Macro desk · Evening edition · Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Job openings rose to 7.52 million in September, so employers are still hiring and long-term borrowing costs have little reason to fall soon.
The 10-year minus 2-year Treasury spread fell 0.06 percentage points to +0.32, 3.0 times its typical daily change. The Treasury curve steepened between October 26 and November 2, with the 30-year minus 2-year spread widening by 6 basis points. The 3-year yield moved the most, down 14 basis points, to 4.65% on November 2.
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The 3-month yield rose 5 basis points on November 2, 5.0 times its typical daily move. The 2-year stood at 4.59% and the 10-year at 4.91%.
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The session did not change the regime, but it sharpened one point: the economy looks firmer than the stock market's mood. Job openings rose to 7.52 million in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics via CNBC, and the 10-year yield rose back toward 4.95. Money stays dear, and the labor market is giving it no reason to get cheaper. Meanwhile the index gains were narrow, with only 13% of tracked indices above their 50-day average.
Here is the mechanism. Job openings are the demand side of the labor market: more vacancies mean employers still want workers, which props up wages and spending. That leaves little reason for the policy rate, 3.88%, to fall soon, so long yields drift up when job data runs firm. Meanwhile Meta is seeking to raise up to $25 billion in bonds for AI, according to CNBC, adding to the supply of corporate debt competing for savings. Credit readings, though, show no strain: the high-yield spread was 3.43 points on November 2.
For workers, the openings figure points toward a labor market that is still hiring, which is the direction the data supports, though one release is not a trend. The jobs report in three days will show whether the unemployment rate, 4.2% in September, held or moved. CPI follows on November 10 and will show what a household pays for a basket of goods, with headline at 3.7% and core at 2.6% in the last reading. Those two prints, not one day's bounce, set the next leg for rates.
- The 10-year yield rose to 4.95 today from 4.89, so long borrowing costs edged back up after firm job openings data.
- The policy rate was 3.88% at its last reading and the 10y2y curve at 0.32 points leaves little pricing for early easing.
- The dollar index is 101.86, up 0.1%, so currency moves added little pressure to the rates picture.
- Job openings rose 333,000 to 7.52 million in September, so labor demand is firm going into Friday's payrolls report.
- Headline CPI of 3.7% against core of 2.6% implies energy is doing the work, so oil headlines matter for the next print.
- Inventory-to-sales ratios of 1.33 overall and 1.36 at retail are lean, so stock overhang is not dragging on growth.
- Financial stress at -0.58 and conditions at -0.49 on October 23 are looser than average, consistent with steady growth.
- The high-yield spread was 3.43 points on November 2, narrow, so credit is not pricing stress despite the tech selloff.
- Bank credit rose 143.0 billion dollars over four weeks and deposits 132.7 billion, so lending capacity looks ample.
- The Employment Situation report is 3 days away, on November 6, and would update the 4.2% unemployment rate from September.
- CPI is 7 days away, on November 10, and would update the 3.7% headline and 2.6% core readings.
- The regime reads restrictive but expanding, so risk is concentrated in AI-linked technology rather than spread across the whole system.
- Narrow breadth and a of 20.89, up 5.67% since first flagged, say risk appetite is cautious until jobs and CPI arrive.
The 10-year yield bounced to 4.95 after job openings, but remains well below early October's 5.28.
The dollar index has drifted within a narrow band near 102 for a month, so currency pressure is small.
The numbers behind it
Macro heat map
Rates, USD, Commodities and Inflation are never green and never red: each is favourable for one part of the economy and costly to another, so those cells show only whether the move was material.
Every move here is measured between two stored daily closes, so the reading belongs to a session rather than to a time of day. This block is cut at the 2026-11-03 session. Anything named as a driver comes from a stored series and never from a headline.
- Sentiment composite32+3neutral territory2026-11-03
- VIX20.83-1.51%2026-11-03
- S&P 5007,568.92+0.36%2026-11-03
- 10Y Yield4.95%+1.19%2026-11-03
- Dollar Index101.87+0.12%2026-11-03
- CPI Inflation4.1%+0.4moving away from 2%2026-10-01
- Core CPI2.9%+0.3moving away from 2%2026-10-01
- Unemployment Rate4.1%-0.12026-10-01
- Fed Funds Rate3.88%+0.002026-11-03
- 2s10s Spread0.34pp+0.02normal2026-11-03
Across the conditions
- The Fed funds rate was 3.88% on 2026-10-30 with no change over the month, so these labor and growth readings sit beside an unchanged policy rate and show no link to it yet.
- The readings do not answer the question yet, since the labor and growth data are from earlier dates and the Fed funds rate has not changed.
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