Central bank policy, rates, FX, and global liquidity conditions.
Tracks policy divergence across the Fed, ECB, and BoJ against positioning data and cross-asset flows, looking for spots where consensus pricing lags the policy path.
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July PPI missed consensus on every measure: headline cooled to 4.69% y/y against a 5.0% forecast, core eased to 4.16% against 4.7%, extending June's downside surprise.
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July payrolls fell 23,000 with a 103,000 revision down as CPI held at 3.4%. Three FOMC dissenters cite Hormuz energy risk to the Fed's rate path.
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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's move to end forward guidance has lifted bond-market volatility even as equities shrug it off, with a cooling labor market and AI-capex warnings stacking up underneath a complacent tape.
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July CPI rose 0.1% m/m and held at 3.4% y/y, matching consensus, while core CPI eased to 2.5% annually, the lowest since early 2026.
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July CPI lands today as the swing data point for a Fed caught between a 9-3 hawkish FOMC split and the first payroll contraction in over a year. Here is the range of paths for Chair Warsh's committee.
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The Fed held rates at 3.50%-3.75% on a 9-3 vote, with three hawkish dissents. Core PCE and CPI remain well above target as gold and silver hit records.
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July CPI consensus expects 0.1% m/m and 3.4% y/y headline, 0.2% core, versus June's 0.4% drop. Here is how rates, the dollar, and gold would react.
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September Fed hike odds swung from near zero right after the July jobs miss to 55-63% by August 10, as Chair Warsh's hawkish rhetoric and an oil-price spike tied to Strait of Hormuz tensions outweighed the labor data. Wednesday's CPI print decides which story wins.
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Insider selling hit $77.6 billion in H1 2026 against $6.9 billion in buying, an 11-to-1 ratio, even as M2 growth and a Fed on hold keep liquidity abundant.
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July payrolls fell 23,000 and September Fed hike odds collapsed toward zero. The dollar hit a 7-week low as gold pushed near record highs.
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July nonfarm payrolls fell 23,000, the first outright decline this expansion, with a 103,000 combined downward revision. September hike odds collapsed even as core PCE held at 3.29% and M2 grew 5.53% year over year. Here is the labor-cracks case against the sticky-inflation case, and what the August 12 CPI print decides.
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The July Employment Situation produced a headline payroll contraction of 23,000 jobs, an 111,000 miss against the +88,000 consensus, while the unemployment rate fell a tick to 4.1% and wage growth came in at just 0.05% month-over-month.
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Fed Governor Lisa Cook signaled on August 6, 2026, she is prepared to raise rates if inflation does not moderate. With CPI at 3.7% and equities surging the next day, here is what the market is pricing and what it may be missing.
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The FOMC's 9-3 hold at 3.50-3.75% and three dissenting votes signal the Fed is closer to action than the headline suggests. With July CPI due August 12 and 54.5% September hike probability on CME FedWatch, this week resolves six months of ambiguity.
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July NFP consensus stands at +88K. Here is the reaction function across Treasuries, the dollar, equities, and crypto before Friday's 8:30 AM ET print.
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Consensus expects +88K nonfarm payrolls and 4.2% unemployment for July 2026. With June missing at +57K and the FOMC split 9-3, Friday's jobs report is the last key input before the September 16-17 Fed decision. Here's the reaction function.
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Friday's July Employment Situation report is the most consequential labor market data point before the Fed's September 16-17 decision. Consensus expects +88K payrolls and 4.2% unemployment. Here's the reaction function across rates, gold, equities, and crypto.
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US-Iran-Oman talks near a Hormuz corridor deal, pushing September hike odds to 57%. What it means for oil prices, CPI, and your portfolio.
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The Fed held at 3.50%-3.75% on July 29, but a 9-3 dissent and a Hormuz deal in progress have pulled September hike odds to 57%. One jobs print on August 7 could reset the whole calculus.
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The FOMC's 9-3 vote is the most divided since 2016. FRED data backs the soft-landing thesis. Friday's July NFP is the variable that decides September.
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Three FOMC members voted for an immediate rate hike on July 29, and CME FedWatch now prices a 56.9% probability of a September hike. With Q2 GDP at 1.5% and June payrolls at 57,000, the stagflationary data configuration puts the Fed in its most difficult position of the current cycle.
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South Korean equities slipped on August 5 even as July CPI cooled to 2.8%, its lowest in three months. The data reveals how a global repricing of AI capital expenditure is overriding conventional macro signals.
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June JOLTS job openings came in at 7.359 million, missing the 7.420 million consensus by 61,000. Combined with a downward revision to May and the June payrolls miss, the data describes a labor market cooling faster than anticipated.
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June job openings printed at 7.359 million, a 61,000 miss vs the 7.420 million consensus. With a downward May revision and payrolls already soft at +57,000, the demand-side picture has shifted ahead of the September FOMC decision.
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