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Canada Curve Increasingly Inverted

STIR FUTURES
  • BAX futures closed early to near where they finished last week in the whites and reds, but greens are increasingly inverted and back at post Jan26 BOC/FOMC levels.
  • Midway through the week, Dec whites priced an extra 10bp of hikes for 2022 before renewed geopolitical fears saw it unwind.
  • The curve continues to imply an aggressive rate path with more than 6 hikes in 2022 but has flattened a touch more in 2023 (Z2-Z3 at +40bps) and is then increasingly inverted in 2024 (Z3-Z4 at -13.5bps), with the usual caveat of very low volumes.
  • Specifically for the Mar 2 meeting, OIS pricing remains strong at 36bps whilst analysts appear to unanimously expect a 25bp hike with Dep Gov Lane’s language hinting as such.

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