Friday Macros
Expect Non Farm Fireworks...Whisper 800...Biden to Speak at 10.15 ?????
The expectations for today's non farm numbers is 674,000 the whisper number is 800,000. There are only 4 expectations we saw above the average...GS at 750, Citi at 764, DB at 800, and Amherst at 700... Why is Biden speaking on the topic at 10.15?... Does he know the number?... Is it going to be a blowout?... We will take the over between the initial number and revisions...we think the last payroll report was plagued with far more technical issues, well beyond those who have decided to be on the government dole. Our view is that a number greater than 750,000 will put tapering front and center for discussions on the Fed calendar in two weeks... A number below 500,000 would put it lower in the discussion topic and would more than likely be punted until Jackson Hole...
Rates... If Biden knows the number or not, the street clearly does not know the number.. Equities and rates are doing nothing overnight, although we see the 30/50 year swap curve the most inverted on record... Hey Janet, time for a 50 year? For today the narrow range for the 10 year is 1.58-1.64... Feels like the levels will give way... So the wider range is 1.52-1.70... Ok the even wider range would be 1.47-1.77...but we doubt we reach that... But who knows... Lots of supply next week and the inflation and supply chain issues are at very stressful levels... 5 years remain key... Here we view the ranges of .77-.90.. The number after that would be 1.01 on 5 yrs... Doubtful for today... Our longer term reach for 5 years this summer is 1.25...
Equities... No clue for today... We do not think we have seen the highs for June . But we do see comparisons like Author of BB today, where he points out that US households are as heavily invested in equities as they were at the top of the market in 2000... Where historically most had far more wealth tied up in their homes than stocks, they are now overweight equities and underweight their homes...
Fed , while the Fed will start selling bond related etf's starting Monday and cash corporates later in the summer, that has not stopped new issues from coming to market... Depending on whose numbers you use, BB has 20 billion this week, Citi 24 billion, and our friends at ITC 33 billion (they count sovereigns) either way the corporate new issue binge is not slowing, at least not yet. The Fed Balance Sheet rose to another record last night rising to 7.936 trillion... That's a lot given the Fed B/S used to be under 1 Trillion... The hold holds 5.119 trillion of treasuries and 2.244 trillion of mortgages... If that is not monetizing the deficit than we do not know what is...
Expect a chop today... More than likely fade the first move... But it should be a barn-burner for the next 2 hours....