Bond Traders Buckle Up for ‘No Landing’ After Jobs Surprise

  • Strong growth in payrolls sends Treasury yields surging
  • Risk is that growth, inflation keep Fed cuts in check

Workers unload bar-in-coil steel from a freight ship at the Port of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan.

Photographer: Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg
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The “no landing” scenario – a situation where the US economy keeps growing, inflation reignites and the Federal Reserve has little room to cut interest rates – had largely disappeared as a bond-market talking point in recent months.

It only took a blowout payrolls report to revive it.