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Fed Rate Path Dips Some More Despite Quartet Of Fedspeak

STIR FUTURES
  • Fed Funds implied hikes have picked off earlier session lows following multiple Fed speakers, after a beat for Philly Fed and initial claims were offset by weaker existing home sales earlier.
  • The 62bp for the Sept FOMC is up from the reaction to yesterday’s FOMC minutes but the cumulative 133bps to a terminal 3.66% in Mar’23 remains 4bps off post-minutes levels and further off brief high of 3.75% prior to the minutes.
  • Of the 2022 voters, Bullard looked through the CPI miss and explicitly called for a 75bp hike in Sept whilst keeping his prior rate call of 3.75-4% for year-end (https://marketnews.com/bullard-looks-through-cpi-miss-supports-75bp-hike) whilst George was more balanced as to how many more hikes could come (https://marketnews.com/george-strikes-a-balanced-tone-for-size-of-further-hikes).
  • Kashkari (’23 voter) followed up but didn’t really expand on prior, post-CPI views of wanting rates at 3.9% by year-end, 4.4% end’23, whilst Daly (’24 voter) started proceedings by seeing a 50bp or 75bp hike as reasonable for Sept whilst wanting to raise to a little above 3% by year, with it not clear if that’s new from the prior view of 3.4% by year-end.

FOMC-dated Fed Funds implied rateSource: Bloomberg

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