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Datanotes Weekly Monitor Emerging Asia
- The jump in June education jobs is more likely to be revised away than to unwind over coming months.
- June education jobs were revised down in 2022, 2023 and 2024; no other data corroborate the 2025 jump.
- A structural break following a mid-2024 methodology change makes the Michigan survey hard to believe.
Services disinflation is partly countering the tariff uplift to goods prices.
A knock-out punch to the tariff inflation deniers.
- The slowdown in consumption this year has been sharpest in areas dominated by higher earners...
- ...Slower asset price gains and expected real wage declines have weighed more than tax hike risk.
- Mortgage applications have risen sharply; people are fed up waiting for mortgage rates to fall.
Committee is more clearly split; weaker labor market to tip the balance by September.
Plunging response rate raises big questions about reliability.
- June private payrolls ex-education and healthcare rose just 23K; revisions will reveal an even weaker picture.
- Hiring intentions remain depressed; new tax breaks are unlikely to offset tariff costs and uncertainty soon.
- The drop in unemployment looks like noise; payroll growth will undershoot the break-even rate in H2.
A big jump in services inflation still looks unlikely.
Implausible sector breakdown highlights ADP's uselessness.
Supply-side disruptions giving way to weak demand.
- Spending fell by 0.3% in May, with little chance of a June rebound, and further weakness likely in Q3.
- The 0.4% fall in May incomes was due to one-time factors, but real income growth is set to stagnate.
- The core PCE deflator surprised to the upside in May, but the 0.18% rise will pale in comparison to June.
GDP on course for a misleading jump in Q2.
IMay slump brings sales back to reality.
Inflation expectations dropping back, labor market still weakening.
Sales likely to continue to stagnate.
- Real income growth has already slowed significantly, and will grind to a halt as tariffs boost consumer prices.
- Spending growth likely will soften too; households’ balance sheets are less supportive than post-Covid.
- We expect growth in consumers’ spending to slow just 1% by Q4, down from nearly 3% in Q1.
Demand still falling amid high mortgage rates and elevated uncertainty.
Underlying sales volumes holding up...for now.
Holding on to Q1's gains, for now.
