The week moved from a quiet Federal Reserve backdrop and oil-led risk relief to a $125 billion Treasury refunding, mixed petroleum inventories, and a 23,000 decline in July payrolls with 103,000 of downward revisions to May and June. The completed-Friday USD Impact Score was −0.56, a soft-dollar cross-asset reading, showing that the broader weekly configuration remained soft even as Treasury yields supplied the largest firmer-dollar offsets.
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July payrolls declined by 23,000, May and June were revised down by a combined 103,000, unemployment was 4.1%, and participation was 61.4%. The July 29 Federal Reserve hold remained the policy anchor, leaving rates and the dollar sensitive to the full labor picture and the next inflation release.
Daily editions:2026-08-03 · 2026-08-04 · 2026-08-05 · 2026-08-06 · 2026-08-07
Treasury announced a $125 billion August refunding across 3-year, 10-year, and 30-year securities, including approximately $28.7 billion of new cash, while indicating that nominal coupon and floating-rate-note auction sizes should remain steady for at least the next several quarters.
Daily editions:2026-08-03 · 2026-08-05 · 2026-08-06
Oil fell as geopolitical risk premia eased early in the week. EIA later reported a 2.5 million-barrel commercial crude build alongside 1.6 million-barrel gasoline and 3.5 million-barrel distillate draws, leaving the energy-to-inflation signal mixed.
Daily editions:2026-08-04 · 2026-08-05 · 2026-08-06 · 2026-08-07
The reporting week began with limited fresh Federal Reserve information and an oil-led easing in geopolitical and inflation risk premia. Treasury then defined the funding backdrop with a $125 billion August refunding. By Friday, the labor report supplied the clearest macro development: payrolls declined by 23,000, prior months were revised lower by 103,000, unemployment was 4.1%, and participation was 61.4%.
The labor data carried softer-policy sensitivity through U.S. rates and the dollar, while Treasury supply and the upcoming refunding auctions kept liquidity and term premium in focus. The completed-Friday score remained in a soft-dollar regime. The news brief tracks verified developments and conditional transmission channels; the score measures the completed week’s configuration across eight standardized market inputs.
The score fell by 0.06 during the week and by 0.12 over four weeks. Gold and S&P 500 readings made the two largest softer-dollar contributions, at approximately −0.344 and −0.327. U.S. 10-year and 2-year Treasury yields provided the two largest firmer-dollar offsets, at approximately +0.209 and +0.156. Bitcoin and WTI also contributed on the softer-dollar side. The combined configuration therefore stayed below the −0.30 boundary separating the soft-dollar and neutral ranges.
The next confirmed tests are the August 11 3-year Treasury auction, the August 12 CPI release and 10-year auction, and the August 13 30-year auction. Inflation details, auction demand, yield tails, dealer allocation, and the breadth of the score’s eight component contributions will help show whether the week’s softer-dollar configuration persists or narrows.
This brief adds no new external event claims. It summarizes the five published Daily USD Impact editions for August 3–7 and the archived, deterministic USD Impact Score snapshot for the completed week ending August 7. Each daily edition retains its underlying primary-source and reporting-source ledger.
