US: Americans Unwilling To Pay More For 'Made In America' - Morning Consult
Morning Consult reports in a new survey report on US consumer habits: “Since early 2025, the Trump administration has wielded tariffs to incentivize domestic manufacturing and reshoring. Declining enthusiasm for “Made in America” products among U.S. consumers will pose headwinds for companies that ultimately follow suit.”
- The report notes: “Compared with the 59% of U.S. consumers who say they seek out "Made in America" products at least some of the time, far fewer — only 2 in 5 — say they are willing to pay more for them. Companies serving younger consumers and women will face the greatest constraints, while those serving older consumers and especially Republicans will be better positioned.”
Figure 1: “Shares of U.S. adults who say they are willing/unwilling to pay more for "Made in America" products”
Source: Morning Consult
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FED: NY Fed To Run Regular Morning Standing Repo Ops
The NY Fed announces that (as has been the case for the last couple of month- / quarter- ends) that it will run a daily morning overnight Standing Repo Facility (SRF) operation (0815-0830ET) starting Jun 26, in addition to the usual afternoon SRF ops (1330-1345ET). Announcement here.
- What is unusual is that there is now no end-date to these operations - this announcement confirms what NY Fed SOMA manager Perli said last week, along with the reasoning:
- "The SRF is an important facility, but it is not frictionless. Our SRF counterparties have mentioned some features of the SRF that discourage its usage even if market rates exceed its minimum bid rate. One such friction is the fact that SRF auctions are carried out and settled in the afternoon, while most repo market activity takes place in the morning. Afternoon auctions are important because they can provide cash later in the day should a need for liquidity arise when most repo market activity has already taken place. Still, that does not mean additional earlier SRF auctions cannot be helpful....in the not-too-distant future the Desk will start implementing daily morning SRF operations that will also be settled in the morning. This will be an important step in enhancing the efficacy of the facility, and, at the margin, it can contribute to a smaller SOMA portfolio than would otherwise have been the case."
- Daily aggregate size for the combined operations is $500B.
- On the margins this should be helpful for market functioning at times of distress, but given such limited takeup of the morning SRF in the last couple of quarter-end windows, and the fact that the NY Fed telegraphed this decision previously, there shouldn't be much of a market reaction.
MNI: Fed should take cautious approach - may minutes
- MNI: FED SHOULD TAKE CAUTIOUS APPROACH - MAY MINUTES
- FED: WELL POSITIONED TO WAIT FOR MORE CLARITY ON OUTLOOK
- FED: TARIFFS BOOST RISKS TO INFLATION, EMPLOYMENT
EURGBP TECHS: Fresh Short-Term Cycle Low
- RES 4: 0.8557 High Apr 28
- RES 3: 0.8541 High May 2
- RES 2: 0.8493 High May 9
- RES 1: 0.8447 50-day EMA and a key near-term resistance
- PRICE: 0.8387 @ 16:19 BST May 28
- SUP 1: 0.8373 Low May 27
- SUP 2: 0.8359 1.236 proj of the Apr 11 - 16 - 21 price swing
- SUP 3: 0.8316 Low Mar 28 and a key support
- SUP 4: 0.8277 1.618 proj of the Apr 11 - 16 - 21 price swing
A bear cycle in EURGBP remains in play and a fresh cycle low yesterday reinforces this theme. Resistance to watch is at the 50-day EMA at 0.8447. A clear break of this average is required to highlight a stronger reversal and shift attention to resistance at 0.8541, the May 2 high. On the downside, a resumption of the downtrend would pave the way for a move towards 0.8359, a Fibonacci projection.
