Morning Bid: S&P500 wipes post-election gains as bonds haunt

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(Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan

Wall Street’s S&P 500 index has all but wiped out its post-election gains, weighed by bond markets fearful of an inflation and interest rate resurgence if the hot economy gets stoked by President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.

With the fourth-quarter corporate earnings season about to unfold from Wednesday, the S&P 500 clocked another 2% loss for the week and closed on Friday less than 1% from where it ended polling day on Nov. 5.

With bond yields and the dollar still chomping at the bit first thing on Monday, S&P500 futures are down 1% ahead of the bell and the VIX ‘fear index’ topped 22 for the first time this year – also back where it was on election day.

The latest cloud over the stormy new year market was rooted in ostensibly good news and another impressive U.S. employment report, where payrolls growth exceeded forecasts and the unemployment rate fall. That’s made it clear any lingering Federal Reserve concern about a softening labor market are wide.

If the jobs side of the equation is holding up or even tightening, then the Fed – and the Treasury bond market – now has to assess the risk of a re-acceleration of still above-target inflation.

That’s especially so as Trump plans for deportations of illegal migrants, and tax cuts and tariff rises are expected to aggravate the broader wage and price picture, while potentially adding public debt risks.

PIVOTAL MOMENT

Trump’s inauguration next week now stands as a pivotal market moment, with his Treasury Secretary pick Scott Bessent due for his Senate confirmation hearing this Thursday.

But we get a firm reality check on the inflation picture from Wednesday’s release of the December consumer price report, while Monday’s New York Fed survey of consumer inflation expectations will act as an appetizer.

With not even one full Fed rate cut left priced in futures markets for the whole year, the interest rate market is now toying with the idea that the Fed easing cycle is over after just 1 percentage point of cuts – with some now even murmuring about the chances that rates move back up from here.

The Treasury market has been running scared for over a month, with benchmark 10-year yields topping 4.8% early Monday for the first time since late 2023 – more than 40bps above the Fed policy rate.

In an extraordinary move, 10-year yields have now risen 115 basis point since the Fed began easing in September.

Two-year yields vaulted 4.4% for the first time since July.



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