Steven Englander Market Quotations

Markets had already pretty much priced in (hikes in) June and September. He's sounding hawkish, but the market was already leaning that way anyway. So we're getting a bit of a move here, but nothing major.

Market sentiment has been shifting in the dollar-negative way for the last couple days.

What's happening with the dollar has little to do with the data. A lot of people were just caught on the wrong side when the euro broke below $1.2250. That had been the real signal for a lot of people in the market a couple of weeks ago, so now people are just covering their stops.

At the end of the day, it continues to suggest that the U.S. labor market is firm.