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For US Fixed Income, Government, Corporate, and High Yield refer to the Bloomberg US Treasury, the Bloomberg US Corporate Credit, and the Bloomberg US High Yield indices, respectively. For European Fixed Income, Government, Corporate, and High Yield refer to the Bloomberg Euro Treasury Index, the Bloomberg Euro Corporate Index, and the Bloomberg Euro High Yield Index, respectively. Short, Intermediate, and Long refer to the Short, Intermediate, and Long segments of their respective curves. Quality returns refers to the credit quality of asset classes ranging from Government, highest quality, to High Yield, lowest quality. Since August 24, 2016, the Barclays indices are co-branded “Bloomberg Barclays indices”.
US Services PMI
(Cons: 58.5, Prior: 56.1)
US JOLTS Job Openings (Cons: 7.770M, Prior: 7.744M)
US ISM Non-Manuf PMI (Cons: 53.2, Prior: 52.1)
FOMC Minutes
US National Day Holiday
US Nonfarm Payrolls
(Cons: 154K, Prior: 227K)
US Unemployment Rate
(Cons: 4.2%, Prior: 4.2%)
US Avg Hourly Earnings MoM (Cons: 0.3%, Prior: 0.4%)
“PMI” refers to Purchasing Managers’ Index. “ISM” refers to the Institute for Supply Management. “MoM” refers to month-over-month. “BoJ” refers to Bank of Japan. “FOMC” refers to Federal Open Market Committee. “ECB” refers to European Central Bank. “BoE” refers to Bank of England.
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