Sentiment update/The consumer, HD/Earnings picture/Small business/Overseas

As seen last Wednesday with the cooling of the extreme bullish sentiment, as it ALWAYS follows price, in the weekly Investors Intelligence survey, the Citi Panic/Euphoria index seen over the weekend did as well but still remains a touch in Euphoria territory. The extreme market positivity seen in early July was the perfect set up for a market pullback and the easing of that bullishness was needed.

Digging into yesterday's NY Fed's Consumer Expectations survey for July saw one year inflation expectations stay unchanged at 3%. The 5 yr guess was unchanged too at 2.8% but for some reason the middle 3 yr guess fell .6 percentage points to 2.3% which was the lowest since they have data back to 2013. I can't explain why the one and five yr forecasts were unchanged and the three fell so much but the NY Fed said "This decline was most pronounced for respondents with a high school education or less and those with annual household income under $50,000." Expectations for gasoline and food declined but was up for medical care, college and rents. Home price growth guesses were unchanged. 

Here were other things of note. "Delinquency expectations increased, with the average perceived probability of missing a minimum debt payment over the next three months increasing by 1.0 percentage point to 13.3 percent, its highest level since April 2020."

Expectations for a higher unemployment rate fell by 1 pt but expectations for income growth were down. 

Also, "Median household spending growth expectations fell by 0.2 percentage point to 4.9%, the measure’s lowest reading since April 2021."

On credit, "Perceptions of credit access compared to a year ago deteriorated in July, with the share of households reporting it is harder to obtain credit than one year ago increasing. However, expectations for future credit availability improved in July, with the share of respondents expecting it will be harder to obtain credit in the year-ahead decreasing."