After being utterly bombarded for weeks, newswire feeds at trading terminals are suddenly devoid of debt ceiling headlines. To be fair, there have been a few mentions of final approval set for this weekend, but markets moved on long ago. If there was any reaction in longer term rates, it played out by Tuesday night. Today's sell-off was all about nonfarm payrolls. Today's AM commentary has all of the charts and discussion on that topic. Today's recap is just here to let you know bonds continued selling into the afternoon with 5.0 MBS losing almost half a point.
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- Nonfarm Payrolls
- 339k vs 190k f'cast, 253k prev
- Unemployment Rate
- 3.7 vs 3.5 f'cast, 3.4 prev
- Participation rate
- unchanged at 62.6
- Earnings
- 0.3 vs 0.4 f'cast, 0.5 prev
- Nonfarm Payrolls
flat overnight. weaker after jobs data. 10yr up 3.8bps at 3.639. MBS down roughly a quarter point.
recovery attempt until 9:30am. Weaker since then. MBS down 3/8ths. 10yr up 6bps at 3.662.
Additional selling into the PM hours and flat since then. 10yr up 9bps at 3.689. MBS down just over 3/8ths.
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