FO Analysis: The Floor Held. Again.
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The shorthand: core m/m 0.2% (soft, vs 0.3% consensus), headline y/y 4.2% (the base-effect re-acceleration, dead on), the 2-year unchanged at 4.14%, the 30-year holding 5.01% above the floor, gold off 2.4% on higher real yields, the dollar firm, the VIX higher, and an AI complex that was already selling into the print and that a dovish core could not rescue. A soft core is necessary for a dovish turn. It is nowhere near sufficient.
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2TO4Q · High · constrained-Fed regime, multi-quarter horizon
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Energy
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