{"id":5321,"date":"2016-09-02T08:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T12:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thet3trader.com\/?p=5321"},"modified":"2016-09-02T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T12:46:56","slug":"august-nfp-report-instant-analysis-fed-fool-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2016\/09\/02\/august-nfp-report-instant-analysis-fed-fool-us\/","title":{"rendered":"August NFP Report Instant Analysis: Did the Fed Fool Us Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, did we just get fooled by the Fed again?<\/p>\n<p>Fed heads have been selling a super-hawkish narrative for weeks but today's job report was just a little bit shaky.<\/p>\n<p>The 151K headline number missed expectations by 29K.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps most importantly, average hourly earnings rose just 0.1% month-over-month, missing the 0.2% consensus.<\/p>\n<p>We're seeing a predictable reaction: gold is ripping, up almost 1%, and the <strong>gold miners<\/strong> (GDX) are up 4.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the US dollar is sagging and Treasuries are up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPX <\/strong>futures are now about 10 handles off morning lows. I'd have though they'd sag on the report because markets have acted as if they'd welcome a rate hike.<\/p>\n<p>Fed funds futures are now pricing in a 58% chance of a December rate hike, down from 60% earlier today &#8212; that's not much of a change.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, the Fed doesn't make decisions based on a single data point, so let's not go overboard.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, keep in mind that we often see multiple market reactions and counter-reactions on NFP days.<\/p>\n<p>We've already seen crude oil round-trip its reaction move and start yet another move:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t3live.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CL3r4344.jpg\" alt=\"CL3r4344\" width=\"539\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CL3r4344.jpg 539w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CL3r4344-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We could see ANYTHING by the close today&#8230; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thet3trader.com\/2016\/09\/01\/jobs-report-preview-volatility-explode\/\">even actual volatility<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, did we just get fooled by the Fed again? Fed heads have been selling a super-hawkish narrative for weeks but today&#8217;s job report was just a little bit shaky. The 151K headline number missed expectations by 29K. And perhaps most importantly, average hourly earnings rose just 0.1% month-over-month, missing the 0.2% consensus. We&#8217;re seeing a predictable reaction: gold is ripping, up almost 1%, and the gold miners (GDX) are up 4.5%. Meanwhile, the US dollar is sagging and Treasuries are up. SPX futures are now about 10 handles off morning lows. I&#8217;d have though they&#8217;d sag on the report because markets have acted as if they&#8217;d welcome a rate hike. Fed funds futures are now pricing in a 58% chance of a December rate hike, down from 60% earlier today &#8212; that&#8217;s not much of a change. Remember, the Fed doesn&#8217;t make decisions based on a single data point, so let&#8217;s not go overboard. And of course, keep in mind that we often see multiple market reactions and counter-reactions on NFP days. We&#8217;ve already seen crude oil round-trip its reaction move and start yet another move: We could see ANYTHING by the close today&#8230; even actual volatility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[228,224,147,92,89,142],"class_list":["post-5321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-uncategorized","tag-august-jobs-numbers","tag-august-nfp-report","tag-economics","tag-fed","tag-fomc","tag-nfp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}