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Flatter Front-Loaded Rate Path Seen Post-Decision

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The dust is still settling in rate markets following the ECB's 50bp hike, so we would caution against reading much into implied probabilities, but for the moment pricing is for a basically flat path for the rest of the year including less than a 50% probability of a full 25bp hike in either of May or June.

  • That's around 12bp of hikes remaining or 62bp including today's - the same cumulative magnitude as pre-decision, when 25bp was still given a higher probability of 50bp (though an earlier peak vs the Oct/Dec seen prior).
  • So a more front-loaded path now foreseen, inevitably due to the "surprise" 50bp raise, but no real change in expected tightening overall.

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