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One half of Bloomberg's Odd Lots Podcast. One quarter of Light Sweet Crude.

May 12, 2021, 8 tweets

BOOM:

CPI comes in significantly higher than expected.

Core CPI up 3.0% from last year. That's vs expectations of 2.3%

On a month over month basis, we got a 0.9% core reading vs. 0.3% expected. That's the big one right there.

Futures falling
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Five year yields jumping a little bit here

Useful chart here showing the annualized pace of change in inflation right now

Full story from @readep

Inflation rises at the fastest pace since 2009 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@readep Incredible surge in used car prices

@readep Gold and Bitcoin both fall after the inflation print

@readep NASDAQ 100 futures down almost 1.5%

@readep This is the key thing here. Curve is flattening today. So market still sees this as transitory and not a sustained, new dynamic

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