Tuesday data: consumer funk gives Fed cut some cred
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TUESDAY'S DATA: CONSUMER FUNK GIVES FED CUT SOME CRED
From Tuesday's data, market participants learned that the American consumer, who carries about 70% of U.S. GDP on their shoulder, has grown grumpier since Labor Day.
And home prices keep growing, albeit at a slower pace.
The mindset of the American consumer has unexpectedly soured this month.
The Conference Board's (CB) Consumer Confidence index USCONC=ECI slid 6.9 points to 98.7, well shy of the 104.0 consensus.
"September's decline was the largest since August 2021 and all five components of the Index deteriorated," writes Dana Peterson, CB's chief economist.
Survey respondents' assessment of their current situation deteriorated by 7.7%, while near-term expectations dropped by 5.3%.
As a result the gap between the present and future outlooks narrowed, which is generally a good sign. It's when the gap widens that recession can be imminent.
"It's never good to see consumer confidence fall this much," says Jamie Cox, managing partner at Harris Financial Group. "Consumers are clearly concerned about the implications of the upcoming election, the increasing conflict around the world, and the stubbornly high cost of food and credit."
"The Federal Reserve seldom reads the tea leaves correctly on when and how much to cut rates, but 50 seems more correct in light of these data," Cox adds.
Attitudes with respect to the labor market turned more pessimistic.
"Views of the current labor market situation softened further," Peterson adds. "Consumers were also more pessimistic about future labor market conditions and less positive about future business conditions and future income."
The percentage of participants who said jobs are "plentiful" dipped to 30.9% from 32.7%, while those who said jobs are "hard to find" rose to 18.3% from 15.8%.
The difference between those two metrics ("jobs plentiful" minus "jobs hard o find") is now at its most dour level since March 2021.
Separately, home price growth in the United States continued to cool in July, according to CaseShiller.
The report's 20-city composite USSHPQ=ECI showed monthly and annual growth rates of 0.3% and 5.9%, respectively, marking a significant deceleration from June and landing just about where analysts expected.
A decelerating climb, however, is still a climb, and U.S. home prices, on aggregate, hit yet another record high in July.
Tight monetary policy has sent mortgages to the stratosphere, which has the double-whammy effect of pricing many potential buyers out of the market and dissuading potential sellers, who locked in lower rates, from putting their homes up for sale, resulting in a supply dearth.
"Sustained easing in interest rates eventually should be supportive of housing activity over time, and lead to a resumption of stronger house price increases," says Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics. "That will not happen fast. The prospect of much lower mortgage rates and construction finance rates in the year and more ahead will cause many purchases and projects to be deferred to a later date."
"Prices of homes are not falling, but they are slowing," Weinberg adds.
Among the cities in the 20-city composite, New York and Las Vegas were up most year-on-year, rising 8.76% and 8.24%, respectively.
(Stephen Culp)
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