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Fed Rates Await Claims And Other Pre-Thanksgiving Data

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  • Fed Funds implied rates have seen some recent intraday softening to leave them almost unchanged on yesterday’s close and after just before the FOMC minutes.
  • The path shows just 1.5bp of tightening for December, with a first cut coming in June (cumulative 32bp), a second in September (61bp but close in July with 46bp) and 92bp of cuts to end-2024.
  • Barclays no longer expects the Fed to raise interest rates in January, compared with an earlier forecast of a 25bp hike. Rates will remain unchanged until December next year, it said (Reuters).
  • There’s no scheduled Fedspeak, with a pulled forward data calendar leading the docket ahead of Thanksgiving.

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