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Analysts On Sept FOMC: Goldman Pushes Back Rate Cut View (1/3)

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From our September FOMC Review: despite the surprisingly hawkish Dot Plot at Wednesday's FOMC meeting, of 27 sell-side analysts’ reviews of the September FOMC meeting that MNI read, only one included a view change - Goldman Sachs, who pushed back their expectations for the first rate cut to 4Q 2024 (was 2Q 2024).

They write:

  • While the FOMC won’t hike this year (the new inflation forecasts leave ample room for a downside surprise), the September meeting raises the bar for rate cuts in 2024. Participants appeared to move away from the view that monetary policy tightening could weigh on growth with a long lag next year, which weakens one argument for cutting.
  • We think this means that inflation will have to fall further than we previously assumed for the FOMC to cut. And Powell volunteered that neutral rates might have risen, with S-R higher than the Dot Plot L-R– further weakening the case for cuts next year.
MNI-compiled Analyst views for the Fed's future rate path below (assumed unchanged from pre-FOMC unless we explicitly saw otherwise in the meeting reviews):

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