Middle East Geopolitics, US Labor Resilience, and Hawkish…
Strong US jobs data has sparked dollar rallies and rate hike expectations, while geopolitical tensions and market volatility persist. Robust US Labor Market Drives Hawkish Rate Expectations The release of a “blowout” May Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) report, featuring 172,000 jobs added against an 85,000 expectation, has fundamentally altered the economic narrative. This labor market resilience
