August Jobs Surprise & Wall Street Desk Workbench LIVE BENCH

CNBC Nonfarm Payrolls Shock Model & Rates Transmission Engine

Consensus Impact: Labor market resilience dims outsized Fed easing, anchoring soft-landing narrative while pressuring duration assets.
Payrolls Surprise
+75K
Surprise Pct
+50.0%
2Y Yield Shift
+9.4 bps
25bp Cut Odds
78.2%
50bp Cut Odds
8.5%
Hold / Pause Odds
13.3%
S&P 500 Dur. Sens.
-0.62%

Surprise Scrubber Parameters

225K
Consensus: 150K | Prior: 114K
4.1%
Sahm Rule Threshold: 4.3%
+0.35%
Annualized wage pressure indicator
-15K
Historical August negative revision bias
Street Scenario Presets
Transmission Model: Calibrated against historical empirical beta (2018–2024 Fed funds repricing per standard deviation NFP surprise).

FOMC Next Meeting Rate Odds Implied %

50 bps Cut: 8.5% 25 bps Cut: 78.2% Hold (0 bps): 13.3%

Wall Street Desk Asset Shifts Modeled Beta

Instrument Desk Transm. Shock Shift
UST 2-Year Yield Policy Sensitivity +9.4 bps
UST 10-Year Yield Term Premium / Growth +5.2 bps
U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) Rate Differential +0.48%
S&P 500 (Rate Sensitive) Discount Factor Pressure -0.62%
Cyclicals / Small Caps (R2K) Growth Resilience Offsetting +0.31%

Desk Intelligence & Multi-Strategy Readout

Rates & Fixed Income Desk Hawkish Repricing

Front-end curves are bearing the brunt of the adjustment. Traders are aggressively taking the 50 bps opening salvo off the table, solidifying 25 bps as the path of least resistance.

Equity Macro Strategy Factor Rotation

Valuation compression in long-duration tech is partially countered by breadth improvement in financials and industrials as immediate recession fears recede.

Foreign Exchange & Cross-Border Dollar Support

Short-dollar carry unwind stalls. Yield advantage against EUR and JPY widening again as global central bank easing paths diverge.

Estimated Sector Payroll Contributions August Dispersion

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