PPI Reaction Playing Out Better Than CPI So Far

PPI Reaction Playing Out Better Than CPI So Far

Tuesday's CPI reaction was frustrating. Bonds rallied for an hour only to sell off for the rest of the day starting at 9:30am.  Things are off to a different sort of start today. PPI was a bit lower than expected and didn't immediately suggest a major tariff impact in the same way as some of the categories in yesterday's CPI. Imports themselves are not included in PPI, but if a domestic producer raises prices on something with tariffed components, tariffs would effectively be responsible for the increase unless the producer had a separate reason to raise prices. Bottom line: it was easy to see tariffs spilling over to several CPI categories yesterday, thus the reversal, but the worst offenders in today's PPI are distinctly domestic.  This likely the reason we haven't seen a similar reversal of the initial headline reaction (which was a modest rally).

Market Movement Recap
08:32 AM

Slightly stronger after PPI.  MBS up 3 ticks (.09) and 10yr down 2.4bps at 4.46

11:42 AM

Bonds selling off on headlines regarding Trump considering firing Powell.  MBS now unchanged on the day and 10yr nearly unchanged at 4.48

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7:00AM Jul/11 MBA Refi Index Jul/11 767.6 829.3
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8:30AM Jun Core Producer Prices MM (%) Jun 0% 0.2% 0.1%
8:30AM Jun Core Producer Prices YY (%) Jun 2.6% 2.7% 3%
9:15AM Jun Industrial Production (%) Jun 0.3% 0.1% -0.2%
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10:30AM Jul/11 Crude Oil Inventory (ml) Jul/11 -3.859M -0.9M 7.07M
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6:30PM Fed Williams Speech
Thursday, Jul 17
8:30AM Jun Retail Sales (%) Jun 0.1% -0.9%
8:30AM Jul/12 Jobless Claims (k) Jul/12 235K 227K
8:30AM Jun Retail Sales (ex-autos) (%) Jun 0.3% -0.3%
8:30AM Jul Philly Fed Business Index Jul -1 -4.0
8:30AM Jul/05 Continued Claims (ml) Jul/05 1970K 1965K
8:30AM Jun Import prices mm (%) Jun 0.3% 0%
8:30AM Jun Export prices mm (%) Jun 0% -0.9%
8:30AM Jul Philly Fed Prices Paid Jul 41.40
8:30AM Jun Retail Sales Control Group MoM Jun 0.3% 0.4%
10:00AM May Business Inventories (% ) May 0% 0%
10:00AM Jul NAHB housing market indx Jul 33 32
10:00AM Fed Kugler Speech
1:30PM Fed Cook Speech
6:30PM Fed Waller Speech
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