🚨MARKET PRICING SIGNALS A 100% PROBABILITY OF US RECESSION🚨
The market is currently pricing in over 2.00% Fed rate cuts within 12 months, the most since the Financial Crisis.
This implies a 100% probability of a recession in the next 12 months, according to Goldman Sachs.
On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will downward revise jobs for the April 2023-March 2024 period by up to 1 million. This means that all "beats" recorded in the past year will have been misses and the US job market is in far worse shape than the admin would admit.
Goldman's Jan Hatzius is out this morning with a piece entitled "Why Wait?"
He writes: "While September remains our baseline, we see a solid rationale for already cutting in July."
"if the case for a cut is clear, why wait another seven weeks before delivering it?"
One thing to note: the unemployment rate of 4.3% was boosted 0.2% by people on temporary layoff which increased by 249,000. This is mostly due to Hurricane Beryl, so expect the unemp rate to slide back to ~4.1% next month.
CAUTION: Job openings have been falling off a cliff
Such sharp declines have only occurred 3 times since 2000:
- Dot Com bubble
- Financial Crisis
- Pandemic
Each of them ended with a sharp economic downturn
The worst part: This is happening when the consumer has already run