JOBLESS CLAIMS: EXPECT A ROUGH SPOT AHEAD

06/09/11 09:15AM EDT

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End of QE2 Presents Risks for Claims

At the end of QE1, claims stopped going down.  When QE2 began, claims started falling again.  While this model may be simplistic, it's shown to be effective over the last two years, as the chart below shows.  When the Fed has the spigots on, the market has climbed and claims have dropped.  In the drought between QE1 and QE2, claims tread water.   We have been watching the charts below for several weeks with a sense of unease, and we expect that the end of QE2 in a few weeks will present another choppy period for claims.

 

JOBLESS CLAIMS: EXPECT A ROUGH SPOT AHEAD - fed and claims

 

JOBLESS CLAIMS: EXPECT A ROUGH SPOT AHEAD - s p

 

JOBLESS CLAIMS: EXPECT A ROUGH SPOT AHEAD - s p and fed

 

JOBLESS CLAIMS: EXPECT A ROUGH SPOT AHEAD - XLF

 

Claims Rise 5k

Initial Claims rose 5k to 427k last week (+1k against the upwardly-revised print from last week).  The 4-week rolling average dropped slightly, falling 3k to 424k.  According to our model, claims must drop into the 375-400k range before unemployment can begin to improve.

 

JOBLESS CLAIMS: EXPECT A ROUGH SPOT AHEAD - rolling

 

JOBLESS CLAIMS: EXPECT A ROUGH SPOT AHEAD - raw

 

JOBLESS CLAIMS: EXPECT A ROUGH SPOT AHEAD - NSA

 

2-10 Spread 

We track the 2-10 spread as a proxy for NIM.  Thus far the spread in 2Q is tracking 11 bps tighter than in 1Q.  This week's spread level of 257 bps compares to 250 bps last week.  

 

JOBLESS CLAIMS: EXPECT A ROUGH SPOT AHEAD - spreads

 

JOBLESS CLAIMS: EXPECT A ROUGH SPOT AHEAD - spreads qoq

 

Financials Subsector Performance

The chart below shows the price performance of subsectors over four durations.

 

JOBLESS CLAIMS: EXPECT A ROUGH SPOT AHEAD - perf

 

Joshua Steiner, CFA

Allison Kaptur

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