Shoppers will pay: “Significant tariffs on China [would] have all sorts of wide-ranging implications—not only in the supply chain, but [in] the overall economy,”
The leveraged loan market is seeing Trump’s election as a “tailwind” for after-tax corporate profits, “through lower expected corporate tax rates, less regulation, and higher inflation.”
This is the slowest pace of hiring in the United States since 2020, but the unemployment rate remained low, as numbers were distorted by hurricanes and a major strike at Boeing.
Hurricanes and the Boeing strike likely drove payrolls lower in October, but the weak employment report keeps officials on track to reduce interest rates by a quarter point next week.