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Bloomberg on Friday wrote about how this is a market that is ‘confounding the pros’ because of mixed macro data.
I’m not sure I disagree. There’s certainly a large portion of market participants that were wrong about US inflation falling (though they were write about it falling globally) but when I step back and look across asset classes, there’s a consistent narrative.
It certainly has been a market that’s taking it one data point at a time and the volatility has been tough but I don’t see any big mysteries about what’s moved markets in the past six month.
Of course it’s not easy, it never is (though 2021 certainly felt that way). What’s next? It’s still about the Fed here as inflation stays stubbornly strong, particularly in services. There are tentative signs of slowing growth but it’s a big week for economic data with non-farm payrolls and both ISM reports.