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Fading Odds Of ECB Hike Post-July

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Cumulative ECB hike pricing through the September meeting has been tightly rangebound between 38-42bp since June 23, seemingly in search for a pre-July meeting catalyst to tip the balance toward just one more 25bp hike, or cement a second.
  • That catalyst may have arrived. The Knot comments this morning understandably haven't moved July pricing much (steady at 23.2bp), but with Sept pricing falling 2.5bp on the day, there is now only 15.5bp of hikes priced in Sept compared to July (at 38.7bp) - the least for Sept relative to July seen since mid-June.
  • A further 25bp hike in Sept is very much on the fence again, in other words.
  • Cumulative pricing for November points to just 43.5bp of further hikes over the next 3 meetings - a close here would be the lowest of the month.
  • And overall, the 5.5bp terminal price drop would be the biggest since Jun 23, to the lowest since mid-June at 3.95% (45bp of further hikes).

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