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US: Leading indicators diverge – Westpac

According to Richard Franulovich, head of FX strategy at Westpac, for the US economy, last week’s data generally ran counter to bond market expectations for Fed insurance cuts as a robust +263k jobs in April confirms that there’s still plenty of sizzle to the US economy.

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“Last week also had some cautionary signals, though they were mostly ignored by markets. For example the April US ISM manufacturing index fell to a 2 ½ year low, extending a weakening trend in place since August 2018, while the services ISM defied expectations falling to twenty month lows.”

“These diverging signals for the US are increasingly apparent in other leading indicators too.”

“Against that the broad sweep of soft US survey data covering manufacturing, services and households points to a weaker profile.”

“A notably weaker trend appears to be taking hold, pointing to a period of sub-trend US growth, in stark contrast to the more upbeat signal from US financial conditions.”

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