Market anxiety rose three weeks ago, and remains elevated.
The Dollar’s Role: Prospects
From D. Fried, CBO Working Paper (summary):
Real Wages, Overall and Leisure/Hospitality
Decidedly up in the latter, even up relative to 2022M02 in the former.
The Shape of Things to Come? Consider this Time Series
Guest Contribution: “The Fed is Back on the Curve”
Today, we present a guest post written by David Papell and Ruxandra Prodan, Professor and Instructional Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Houston.
Business Cycle Indicators, Incorporating the Employment Release
With the employment release, showing a deceleration in employment growth despite the upside surprise in April’s number, this is the picture of the series the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee (BCDC), plus monthly GDP from S&P Global Market Intelligence (SPGMI) formerly Macroeconomic Advisers.
Of Nowcasts and Revisions
Don’t pay too much attention to the headline change in employment.
Mortgage Spreads
Productivity and Costs in Q1
Productivity growth underperforms (-2.7% vs. -1.8% Bloomberg consensus, q/q AR), while unit labor costs surprises on the upside (+6.3% vs. +5.5% consensus, 3.3% previous).
Thirty Year Mortgage-Treasury Spread
From FRED, a maturity matched spread (as well as 30 yr -10 yr Trsy).