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Fed Peak Rate Makes Up Ground Vs European Counterparts

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Today is set to see the biggest widening of Fed terminal rate expectations vs ECB and BoE since Mar 20th (which was the Monday after the Credit Suisse-UBS tie-up weekend), when it jumped 11bp compared with changes of less than 2bp for European cen banks. That's excluding the Apr 7 nonfarm payrolls day, in which US yields jumped but European markets were closed.

  • There's no single catalyst for today's move, which reflects a combination of still-strong US data (Empire State Manufacturing) with a lack of market-moving European data, some risk-off in equities, and some payback from recent sessions in which ECB (in particular) hike pricing jumped while the US's was inert.
  • Peak Fed funds is 5bp higher today (5.12% effective Fed funds seen, 29bp from here, for the June FOMC), with ECB -0.6bp (3.77% depo by Oct, 77bp from here) and BoE +0.4bp (4.76% Bank Rate by Sept, 51bp from here).

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