It’s a longstanding tradition of corporate culture for anyone booked on a long-haul flight to do their last task before departure half-arsedly, so a co-worker has to clean up the mess.
Louis set last week’s chart quiz. At pixel time he’s on a flight to FTAV’s New York pub quiz , meaning I’m the co-worker and here’s the mess:
That’s US total NFPs and starting the line at Q2 2020 was a cheap trick.
“Coffee”, says Louis by email, without elaborating. Maybe it’s the International Coffee Organisation ’s composite arabica price? Though that’s priced in cents, not dollars, as is the ICE US C1 coffee futures chain , so maybe it’s a Dunkaccino , or an espresso martini at JFK’s Centurion Lounge. Who knows?
That, apparently, is the spread between NFP monthly change and Bloomberg consensus. What’s going on with the Y-axis though? We’d ask, but Louis is probably watching Aquaman at 38,000 feet and is too cheap to pay for in-flight wifi.
No correct answers this week. No wrong answers either. The charts were quite frankly rubbish. Let’s spin the wheel:
Time well spent. We’ll try again on Friday.