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BoE Seen Going Higher For Longer, While ECB Pricing Stagnates

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Today's post-UK jobs market price action, and parade of BoE speakers, have effectively added a 25bp hike to the BoE's tightening cycle, now seen peaking in Feb 2024 at 5.85% (up 28bp on the day, and 135bp from current rates).

  • That's higher and longer than previously expected - coming into today, the peak was seen arriving in Dec 2023. There's a chance seen of a 50bp hike this month (around 20% implied).
  • While an impressive increase, it's not even the biggest single day move of the past month for peak rate pricing, which was the +33bp on May 24 following much stronger-than-expected April CPI data; that was followed up by +18bp on May 25.
  • Meanwhile ECB policy is seen as much more predictable and peak hike pricing continues to effectively stand still: +1.5bp today to 3.80%, implying 56bp of further hikes in this cycle, including 96% probability of a quarter point raise this week (as seen in MNI's meeting preview).

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