a fair bit on that. We're now looking at um there there's about f nearly forty basis points of cuts priced across the remainder of well, of course this year. There's not that much of the year gone yet, is it? But um, you know, that was down as low as twenty seven, twenty eight basis points um at at the beginning of this week. So there's been a bit of a turnaround. So back towards pricing of more more chance of two cuts than one. Um Still marginal though, between the two, isn't it?
Why is there still no clear consensus on how many Fed rate cuts are coming?
Yeah, it's it's still pretty much sitting in the middle. So no no clear no no no clear consensus there. But certainly this number does um yeah, d does clear some of those fears of of of rate hikes being the next move, you know. There should probably still be some chance of that in your probability distribution, but um but much, much lower.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the impact of the Middle‑East ceasefire and US CPI easing on markets today?
0:01–2:06
2
Which components caused the modest 0.2% core CPI drop and why were they significant?
2:06–3:41
3
Why is there still no clear consensus on how many Fed rate cuts are coming?
3:41–5:57
4
How did the latest CPI data affect market fear and the VIX index?
5:57–7:52
5
Can the recent disinflation trend be sustained over the longer term?
7:52–9:58
6
What does Germany’s revised GDP figure reveal about Europe’s growth outlook?
9:58–12:22
7
Why is today’s Australian employment report critical for the RBA’s policy path?
12:22–14:38
8
What are the expectations for US retail sales and jobless claims this week?
14:38–15:56