Weekly Market Outlook (July 15-19)

Upcoming Events,

• monday: Pristine Zealand Products and Services PMI, PBOC MLF, China Commercial Manufacturing and Retail Gross Sales, Eurozone Commercial Manufacturing, BOC Business Outlook Survey, Fed Chair Powell.
• Tuesday: Eurozone ZEW, Canada CPI, US Retail Gross Sales, US NAHB Housing Marketplace Index.
• Wednesday: Pristine Zealand Q2 CPI, UK CPI, US Housing Begins and Construction Lets In, US Commercial Manufacturing and Capacity Utilization, Fed’s Waller, Fed beige accumulation.
• Thursday: Australia Labor Marketplace Document, UK Labor Marketplace Document, ECB Coverage Options, US Jobless Claims.
• Friday: Japan CPI, UK Retail Gross Sales, Canada Retail Gross Sales.

monday

The PBOC is predicted to keep the MLF fee unchanged at 2.50%. Reuters reported that marketers believe the usefulness of the MLF rate will gradually diminish as the PBOC tries to increase the effectiveness of its interest rate haul. The PBOC recently introduced a primitive money control mechanism and Governor Pan Gongsheng recently said that the seven-day reverse repo charge basically “fulfills the function” of the principle coverage charge.

Tuesday

Canadian trimmed crude CPI y/y is projected at 2.8% vs. 2.9% prior, average CPI y/y life is projected at 2.7% vs. 2.8% prior. The BoC will likely need benign data to reverse back-to-back rate cuts in July as wage growth reached the highest labor market record at 5.6%. The market is predicting a 78% chance of a tariff cut in July and there is an upside fear in the knowledge that it could fall to more or less 50%.

United States retail gross sales M/M is estimated at 0.0% vs. 0.1% prior, life ex-vehicle M/M measurement is estimated at 0.1% vs. -0.1% prior. Client spending has been solid looking good, which is certainly what you might expect given real wage growth and a flexible labor market. We are also seeing some contagion in UMitch client sentiment, which may suggest there is likely to be a slight slowdown in client spending.

Wednesday

Pristine Zealand Q2 CPI Y/Y is forecast at 3.5% vs. 4.0% previously, the Life Q/Q measure is forecast at 0.6% vs. 0.6% previously. As a reminder, the RBNZ left the OCR unchanged at 5.5% in July but softened the language slightly, increasing market expectations of a rate cut by the end of the year. The reduction in primary charges is noticeable in October.

United Kingdom CPI Y/Y is estimated at 2.0% vs. 2.0% previously, Life M/M measurement is estimated at 0.1% vs. 0.3% previously. Core CPI y/y is estimated at 3.4% compared to 3.5% earlier. The market was predicting a 60% chance of a tariff cut in August, but this dropped to 50% after some sharp comments from the BoE’s tabloid.

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This means there is not much appetite for the first quarter in August unless the inflation data comes in extremely good or the inflation data paints an extremely bad picture.

Thursday

The Australian Labor Marketplace document expects jobs to be added by 20 thousand in June, to 39.7 thousand in May and the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 4.0%. The data should not be optional in terms of coverage expectations as everyone is waiting for the Australian Q2 CPI document on July 31.^{scheduled tribe},

The United Kingdom Labor Marketplace document expects 45K jobs to be added in June versus -140K in May and the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 4.4%. The point of interest will be on salary increases with middle income pre-bonus expected at 5.7% vs 5.9% ex and middle income pre-bonus 5.7% vs 6.0% ex.

This news should not impact expectations of the August BOE decision that much, but a softening in wage growth or unpleasant jobs data should raise expectations of further easing with a 49 bps cut in market pricing by the end of the year.

The ECB is predicted to keep interest rates unchanged at 3.75%. The Central Store speaker said several times that he could not commit to anything in July because he would have to wait for additional data. Due to this fact, it is going to be a non-event and actually the real meeting is in September. The market is planning to go back up to 46 bps of ease by the end of the year.

United States Jobless Claims remains one of the important notable releases to practice every day as it is a timely indicator on the state of the labor market.

Initial claims are looking very solid, within the 200K-260K field built from 2022 onwards and at the bottom of the cycle. On the other hand, forward claims were on a steady rise recently with the data printing ancient cycle highs every day (although we did see a pullback the previous day).

This suggests layoffs are not accelerating and lifetime hiring is more slow due to lower levels of employment. This is something Okular should stock up on. Initial claims on this day are 235K versus 222K previously expected, with no consensus for further claims on the generation of writing, although a previous study had seen a discount from 1856K to 1852K.

Friday

Eastern Core CPI y/y is estimated at 2.7% vs 2.5% previously. Inflation in Japan is largely on target and there are no strong indicators for a rebound. Japan has been striving to reach inflation for several years, so it is strange to see a tariff increase and it could overturn this achievement by tightening policy.

The data should not change much for the BOJ, which is expected to make fewer bond purchases through “substantial” amounts at the next policy meeting, where the market also projects a 58% chance of a fee hike.