Jobs, growth, inflation and tech earnings.
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What are the headline economic themes for the US, Japan and Europe today?
Well we've got news around jobs, growth, inflation, tech earnings, that's all. Job openings in the US are down, unemployment in Japan is down, and growth in the Atlanta Fed GDP now has been revised down. And we're away US and European GDP today for inflation. Well, European inflation today and tomorrow. But more importantly, Australia's CPI today and tech earnings, well a lot of them today and tomorrow. What more do you need really? All that and the UK budget and Kamala Harris gives their closing address in Washington. I'm exhausted already. It is Wednesday, the thirtieth of October 2024. It's the morning call from NAB. Good morning. Well, US equity is very mixed this morning at the close. The Dow is down naught point four percent, the SP is up naught point two percent, the Nasdaq up naught point eight percent, but the Russell two thousand down nort point three percent.
In Europe, markets closed down broadly, naught point four percent lower for the Eurostocks fifty, uh point eight percent lower for the FTSE one hundred. Yields going up again, just one basis point for ten year treasuries, but it's up again, up to four point two nine percent. That's fifty four basis points up in a month. Bigger moves up in yields in Europe though, up five basis points for ten year bunds in Germany, up six in the UK, seven in France and Italy. Aussie ten years were down four basis points to four point four four percent yesterday, now on futures up to four point five percent. So that's six basis points higher. And the US dollar is slightly up on the DXY. The Aussie is down half percent to sixty five point five.
five US cents. The pound is up 0.2%. The euro is looking pretty flat. Not much movement with the yen either. The Swiss franc down 0.3%. And oil lower again, 0.3% off WTI, half percent off Brent, down to 71 a barrel now. And it's Taylor Nujan who joins me from NAB in Melbourne this morning. The big number overnight was the US job openings, the Jolts numbers, 7.4 million open
How did the latest US JOLTS job‑openings data compare to expectations?
openings in September, uh down from a revised seven point eight six million in August. That seven point four million million figure though, that is quite a lot below the the market expectation, which was you know that it could be up to eight million.
Yeah, yeah. Good good morning, Phil. The Joltz number's the the pick of the data, but you know, we didn't see too much market reaction to it. A kind of a a short lived uh dip in dip in yields in in the US off the back of that, you know, headline fall in in job opening numbers, but that did kind of creep higher uh again. Um I think that, you know, if we were looking for something emphatic here about, you know, some as a a a confident signal on the labour market ahead of that. That likely weather affected payrolls print at at the end of this week, we we didn't get it. Vacancy vacancies or openings did did fall and quite a long way below consensus. So, you know, at face value, that suggests that you know there probably is some underlying trend cooling in the background there.
Other indicators in the survey, you've got the quits rates down down to one point nine percent. So, you know, continuing to suggest that people don't feel comfortable quitting and that's running a more around kind of twenty fourteen, fifteen levels than even that pre-pandemic labour market we saw in twenty nineteen. On the other hand, and consistent with that you know stronger uh payrolls number that we got in in September, the hiring rate did tick higher to to three point five percent as well. So some mixed signals there. I think for me, one thing to be cautious of with the job openings data and probably you know playing into the the limited uh data reaction that we saw. As well as some stronger consumer confidence numbers at the same time, which we'll touch on in a second, is you know, in the weeds of these measurements, um, the openings data are a point estimate at the end of the month, whereas some of these, you know, the quits rates, hiring rates, these sorts of flow measures are throughout the whole month.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the headline economic themes for the US, Japan and Europe today?
0:01–1:54
2
How did the latest US JOLTS job‑openings data compare to expectations?
1:54–4:56
3
What does the mixed US labour‑market signal mean for Fed policy?
4:56–8:11
4
How does the Atlanta Fed’s revised Q3 GDP‑Now forecast affect growth outlook?
8:11–11:21
5
Why are global bond yields rising and what does it mean for upcoming auctions?
11:21–13:18
6
What are the implications of Japan’s falling unemployment rate for BOJ policy?
13:18–14:38
7
Will today’s Australian CPI release change the RBA’s timing on rate cuts?
14:38–15:21
8
Which tech earnings are on the calendar and why are they market‑moving?
15:21–15:25