Strong earnings, future concerns
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How did strong earnings from Microsoft and Meta boost US markets overnight?
US markets have been helped overnight by yesterday's strong earnings results, particularly Meta and Microsoft. The US ISM manufacturing numbers were better than expected as well, but maybe for the wrong reasons. And US jobless numbers showing a strong weekly rise as we wait for tonight's non-farm payrolls. That's the bad news today. And yet the number of expected rate cuts for the United States this year has fallen elsewhere. Big cuts to Japan's growth forecasts and retail sales, the big number locally. We'll tell you what we already know about that. It's Friday, it's the second of May twenty twenty five. It's the morning call from NAB. Good morning. And we've got earnings results from Apple and Amazon as well, which we'll come to at the end of the podcast.
But today, the US dollar quite a bit stronger. It's up 0.7% to 100.2% on the DXY. The Aussie is down a third of one percent to sixty-three point eight US cents. The yen is down one point six percent, with a naught point three percent fall in the euro and the pound down naught point four percent. It was a fairly strong day for US equities, although markets closed quite a bit. Bit below the session highs, uh the Nasdaq finishing up one point five percent, a naught point six percent rise in the SP, a naught point two percent high for the Dow. Uh difficult to tell for Europe because a lot of these share markets were closed for May Day, but the FTSE one hundred was flat on the day, so is the Eurostocks fifty.
Ten year treasury yields are up five basis points to four point two one percent, up four basis points for ten year guilt yields in the UK. Aussie ten years are up two basis points yesterday. At 4.18%, five basis points higher on futures overnight, and oil is also up. It's uh well, it's gained, but it's fallen away somewhat uh in the last hour or so. Up 1.4% for WTI and Brent. They were both up two percent not so long ago. Comics gold is down two and a half percent as well. So some positive spirits at play. Equities are up, uh uh bond prices down, oil up, uh the US dollar higher. what you might call a risk positive day. Why is that exactly?
Why did the ISM manufacturing index lift market optimism despite a decline?
Well here's Nabs Rodrigo Catrill. I mean a happy Thursday in the Northern Hemisphere. And part of it, I mean we talked about it at the end of yesterday's f uh f podcast. Tech earnings were really good. I mean we had beats for Microsoft and Meta So is that what's driving this newfound optimism? It l I mean it looks like it 'cause Microsoft is up over nine percent today. There's a clue.
Yeah, morning Phil. It's it's been a combination of of of both uh as you said, uh strong earnings reports from Microsoft and Meta and the ISM manufacturing index, which did decline, but uh nowhere near as much as what the market was expecting. So um and the details of of the ISM also were not as bad as expected. Um so so that kind of gave a bit of a boost to um to sentiment and and in particular it it it was a pretty significant repricing in terms of um Fed rate card expectations and as you mentioned uh a decent lift in in in yields in the US as well. So um it's been a combination of of those uh two two events really driving uh market uh action overnight. Um but you can't help but wonder, you know, maybe uh we are at that stage where the market is um for one, clearly very sensitive to to US data releases, uh but two, not sure the data yet is reflecting what is coming.
Well yeah, because this Well yeah, because this
is for April, isn't it? The ISM manufacturing number. And it's and it was expected to fall from forty nine to forty eight. They actually fell to forty eight point seven, so still down. But also, I mean, i is it is it holding up for the wrong reasons? Because a chunk of it was prices paid, wasn't it? Normally, uh, you know, the fact that uh prices paid is is high is normally good because it means people are prepared to pay more. That's a positive sign. But maybe this time uh people are paying more because they have to More than that. Yeah, because of t the because of the tariffs. I mean could that be happening?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did strong earnings from Microsoft and Meta boost US markets overnight?
0:01–1:55
2
Why did the ISM manufacturing index lift market optimism despite a decline?
1:55–3:47
3
What do the rising weekly jobless claims indicate for upcoming non‑farm payrolls?
3:47–6:13
4
How are tariff concerns expected to affect US data and market sentiment in June?
6:13–8:47
5
What is the impact of the latest Australian retail sales and trade surplus on the Aussie dollar?
8:47–11:15
6
How might the BOJ’s unchanged policy and yen weakness influence global yields?
11:15–13:49
7
What could the upcoming European inflation numbers mean for ECB rate decisions?
13:49–15:39
8
How are Amazon’s earnings and forward guidance shaping tech sector expectations?
15:39–16:54