Jobs a plenty
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Why did the strong US non‑farm payrolls surprise reduce expectations for rapid Fed rate cuts?
Well there are jobs are plenty in the US it seems. So is all the talk of the need for faster rate cuts now out of the window? Probably. It's the slow controlled glide into a soft landing. So a repricing on the bond markets, equity still holding up. Some would say it's the ideal outcome. So what else can we take from it? It's the morning call from NAV for Monday, the seventh of October, twenty twenty four. Good morning. Well, the dollar shot up half a percent on Friday on release of that non-farm payrolls number. Uh more significantly, ten year treasury yields up twelve basis points, up twenty-one basis points for two years. We saw a fifteen basis point rise in Aussie ten year futures as well, and 0.7% drop in the value of the Aussie dollar on Friday, one point six percent low over the week.
The yen fell almost five percent last week. The Kiwi dollar was down two point nine percent over the week as well. Really, only the US dollar was Climbing last week. It didn't hurt equities, though. The Nasdaq finished the day up 1.2%, the Dow is up 0.8%, the SP up 0.9%, but the ASX 200 closed down 0.7%. But that was before all the action, of course, so we can assume that there will be a bit of a correction this morning. Meanwhile, the big winner last week, the Hang Sang up 10.2% over the week, the CSI 300 up 9.5% after all of this hope around China. And in the commodity space, WTI was up nine percent over the week last week, less than one percent on Friday though. Brent was up eight point four percent.
It finished the week just over seventy-eight a barrel. Iron ore and gold both down about naught point four percent on Friday, though. So quite a response to the non farm payrolls. Quite a response. Uh I'm assuming this has uh blown out any chance of a a big cut by the Fed this year, but let's see what.
How did the payroll surprise affect global bond yields and currency markets?
What Nabs Taylor Newton says uh he joins us from Melbourne today where they are not on holiday, still hard at it. Someone's gotta keep Australia running. So uh yes, Taylor, two hundred and fifty four thousand new jobs uh from one hundred and fifty nine thousand last time, and that last time number was uh an upward revision in itself, so lots of jobs around it seems.
Yeah, good good morning, Phil. Another big payroll surprise. Another day where we're holding the fort from Melbourne with um with Sydney on holiday. It was only a couple of months ago we had that surprise in the other direction. Um we were we were doing a similar thing. Um but yeah, as you say, uh um you know a big reaction in markets to, you know, what was a a strong payrolls number. Um kind of everywhere you look in the report. This is a good number. We've heard from um Chicago Fed schools be after the report. And he called it a superb report. Um and I think that, you know, that reflects the wheel. Well
it's only superb if you d if you don't want interest rates to come down quickly. 'Cause presumably this means that you know, the the twenty five basis points is gonna be the maximum size of it, doesn't it?
Uh well yeah, I mean we talked on we talked on Friday the market near term pricing was certainly more aggressive than what we'd um heard framed from FOMC speakers. They were probably gonna need some more bad news to um you know to follow up with another fifty basis point cut and they, you know, very much didn't get that in in the in this data. So twenty-five basis points um looks, you know, a much more reasonable increment um with this data in hand. Um and market pricing has moved that way as well. So there was about a kind of a 35% chance of a 50 basis point cut priced going into the data that had already been kind of paired back over the course of the week. And now markets, you know, essentially fully priced with 25 basis points, but no more.
And that kind of over the next two meetings, um, cuts have been paired back to to 55 basis points. So you know, still, you know, more risk of of a you know another fifty basis point over the next two meetings than than you know skipping a meeting, um which is in market pricing at the moment, which you know has moved a long way towards what the FOMC participants were communicating out of the September SOMP, but you know, not all the way if we remember there.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did the strong US non‑farm payrolls surprise reduce expectations for rapid Fed rate cuts?
0:01–1:43
2
How did the payroll surprise affect global bond yields and currency markets?
1:43–4:00
3
What does the data imply for the Federal Reserve’s likely size and timing of future rate cuts?
4:00–6:16
4
How are average hourly earnings and wage growth influencing Fed caution?
6:16–8:11
5
What are the implications of the payroll data for other central banks like the BoE and RBNZ?
8:11–10:46
6
Why is the UK pound holding its ground while other G‑10 currencies weaken?
10:46–12:59
7
How might the RBNZ’s expected large cut affect equity markets and the Australian dollar?
12:59–15:16
8
What are the key take‑aways for investors looking at equities in a soft‑landing scenario?
15:16–16:49