Good morning, macro enthusiasts. Here's your daily roundup covering the United States, Europe, and key emerging markets. We cut through the noise to deliver the essential facts, key surprises, and meaningful context from each region in one place.
🇺🇸 A hot payrolls beat and $100 oil have boxed the Fed in before CPI
US payrolls rose 162,000 in August against a 55,000 forecast, and markets are now pricing much higher odds of a Fed rate hike this month, just as oil prices topped $100 a barrel ahead of Friday's inflation data.
🇪🇺 The eurozone's GDP beat isn't a recovery; it's an import collapse dressed up as one
Eurostat revised eurozone Q2 GDP growth up to 0.6% quarter-on-quarter, but most of that gain traces back to a German import collapse and a distortive Irish GDP jump, not real demand, right before Thursday's expected ECB rate hike.
🇬🇧 Bailey denies a hike plan as gilts print their highest yield since 1998
The UK Debt Management Office sold £4.25bn of 2056 gilts at 5.82%, the highest yield since 1998, while BoE Governor Andrew Bailey denied any plan to hike, pointing to an energy-shock risk premium rather than policy tightening.
🌏 Oil's climb past $100 turns EM into a stress test, and Turkey goes first
Brent crude topped $100 a barrel and split emerging markets into winners and losers: Brazil's market rallied, Turkey's central bank was expected to hold rates at 37% on Wednesday, and Mexico logged a food-led uptick in inflation.
🇨🇳 Beijing lets the trade surplus do the talking while courts finally clear out dead property firms
PPI rose 3.8% year-on-year in August, and the trade surplus topped $100bn for a fourth straight month. But courts and the securities regulator just made a bigger move: letting insolvent property developers fail instead of propping them up.
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