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Fed Funds Ahead Of Bullard

STIR FUTURES
  • Ahead of Bullard (2022, hawk) speaking again at 0830ET, Fed Funds futures are pricing 40bps for Mar 16, near where they plateaued after Thursday’s CPI before hitting 50bps on inter-meeting hike fears which have since largely fallen away.
  • Further out, 96bps is priced for Jun 15 and 159bps for 2022 as a whole.
  • Danske Bank this morning revised their rate call to 200bps for 2022 from 125bps previously, starting with 50bps in March.

Most recent Fedspeak:

  • George (2022, hawk): Speaking Fri but published today… it’s too early to say whether should hike 50bp but market pricing paves the way for the discussion; the Fed has to be “systematic” and “it is always preferable to go gradual”.
  • Daly (2024, dove): Speaking again yesterday in a more direct pushback to Bullard, she still supports rate liftoff in March and then favours watching data with the need for hikes to be measured.

Fed Funds futures pricing for March meeting (yellow), June (white) and Dec (Green)Source: Bloomberg

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