Gareth Soloway argues the latest jobs report is being contradicted by market signals, especially the 10-year yield and the dollar, which he says are acting as if the economy is weaker than the official numbers suggest. He uses charts in Treasuries and major FX pairs to make the case that the bond market is “screaming lies” about the reported strength in US data.
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Gareth Soloway opens by asking whether the jobs data is “fake,” arguing that the market itself appears to distrust the report. He notes that multiple labor-market figures came in better than expected—nonfarm payrolls, unemployment, average hourly earnings, U6, participation, and private payrolls—and says that despite this, the 10-year yield did not rebound in a way he would expect if the data were fully believed. He frames the key point as a divergence between reported economic strength and market behavior. In his view, the sharp drop in the 10-year yield ahead of the report, followed by a failure to recover after the stronger-than-expected numbers, implies that bond traders are discounting the accuracy of the jobs data. …
Near term, the setup is about whether the 10-year yield and the dollar keep ignoring the stronger jobs print. If they stay weak into CPI, the market is signaling that growth fears dominate the headline data.
Over the next few weeks, the base case is continued pressure on the dollar and Treasury yields unless inflation data or Fed messaging forces a repricing. The key invalidation would be a sustained rebound in yields and DXY that shows traders believe the labor numbers after all.
Structurally, he is arguing for a weaker-dollar regime tied to softer US growth, more Fed easing, and gradual dedollarization. In that framework, market pricing may increasingly diverge from official economic prints whenever the two conflict.
The bond market is signaling that the latest jobs data should not be fully believed.
He says the 10-year yield fell sharply and failed to rebound after stronger-than-expected jobs numbers, which he interprets as disbelief in the report.
The jobs report showed broad improvement versus expectations across payrolls, unemployment, earnings, U6, participation, and private payrolls.
He explicitly lists multiple indicators as better than expected or better than the prior month.
There is underlying weakness in the US consumer and economy despite the headline jobs data.
He cites average people feeling the economy is poor and says credit card spending growth has shifted away from middle-income households.
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