Cut Through the Market Noise: The Four Drivers of This Rally
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What’s in Today’s Report:
- Cut Through the Market Noise: The Four Drivers of This Rally
- Why Markets Rallied Despite Friday’s Hot Jobs Report
- Weekly Market Preview: Fed Speak, Growth Data and an Important Inflation Update
- Weekly Economic Cheat Sheet: Data Focused on Economic Growth and Inflation
Futures are modestly lower as Fed Chair Powell’s 60 Minutes interview is being taken as slightly hawkish.
Powell’s 60 Minutes interview is being framed as hawkish but in reality, Powell didn’t say anything new as this was his main message: Rates cuts are coming sooner than later, but a March cut is unlikely.
Economically, China’s January services PMI missed estimates (52.7 vs. (E) 53.0), reinforcing economic concerns.
Today focus will be on the ISM Services PMI (E: 52.1) and the key here is clear: This number needs to stay above 50 otherwise we will see growth concerns start to rise. There is also one Fed speaker today, Bostic (2:00 p.m. ET), but he shouldn’t move markets given Powell’s recent interviews.
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