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Locked and loaded for the May edition of non-farm payrolls

Happy jobs Friday. I’m tempted to dismiss this report as unimportant because the Fed is in a casual wait-and-see stance but a tipping point in an economy is like Hemingway’s description of bankruptcy: Suddenly and then all at once. Lululemon late yesterday cut guidance citing a ‘dynamic macroenvironment’…

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White House: No plan for Trump call with Musk

No plan for Trump call with Musk. In a brief call tonight with Politico, Trump said that things with Elon were going well. White House aides also reported that they scheduled a call Friday with Musk to broker a peace. This is not necessarily a bad news. There…

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Forexlive European FX news wrap: Awaiting the NFP report

What is the distribution of forecasts for the US NFP? ECB’s Centeno: We successfully overcome inflationary process BoJ is said to consider smaller reductions to its bond buying Eurozone Q1 final GDP +0.6% vs +0.4% q/q second estimate Eurozone April retail sales +0.1% vs +0.1% m/m expected ECB’s…

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