For the 26th month in a row, US spending growth outpaced income growth with the latter rising just 3.7% YoY (the lowest since Oct 2017) and former rising 4.6% YoY (slightly faster than in Feb).
Which prompted a drop in the savings rate and a notable downward revision to the last two months (of notable conservatism) with Jan revised down from 3.2% to 3.0% and Feb down from 3.4% to 3.3% and now March at just 3.1%.
However, while income growth did disappoint (rising just 0.3% MoM vs 0.4% MoM expectations), wage growth was up a notable 4.4% YoY with private wages dominating government worker gains (+4.8% YoY vs +2.5% YoY).
Finally we note that Real Personal Spending rose a disappointing 0.4% MoM (versus 0.5% expectations)
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