Last Friday brought the blockbuster January jobs report:

Morgan Stanley snippet on that report:

  • triggered our move to a 25bp rate hike baseline for the March meeting

and:

  • significantly widened the distribution of possible policy outcomes

MS looking ahead:

  • Another circa 500k payrolls result would put a 50bps Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) rate hike "firmly on the table"

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Friday's NFP:

Nonfarm payroll
Nonfarm payroll rises by 517 K