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🇺🇸 June payrolls miss by half, but the six-month trend refuses to confirm it

Nonfarm payrolls rose just 57,000 in June against a forecast of 114,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, even as unemployment fell to 4.2% and the six-month hiring average held at 88,000, the strongest two-year pace on record.

🇪🇺 Eurozone unemployment ties its record low, and Lagarde now has the hawkish case she wanted

Eurozone unemployment held at 6.2% in May, matching its record low and beating the 6.3% forecast. That strengthens Christine Lagarde's hawkish case at the ECB's Sintra forum. Swiss inflation cooled to 0.5% annually, testing the SNB's refusal to go negative again.

🇪🇺 Eurozone unemployment ties its record low, and Lagarde now has the hawkish case she wanted
Eurozone unemployment held at 6.2% in May, matching its record low and beating the 6.3% forecast. That strengthens Christine Lagarde's hawkish case at the ECB's Sintra forum. Swiss inflation cooled to 0.5% annually, testing the SNB's refusal to go negative again.
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🇬🇧 UK growth is confirmed at 0.6%, but two Bank of England policymakers want a hike

UK GDP growth was confirmed at 0.6% quarter-on-quarter for Q1 2026, but the Bank of England's June minutes tell the sharper story: a 7-2 vote to hold rates, with two policymakers pushing for a hike as CPI held at 2.8%.

🇬🇧 UK growth is confirmed at 0.6%, but two Bank of England policymakers want a hike
UK GDP growth was confirmed at 0.6% quarter-on-quarter for Q1 2026, but the Bank of England's June minutes tell the sharper story: a 7-2 vote to hold rates, with two policymakers pushing for a hike as CPI held at 2.8%.
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🌏 Brazil's inflation payoff arrives as India's PMI cools from a sugar high

Brazil's IPC-Fipe consumer price gauge decelerated to 0.18% month-on-month in June from 0.45% in May, boosting odds of an August rate cut, while India's composite PMI cooled to 57.4 from a six-month high and South Korea's FX reserves slipped to $426.99bn.

🌏 Brazil's inflation payoff arrives as India's PMI cools from a sugar high
Brazil's IPC-Fipe consumer price gauge decelerated to 0.18% month-on-month in June from 0.45% in May, boosting odds of an August rate cut, while India's composite PMI cooled to 57.4 from a six-month high and South Korea's FX reserves slipped to $426.99bn.
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🇨🇳 The PBOC just cut rates without calling it a cut, and China's PMIs can't agree on the story

The PBOC quietly launched a new overnight lending facility priced 15 basis points below its benchmark rate on June 29, even as official manufacturing PMI beat forecasts at 50.3 while the private-sector RatingDog gauge slid to a three-month low of 51.7.

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