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Fed Hike Path Maintaining Drift Higher

STIR FUTURES
  • Fed Funds implied hikes are unperturbed by European PMIs, with the Eurozone composite sub-50 for the second month running but a small beat (49.2 vs 49.0 cons) and a mixed UK PMI (50.9 vs 51.0 cons) for the preliminary August surveys.
  • It leaves 66.5bps priced for the Sept FOMC (slowly grinding nearer to the 70bps pre US CPI) whilst the 127bps to 3.61% in Dec and 145bps to a peak 3.78% in Mar’23 are at recent highs before a trimmed 35bps of cuts to end-2023.
  • US PMIs come into focus next whilst a Q&A with Kashkari (’23 voter) late at 1900ET is the last scheduled Fedspeak prior to Jackson Hole. He last called for rates of 3.9% by end'22 and 4.4% by end'23 as he maintains the more recent shift towards the hawkish end of the FOMC spectrum.

FOMC-dated Fed Funds futures implied rate at specific meetingsSource: Bloomberg

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