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Fed Back-To-Back 50bp Hikes 60% Priced

STIR FUTURES
  • Pricing of Fed hikes has ratcheted higher overnight, with Fed Funds showing 192bp of hikes for the remainder of this year (174bp prior to Powell yesterday and 160bp after last week’s FOMC).
  • Immediate pricing has 42bps for May and 81.5bps for June, the latter implying a 61% chance of 100bp of hikes over the two meetings.
  • GS overnight changed their Fed call to back-to-back 50bp hikes in May and June (from 25bp previously) whilst still starting balance sheet reduction in May, leaning on the shifting in wording from moving “steadily” to “expeditiously”.
  • They see this followed by 25bp hikes at the four remaining meetings plus three quarterly hikes in 1Q-3Q23, leaving their terminal rate unchanged at 3-3.25%.

Fed Funds FOMC-dated implied rateSource: Bloomberg

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