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- We estimate that most of the fall in payrolls since October has been driven by payroll-tax hikes.
- 35K of the payroll drop likely reflects mismeasure-ment, as workers switch to self-employed status.
- Job growth should ease as firms complete their adjustment to the tax hikes.
- In one line: A skin-deep reprieve, if at all, from waning underlying momentum.
- BLS data suggesting the foreign-born workforce is already rapidly shrinking look implausible.
- Sector-level payrolls in California and Texas suggest most undocumented workers remain in their jobs.
- A bird’s eye view of employment growth in the other 48 states and DC tells a similar story.
- Consumer-driven momentum and services strength supported Colombia’s Q2 growth, but industry lags.
- The fiscal deficit is on track to breach 8% of GDP, with no credible correction in sight.
- Disinflation is set to resume in Mexico and Brazil, but structural pressures and trade risks persist.
- Japan’s Upper House election is done and dusted; the coalition has now lost its majority in both houses.
- July’s 20-day exports held up on a WDA basis, despite the higher tariffs applied to Korean exports to the US.
- A preliminary US-Korea trade deal may be reached before August 1, but anything agreed will be general.
- The ECB will keep its powder dry this week, waiting for the September forecasts to decide its next move.
- The range of forecasts for the ECB’s policy rate next year has widened significantly.
We still see the deposit rate falling below 2% this year, setting up hikes by the end of 2026.
- Sticky wage and price gains are being caused in part by falling MPC credibility.
- Household inflation expectations sit higher than their relationship with inflation implies, and are still rising.
- The UK is an outlier in Europe, where inflation expectations seem to have behaved much better.
CONSUMERS’ SPENDING IS SLOWING...
- ...WEAKER PAYROLLS IN Q3 WILL EXERT FURTHER PRESSURE
The underlying trend in residential construction is flat and likely to turn lower.
Hard to trust given the rock-bottom response rate.
- In one line: Jobs falls are easing and pay growth is far too high to deliver 2% inflation, but the MPC seems keen to cut anyway.
- In one line: Prices will keep gaining as stamp duty disruption has further to unwind.
- In one line: Inflation is proving sticky, with most of June's acceleration looking genuine.
- In one line: A huge bounce in official retail sales is coming in June as seasonal distortions unwind.
- In one line: Potential future tax hikes hit hiring sentiment, but wage growth is slowing only gradually.
- In one line: Recovering as the Stamp Duty disruption fades
In one line: Down, but big revision to the April data suggests Q2 was good.
In one line: Japan's headline consumer inflation slows after energy subsidies restart; upper house election poses JGB risks
Japan's headline consumer inflation slows after energy subsidies restart
upper house election poses JGB risks
Low simply because auto plant shutdowns have been less prevalent than usual.
