HALISTER1: Treasuries Signal Limited Price Action Into Low-Stakes Payrolls

Treasuries Signal Limited Price Action Into Low-Stakes Payrolls

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. rates options market is pricing a 1-day straddle on 10-year yields with a breakeven of about 4bps, one of the lowest payroll expectations this year, given the limited outcomes which would impact near term Fed pricing.
  • Beyond a much sharper-than-expected rise in hourly earnings, stakes will be higher at Aug. 24-26 Jackson Hole summit for signals on policy shifts which may see systematic vol sellers scale back this month, with seasonality seeing upside risk to vol
  • Short-dated implied vols typically rise in August with USD 1m10y seen increasing 0.38bp/day on average over the last five years; see seasonality here
    • This seasonality dynamic is likely due to low summer liquidity coupled with annual August Jackson Hole summit
  • NOTE: Tanvir Sandhu is an interest-rate and derivatives strategist who writes for Bloomberg. The observations he makes are his own and are not intended as investment advice
To contact the reporter on this story: Tanvir Sandhu in London at tsandhu17@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Ven Ram at vram1@bloomberg.net Anil Varma

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