WHITE HOUSE: White House Press Conference Beginning Shortly

Yield curves continued to bear steepen Friday, 2s10s session high of 43.067 back to early March levels as bond yields climbed to 3.2338% high -- last seen early December 2018. Relative calm end to the week for a NFP session.

• Tsy futures bounced higher briefly, scaled back amid steady selling after Apr NFP jobs gained more than estimated +428k vs. +380k est, avg hourly earning little weaker than exp at 0.3% vs. 0.4% est. Total down-revisions to Feb-Mar -39k.
• Fed out of blackout: limited react to essay published by Minneapolis Fed Pres Kashkari: Long-Term Real Rates Are Already Back To Neutral. ""If the economy is in fact in a higher-pressure equilibrium, that might indicate the neutral long-term real rate has increased, which would then require even higher rates to reach a contractionary stance that would bring the economy into balance."
• MNI interview w/ Richmond Fed Barkin: interest rate increases are not on a preset course and he would like to see interest rates on a path to normal that is as fast as feasible, backing this week's historic FOMC decision to raise the fed funds rate 50bps, while not ruling out the potential for a supersized 75bp increase if needed.

Investment-grade corporate credit risk has see-sawed back near new 2Y highs tapped early Friday, closing levels well off midday lows as stocks traded modestly weaker: S&P E-Mini Future down 30.25 points (-0.73%) at 4113.75

• Investment grade risk measured by Markit's CDXIG5 index currently +3.464 at 86.919 vs. new 2Y high of 87.321 around midmorning; CDXHY5 high yield index at 100.813 (-0.837).
• Outperforming credit sectors (tighter or least wide): Financials - subordinated (-0.2) followed by Energy (+0.4).
• Lagging sectors (wider or least narrow): Utilities (+1.4) followed by Technology and Consumer Discretionary (+1.3).

Equity indexes weaker into the close are off session lows, upper half of range SPX emini futures, ESM2 currently -30.25 points (-0.73%) at 4113.75 -- near week opener of 4146.25.

• Earnings cycle past the halfway mark, resumes Monday w/ Duke Energy (DUK), Tyson (TSN) before the open, Trex (TREX), Int Flavor/Fragrances (IFF), Cargurus (CARG) after the close.
• SPX leading/lagging sectors: Energy sector extends earlier gains (+2.91%) O&G consumables outpacing energy and equipment serving names. Utilities sector follows (+0.81%). Laggers: Materials sector holding near lows (-1.40%) w/ construction materials shares lagging; Communications sector (-1.30%).
• Meanwhile, Dow Industrials currently trades -97.15 points (-0.29%) at 32901.08, Nasdaq -173 points (-1.4%) at 12144.66.
• Dow Industrials Leaders/Laggers: United Health outperforms (UNH) +5.10 at 499.82, Chevron (CVX) +4.00 at 170.26. Laggers: Home Depot (HD) continues to sag -4.47 at 294.64, Nike (NKE) -3.62 at 115.01.