US shut for a week, gold over $4k, RBNZ ready to cut
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Why is the US government shutdown continuing and what are the potential impacts on workers?
The US shutdown continues with no end in sight. Just a threat from the president not to pay back salary to some furlough workers. Whilst New York Fed data shows US consumers expect prices to rise faster, and one in five low-income workers in the US expect to lose their job in the next 12 months. The RBNZ today, uh after the business sentiment survey yesterday, we'll also take a look at Aussie Consumer Sentiment, which took a backward step yesterday. Headens Day is the eighth of october, twenty twenty five. It's the morning call from Nab. Good morning. Well US shares are lower, being dragged down by tech with the Nasdaq down naught point seven percent, but also one point one percent off the Russell two thousand this morning.
A stronger US dollar, it's up a third of a percent on the DXY, the Aussie is down more than most, losing half a percent, down below sixty five point nine US cents. The yen feeling the pressure as well, it's down naught point eight percent. Ten year treasuries are four basis points lower at four point one one percent, much smaller moves in Europe though and Aussie ten year yields were up five uh yesterday to four point three eight percent. Uh this morning just two basis points lower than that, and oil lower, half percent off Brent, getting close to sixty five a barrel, sixty one fifty for WTI, which uh many seem to think is uh around the break even point for large producers in the United States. Uh so if it gets any lower then uh you know lots of companies are no longer viable and
Gold hit $4,000 for the first time. That is a 50% increase this year to date. So it is Nabs Taylor Nugent who joins us this morning from Melbourne. Seems like days since we've spoken, Taylor. Let's start with the uh the New York Feds inflation expectations survey, because consumers are expecting prices are going to rise 3.4% over the next year. That's
What does the New York Fed’s inflation‑expectations survey reveal about consumer price outlook?
It's two months where this has been rising, I mean it was down at three percent in June. So yeah, it's edging up though, isn't it?
Yeah, good morning, Phil. It's it's interesting. Um, you know, we did see inflation expectations in in that survey and and everywhere else kind of rising um initially after the kind of you know Liberation Day tariff announcements all the way back in April. But um, you know, those near-term inflation expectations in that survey at least kind of, you know, peaked in in April, May and have been kind of coming back down. But um, yeah, certainly uh this month it was an extended. of what had been kind of, you know, a rise that has been over a couple of months, kind of back up towards levels of of what we saw uh immediately after that that initial tariff impact. So certainly uh suggesting that, you know, a little bit more concern about inflation is is creeping in uh for consumers.
So, you know, the the you know, the thing with inflation expectations is is always kind of, you know, no individual measure is really going to to shift the the Fed's uh perspective. But, you know, with that tension between uh the inflation that is above target and likely to stay there for for a while yet, even if the the inflation shock does ultimately uh prove to be kind of one off and inflation does eventually uh fall back, uh and the kind of, you know, signs of of cooling in the labor market. and labour market fragility that has got the FMC comfortable cutting. Um certainly a a bit of a a you know a bit of a warning sign on on inflation there that, you know, even if the Fed can deliver um a bit more easing through the course of this year, if those sorts of signs keep up unless there's some, you know, pretty obvious deterioration in in the labour market, then it's going to be difficult for them to do much more.
Yeah, well and yeah, you know, that the Fed survey also did look at jobs, doesn't it? So it asks the probability of losing a job and that's risen from fourteen point two percent in January up to fourteen point nine percent in this survey. But for those under fifty thousand, it's gone from fourteen percent in June to almost twenty percent in this survey.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is the US government shutdown continuing and what are the potential impacts on workers?
0:01–1:48
2
What does the New York Fed’s inflation‑expectations survey reveal about consumer price outlook?
1:48–3:50
3
How are gold prices reacting to market stress and why did gold break $4,000?
3:50–5:46
4
Will the latest New Zealand business‑optimism survey push the RBNZ toward a 25 bp or 50 bp rate cut?
5:46–7:39
5
What new details have emerged about the US shutdown’s timeline and the president’s back‑pay threat?
7:39–10:07
6
Which Fed officials spoke overnight and what does their commentary suggest about future monetary policy?
10:07–11:51
7
How is Australian consumer sentiment trending and what could be dragging it down?
11:51–13:39
8
What is the latest outlook for Canadian trade balances and how might US‑Canada tariff talks affect it?
13:39–16:39