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Following a day off, the pace of March economic data picks back up today with ADP’s March Employment Change Report and back-to-back looks at the March Services PMIs. For ADP’s report out at 8:15 AM ET, the market expects that report to 148,000 jobs were added during the month, up from 140,000 in February and 111,000 in January. We will also be examining the wage data contained in that report - while the year-over-year gains have been trending down of late, in February the median change in annual pay for Job-Stayers rose 5.1% YoY while for Job-Changers it was up 7.6%.

At 9:45 AM ET and 10:00 AM ET, the market expects Services PMI reports from S&P Global and ISM, respectively, to show that part of the economy continued to grow handsomely during March. Coming off the corresponding Manufacturing PMI reports for March that rekindled questions over the start of as well as the number of potential rate cuts this year, what this morning's data says about inflation will be key to how equities trade this morning. Comments following that data deluge from four Fed officials, including Fed Chair Powell (12:10 PM ET) are likely to shape this afternoon’s trading session. 

Heading into this swirl of data this morning, US equity futures point to a lower open, and the yield on the 10-year Treasury is up slightly to 4.367%. 

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