{"id":225265,"date":"2025-06-05T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/?p=225265"},"modified":"2025-06-06T03:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:40:29","slug":"stocks-not-fretting-payrolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/stocks-not-fretting-payrolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks Not Fretting Payrolls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this morning, when we actually had a negative sign in front of the day\u2019s change for the S&amp;P 500 (SPX), I got a few questions about why we might have been trading lower.&nbsp; Concerns about the economy seemed to be the answer after yesterday\u2019s weak ADP and ISM Services reports combined with higher Jobless Claims and Unit Labor Costs this morning.&nbsp; Despite the run of bad news on the labor front, options traders nonetheless still appear to be sanguine ahead of tomorrow\u2019s monthly jobs report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About that prior bad news: it is hard to read anything particularly positive into yesterday\u2019s numbers.&nbsp; The ADP Employment Change was a mere 37k increase, below both last month\u2019s 60k and far below the 114k consensus estimate.&nbsp; That could be glossed over somewhat because ADP is at best an imperfect predictor of Nonfarm Payrolls (see graph below), but the ISM Services Index fell into contraction at 49.9, below last month\u2019s 51.6 and the 52.1 consensus, and the ISM Services Prices Paid component rose relatively sharply to 68.7, well above the 65.1 level which was both the prior month\u2019s reading and the consensus estimate.&nbsp; Bonds charged ahead on those reports, with yields falling about 8bp across the curve, as those traders focused more on the slowing economy than the higher prices paid.&nbsp; Stock traders seemed confused, with <a 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