Rate-Cut Odds Surge After Soft US Labor Market Signals; Here's What Wall Street Thinks | Metals Mine

  • Rate-Cut Odds Surge After Soft US Labor Market Signals; Here's What Wall Street Thinks

    From zerohedge.com

    Rate-cut expectations surged this morning following the weak labor market signals from the payrolls report with 2025 now pricing in 3 full cuts... chart As we predicted, the chance of a 50bps cut in September are also rising, but for now it appears 25bps in each of Sept, Oct, and Dec is the most likely outcome... chart As The Wall Street Journal's fed Whisperer, Nick Timiraos, pointed out in a brief post on X: "Weak hiring this summer will make it easier for Fed policymakers to agree on a 25 bps cut at their meeting in two weeks but further muddies the debate over the pace of cuts after that." Consensus across ... (full story)

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Zebi
Sep 5, 2025 12:34pm
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https://x.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1964011974347362517

Today we learned the US economy has lost jobs for the first time since 2020. In other words, we haven’t seen jobs news this bad since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.

pistol pete buttigieg spot on makin fun of humpty LOL

where all the maga retards that wanted humpty for president LOL
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Trader#E363
Sep 5, 2025 1:13pm
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Cut all you like.. USA is on massive spiral down.. The world is quietly bailing out of the USD as their fiat.
Trump as done more damage than the MAGA muppets realize..
And when the stock market bubble goes boom, it will be a bloodbath..
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Trader#5554
Sep 6, 2025 9:28am
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Quoting Trader#B2BA
...Anyone watching the 2 year yield has known that for weeks.
Anyone who was listening to the news that counts also knew why that pricing was occurring at the time.



It all stems from 8 of Powell's words


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As we consider changes to our policy stance
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Trader#B2BA
Sep 5, 2025 11:32am
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“for now it appears 25bps in each of Sept, Oct, and Dec is the most likely outcome”

Thanks captain obvious. Anyone watching the 2 year yield has known that for weeks.
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