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10 March 2023
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- Employment: brisk payroll growth in Feb after a surge of 504,000 in January
- Wage growth: subdued increase
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8 March 2023
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- Trade balance: nominal goods deficit narrows slightly; services surplus narrows
- Job opening: down in January, but signaling still-firm demand for labor
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8 March 2023
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- While German IP data beat expectations, Bunds followed USTs higher as euro area Q4 GDP growth was revised down, German retail sales continued to decline, and an ECB dove restated the need for policy to be data-dependant and determined on a meeting-by-meeting basis.
- Gilts also made gains as a survey pointed to a further moderation in UK jobs growth.
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6 March 2023
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- European Green Bond Standard takes shape as co-legislators reach political consensus and compromise on key details.
- Limited primary market activity among SSAs, while FIGs continue to front-load funding requirements in a relatively conducive market.
- Secondary market spreads continued to widen in EUR as the market expects more rate hikes in the near term, while USD spreads tighten slightly.
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6 March 2023
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- Despite some soft euro area retail sales data, Bunds made losses as ECB hawk Holzmann called for a cumulative 200bps of additional rate hikes through to July.
- Gilts also made losses as the UK construction PMI surprised on the upside.
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3 March 2023
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- Bunds made gains as euro area headline PPI inflation fell sharply in January on lower energy prices, even though the detail hinted at a possible second-wind in certain core goods prices.
- Gilts made modest gains as reports suggested that the Chancellor will maintain the UK government’s Energy Price Guarantee from April, which will help lower profile of inflation ahead.
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3 March 2023
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- U.S. GDP in Q1: not so bad
- Fighting inflation: little progress thus far
- Productivity: back on pre-Covid trend
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2 March 2023
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- Bunds maintained a downwards trend as the headline euro area inflation rate edged lower but core inflation leapt to a new record high.
- Despite an easing in UK firms’ price expectations, Gilts also made losses as the BoE’s Chief Economist flagged that the economy had been slightly stronger and wage growth stickier than expected.
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