Options Brief - Soft jobs, hard bounce - 3 July 2026
Koen Hoorelbeke
June payrolls missed badly, pushing the market's priced Fed hike out to December, while Korea's chipmakers rebounded sharply from Thursday's AI-valuation rout. With US cash markets closed for the July 4 holiday, the brief explains what Thursday's close and Friday's overnight reaction already tell options traders ahead of Monday's reopen.