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May employment report came in mixed with both NFP and UR increasing.

Again, no Wall Street analyst came nowhere close to guessing the headline number with the highest estimate missing it by 129K.

What does that all mean for the #Fed?

A thread.

1/11
NFP rose for the 29th M in a row with +339K which is 149K above consensus (+190K).

Apr number was revised up by 41K from +253K to +294K.

Total gain in Apr and May is +633K, 190K higher than expected (+443K).

#employment

2/11
At the same time UR jumped from 3.4% (cycle low) to 3.7%, the highest since Feb 2022 and the same as in Aug and Oct 2022.

#unemployment

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0.3 pp jump in UR is highly intriguing.

It is literally the highest jump in UR since Apr 2020 when the #economy was in a deep #recession caused by lockdowns.

Before that we had 1M jumps of that magnitude in 2008, before that in 2001... you get the pattern.

#unemployment

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In the details, gains were almost across the board with only manufacturing and IT recording net layoffs.

There was a noticeable pick-up in construction, transportation, education and health, leisure and hospitality, and government.

#employment

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AHE were up +0.3% or +3.96% annualized while Apr was revised down from +0.5% or +5.8% annualized to +0.4% or +4.7% annualized.

As I expected a M ago, they did end up revising Apr number down.



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AHE is now closer to where the #Fed wants it to be, maybe a still a bit above the desired level.

However, there is a possibility we end up seeing further downside revisions in AHE sometime in the M ahead.

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What does that all mean for the #Fed?

This report supports a pause bc +0.3 pp upside in UR can be worrisome, especially if it persists.

As I explained in my macro/market analyses (Marko's Brain Daily),

I don't think the #Fed will use this report when deciding rates.

8/11
Still, I think they will pause in 2W due to some other reasons mostly related to balancing a tricky path trying not to break anything in the coming W and M.

Now we come to the most important Q of them all - what will the #Fed do later in the year?

9/11
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10/11
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Mar 31
Feb #PCE, #Fed's preferred measure of #inflation, came in cooler than expected.

But 1M doesn't make a trend.

What does the #PCE tell and what it all means for the #Fed?

Let's dig deeper.

A thread.

1/
As I said in in the Jan #PCE thread, Jan reading looks a lot like Oct. Both were outliers in an otherwise deflationary trend since July.



#inflation

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#PCE services #inflation with real rent #inflation (ALNRI) has been quite tame since July 2022.

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Read 8 tweets
Mar 28
Time to update this chart.

With everything going lately this may be the single most important chart to look at.

What do the latest numbers tell us?

A thread.

#inflation

1/16
I made the quoted tweet on Feb 2 which was before Jan employment report, #CPI , #PPI and #PCE when most were still talking about great Dec numbers.

In the meantime most indicators showed higher #inflation numbers but, as I noted beforehand, that is only seasonality.

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As I suspected, some took advantage of these seasonality numbers and revisions of SA data (#CPI) to wrongly point to #inflation picking up.

And even worse, the #Fed embraced this false narrative and hiked 25 last week despite the ongoing banking crisis.

3/16
Read 16 tweets
Feb 25
Jan #PCE came in hotter than expected tdy.

After Jan employment report, #CPI and #PCE some have been calling for the #Fed to step up their hikes in order to solve the #inflation problem.

Should the #Fed do it?

A thread.

1/13
Before we go into the #PCE details, here is a comprehensive overview of the Jan employment report:


#inflation

2/13
Also here is a comprehensive overview of the Jan #CPI and what that means for the #inflation going forward:


3/13
Read 13 tweets
Feb 18
@LynAldenContact suggests Taylor Rule implies 10.2% FFR citing @stlouisfed FRED (#Fed).

Is 10.2% really what Taylor rule suggests the FFR should be currently at?

A thread.

1/13
Taylor Rule:

FFR = R* + 0.5 (GDP est - potential GDP) + 0.5 (inflation est - 2)

R* - natural interest rate (estimates vary from 2-2.5%); IOW FFR which is neither expansive nor restrictive

#Fed's Dec projections:

GDP est - 0.5%

Potential GDP - 1.8%

Inflation est - 3.1%

2/13
Assuming higher bound of the R* estimates, and #Fed's Dec SEP projections Taylor rule implies:

FFR = 2.4%

This is about 220 bps BELOW the current FFR!

And almost 800 bps BELOW that 10.2% @LynAldenContact quoted.

3/13
Read 17 tweets
Feb 13
The long awaited Jan #CPI report goes out tomorrow (Feb 14) at 8:30 am ET.

Lots of talks about BLS revisions of their seasonal adjustments and whether #inflation is picking up again.

So where will the #CPI print at?

A thread.

1/11
Friday BLS published revised figures for SA #CPI data 2018-2022 with recent figures gathering attention bc they were revised somewhat higher.

This sparked speculations whether they purposely did that to make future figures look lower than they otherwise would be.

2/11
First, I'm not going to speculate why they did it.

Second, I don't think it'll have a meaningful effect on the MoM basis.

But, contrary to what some think, on the YoY basis the new SA #CPI data shows higher chance of a higher number now then it did pre-revisions.

3/11
Read 12 tweets
Feb 3
Jan NFP came in 200K+ above the highest Wall Street estimate, UR came in lower than expected, while AHE came mostly in line.

How come Wall Street analysts were all so off?

What does that say about the labor mkt?

Let's dig deeper.

A thread.

1/24

#Fed

Before analyzing the final data, let me explain adjustments and revisions BLS does every Jan:
1) revisions to Establishment Survey data and
2) adjustments to population estimates of the Household Survey

#employment

2/24
NFP revisions were done only to reflect revisions of total #employment on Mar 2022.

This means that the Philly #Fed report that found 1.1M overstated jobs in Q2 is not reflected in these revisions.

This won't get reflected until Feb 2024.

3/24
philadelphiafed.org/-/media/frbp/a…
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