• Traders pricing third rate cut by December. Appropriate?
    Scarlet Fu
  • Alex Wolf
    No. In line with one cut. January inflation noisy with seasonality. Jobs show underlying strength/troughing in labor market pointing to needing less cuts. Today's action may be overreaction to one month data.
  • Seasonal pattern where year starts strong then fades. Discounted?
    Scarlet Fu
  • Alex Wolf
    Jobs data skewed to healthcare with seasonality. Revisions possible. January data has lots of seasonality especially in core services CPI. Hard to make big judgment call off January data.
  • Call this 'buy more world rather than sell America'?
    Scarlet Fu
  • Alex Wolf
    Not seeing outflows from US but pickup into ex-US flows to Europe, Japan, EM. Dollar question interesting: fundamentals/rate differentials point to firmer dollar. Saw disconnect after liberation day - dollar weaker than models expected, then returned. Question: fundamental shift in global allocation or will dollar return to fundamentals pointing to rangebound/firmer dollar.
  • What do you think about Treasury demand?
    Scarlet Fu
  • Alex Wolf
    World has shortage of safe haven assets. China Q4 shows record current account surpluses in East Asia. That surplus has to be recycled somewhere unless they want currencies to appreciate (they don't). Creates bid for Treasuries despite fiscal deficit concerns.
  • China instructing banks not to load up on Treasuries?
    Scarlet Fu
  • Alex Wolf
    Some is signaling. Official holdings on decline but Treasury holdings in other official institutions/state banks steady or increasing. Haven't shied away from Treasuries as much as headlines suggest.
  • Market under-pricing inflation risk from tariffs?
    Scarlet Fu
  • Alex Wolf
    No. Some categories haven't seen full pass-through. Pass-through different from 2017-18 trade war - absorbed across channel (exporters, corporate margins, then consumer). Think most categories passed through to consumer by year-end. Some delay but won't upset inflation view overall.
  • Worried about data integrity?
    Scarlet Fu
  • Alex Wolf
    Not something we spend lot of time worrying about. Hard to know if cutbacks affected BLS specifically.
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