Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau first review the week ended Dec. 8, 2023, for stocks (1:06), fixed income (3:00) and commodities (5:25) as well as macro news (8:12), including volatility around the week’s labor market prints. Then they take up the subject of yield curve control (15:41), the targeting by central banks of sovereign bond yields at specific tenors generally further out the curve from conventional short-term policy rates. Yield curve control was instituted by the Bank of Japan in September 2016. BoJ officials, Jeff and Sam note, appear to be prepping markets and the public for an end to yield curve control, perhaps ahead of anticipated policy rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Then Jeff and Sam look ahead to the week of Dec. 11-14 (29:07), whose calendar includes the November CPI report (Tuesday); PPI and Federal Open Market Committee meeting (Wednesday); retail sales, jobless claims and import prices (Thursday) and the S&P Global PMI surveys for manufacturing and services (Friday).
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