For their topic of the week, Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau (20:51) delve into the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), conducted monthly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The hosts kick off their review of the Oct. 3-7 market week with a positive but volatile showing for stocks (3:05), round-tripping yields in the Treasury market (4:46) and a 5% rally in commodities (8:31) led by double-digit gains in the energy complex following OPEC’s decision to cut crude oil production by 2 million barrels a day. Looking at the week’s macro news (11:55), they take note of unanimously hawkish public comments by four different Fed officials, including the once-dovish Neel Kashkari, and Friday’s strong employment reports. The week ahead (32:49) promises a raft of important data points, including the September Producer Price Index on Wednesday Oct. 12, the September Consumer Price Index on Thursday and the University of Michigan 5-to-10-year inflation expectations survey, a reading that is on the radar of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
Mr. Mayberry joined DoubleLine in 2009. He is a Portfolio Manager on DoubleLine’s strategic commodity strategy while working in portfolio management and trading for derivatives‐based and multi‐asset strategies. Mr. Mayberry is a Strategist on the Fixed Income Asset Allocation Committee and a contributing member on our Global Asset Allocation and Macro committees. He also co-hosts DoubleLine’s weekly Monday Morning Minutes (Twitter @DLineMinutes, Minutes@Doubleline.com) podcast. Prior to DoubleLine, Mr. Mayberry was a Senior Vice President at TCW for nine years within the Mortgage Group, where he specialized in portfolio and fund monitoring and analytics. He holds a B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College and an M.S. in Financial Engineering from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.
Mr. Lau joined DoubleLine in 2009. He is a Strategist on the Fixed Income Asset Allocation (FIAA) Committee and a contributing member on the Global Asset Allocation and Macro Committees. Mr. Lau is a Portfolio Manager on DoubleLine’s strategic commodity strategy while working in portfolio management and trading for derivatives-based and multi-asset strategies, including DoubleLine's Shiller Enhanced CAPE®, Shiller Enhanced International CAPE®, Real Estate and Income, and Multi-Asset Trend strategies. He also co-hosts the Sherman Show (Twitter @ShermanShowPod, ShermanShow@Doubleline.com) and Monday Morning Minutes (Twitter @DLineMinutes, Minutes@Doubleline.com) podcasts. Prior to DoubleLine, Mr. Lau was a Vice President at TCW where he worked under Jeffrey Gundlach as a Research Analyst in the Mortgage Group. He holds a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
