About 87% of Americans are concerned about rising costs of household expenses.
Endogenous response: About 20-30% buying less as a result of higher prices , mostly amongst lower income families.
Via
@CivicScience
@axios
@SoberLook
The most traumatic
#jobsreport
ever:
- Payrolls fell 20.5 million in Apr
> largest decline ever
> more than 2* worst than during GFC
-
#unemployment
rate +10.3pt to 14.7%
- underemployment 22.8%
- participation rate -2.5pt to 60.2%
- wages +4.7% distorted by composition effect
🇺🇸Make no mistake
#inflation
is cooling & if anything the April CPI report indicates a broad disinflationary process as the main culprit for some of the apparent stickiness was a 4.4% m/m surge in used car prices.
Bank of England launches £65bn move to calm markets
Not sure many realize how close we got to a financial crisis in UK:
“At some point this morning I was worried this was the beginning of the end…not quite a Lehman moment. But it got close.”
🇪🇺Natural gas prices are down nearly 70% since late August with mild weather, reduced consumption and inventories near full capacity combining for a rapid correction
Chart via
@SoberLook
Prelim Current Employment Statistics revisions shows massive 501k downward revisions to nonfarm payrolls!
> largest since 2009
> largest revisions:
- retail (-146k)
- professional & business services (-163k)
- leisure and hospitality (-175k)
Japan scraps pacifist post-war defence strategy to counter China threat via
@FT
« Over next 5 years, Tokyo plans to spend ¥43tn ($313bn) to strengthen its defence capabilities, bringing military expenditure to roughly 2% of GDP matching Nato’s target »
US corporate
#profits
fell $4.7bn in Q3, following +$75.8bn in Q2, driven by domestic nonfinancial corporate profits & profits from abroad: 3rd contraction in last 4 Qs.
Profits -1.2% y/y w/ margins still compressed at 9.6% of GDP – having declined nearly continuously for 5 yrs
The November CPI print will likely show an
#inflation
acceleration toward 7% y/y with core CPI inflation moving toward 5% y/y.
Our 'MESSI' inflation outlook sees core inflation continuing to rise in the coming months & peaking in February 2022 around 5.3% y/y.
🚨 Professional news: Thrilled to announce that I'll soon be joining
@EY_Parthenon
as Chief Economist!
I look forward to an exciting new journey focused on driving
@EYnews
' global market agenda & addressing the real-world issues, opportunities & challenges CEOs now face!
Stock market is increasingly driven by a handful of companies.
The weight of the top five stocks in the
#SP500
has nearly doubled since 2013
via
@WSJ
@SoberLook
Nearly 30 million Americans say they "often" or "sometimes" don't have enough to eat -- a 5 million increase in late July alone!
via
@uscensusbureau
@adam_tooze
@SoberLook
🇺🇸
#JOLTS
: Job openings fell to lowest since Mar 2021 & hirings to low since Covid in November: point to weaker labor demand
⬇️Job openings: 8.79mn (-62k); low since 03/21
⬇️Hiring: 5.47mn (-363k); low since 04/20
⬇️Quits: 3.28mn (-167k); low since 02/21
⬇️Layoff: 1.45mn (-115k)
Thanks,
@roomrater
! 💯
📈Turns out my economist setup is not just great for numbers, but also for aesthetics!
To be honest, my secret weapon is my wife, the real decoration pro!👩🎨
#EconomistChic
#Perfect10
🇺🇸
#Jobsreport
: It may look good, but it ain’t!
Total +49k in Jan
- Private +6k
- Goods -4k
- Services +10k
- Gov +43k
🛑Revisions -159k
🛑Job loss relative to Feb: 9.9mn
🛑Share of
#COVID19
loss regained: only 56%
#Unemployment
rate: 6.3% (-0.4pt)
LFP 61.4% (-0.1ppt)
There are many different illustrations of this. But, comparing the US and Canada experiences reflects how poorly the US managed the
#COVID19
crisis
via
@SoberLook
@MaxCRoser
🏆Extremely pleased to have won the Consensus Economics Forecast Accuracy Award for the US 🏆
A great US Macro team effort via
@OxfordEconomics
.
Link to
@ConsensusEcon
awards:
🇺🇸This
#CPI
report leaves little doubt that the disinflationary process is well underway. Slower growth in final demand for goods and services, easing housing price inflation and moderate wage growth should combine in the coming month and lead to faster disinflation than expected
Where it's hot, and where it's hot...
Prices have risen the most in Midwest and South as inflation hits 30-year high
via
@WSJ
@sinoceros
@DannyDougherty
🇺🇸Surging mortgage rates have pushed the payment-to-income ratio (on a median priced home) to its highest level since the early 1980s
via Black Night
@SoberLook
🇺🇸 Auto sales fell to 13.3million units in December
Sales in 2022 were the weakest since 2011, and down 8% from 2021. While supply constraints were a key factor holding back sales in early 2022, demand softness is the key restraint today.
Chart via
@SoberLook
📊 Nonfarm business sector labor
#productivity
posted another solid advance in Q4 2023, +3.2%, as economic output +3.5% and hours worked increased a more modest +0.3%.
👏3rd consecutive quarterly gain of more than 3% – a feat that occurred once in the pre-Covid decade (in 2019)
« Inflation-adjusted median net worth jumped 37% to $192,900 from 2019 to 2022, according to
@federalreserve
Survey of Consumer Finances. That marked the largest 3-year increase back to 1989, and it was more than double the next-largest one on record »
⚠️It's not a savings dip, it's a plunge, and it's not sustainable.
▶️Points to a significant slowdown of consumer spending as the personal savings rate levels out at this historically low level around 3%