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Fed Rate Path Cools From Post Retail Sales Highs, Bostic To Remain Hawkish?

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  • Fed Funds implied rates have pulled back a little further from yesterday’s highs, with March having fully unwound the retail sales boost and end-2024 pricing unwinding about half of it.
  • Cumulative cuts: 16bp for March, 64bp for June and 144bp for Dec.
  • The implied 3.89% effective rate for end-2024 is down from 3.95% seen just before the Fed’s Beige Book, but is still 22bps higher than pre-Waller.
  • The Beige Book noted little or no change in economic activity since, with nearly all districts citing one or more signs of a cooling labor market and some increased consumer sensitivity to prices.
  • Bostic (’24) has two appearances on the economic outlook today, with brief remarks and Q&A at 0730ET before prepared text but no Q&A at 1205ET. He has recently seen fewer cuts than the FOMC median, starting in Q3 with 50bps in 2024 (median 75bp), and on Sunday told the FT he expects “to see much slower progression on inflation moving forward”.

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