What Is Immaculate Disinflation, and Why Did It Cause Last Week’s Rally?
What’s in Today’s Report:
- What Is Immaculate Disinflation, and Why Did It Cause Last Week’s Rally?
- Weekly Market Preview: Does Economic Data Stay Resilient?
- Weekly Economic Cheat Sheet: Service Sector in Focus This Week
Futures are little changed as markets digest the Thursday/Friday rally amidst a mostly quiet weekend of news.
Oil prices are solidly higher (Brent crude up 1.7%) after Saudi Arabia announced a voluntary 1M bpd production cut for the next month, although that’s not seen as a sustainable bullish catalyst.
Economically, global service PMIs were mixed as the Euro Zone Service PMI missed expectations (55.1 vs. (E) 55.9) while the UK and Chinese service PMIs were in-line.
Today focus will be on the ISM Services Index (E: 52.0.) and specifically the price index in this report. Last week, a sharp drop in the ISM Manufacturing PMI Prices Paid Index ignited the rally, and if we see a similar drop in the services price index, it’ll help extend the rally as markets will get more confident disinflation is accelerating.
