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Further Trimming Of Cut Expectations On Retail Strength But Potential Paring Of Move

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  • Fed implied rates have jumped higher with the surprisingly resilient retail sales report.
  • It pushes the rate path back above pre-CPI levels across 2024 meeting, with largest relative gains for Mar-July meetings.
  • Cumulative cuts: 15bp March, 36bp May, 62bp June and 143bp Dec (latter vs 166 pre-Waller).
  • However, it could as ever be prone to paring some more of the move considering retail sales have a much smaller share of services than the broader consumer spending data due next week. These data shown goods nominal consumption lagging that of services over the past year (goods 3.3% Y/Y vs services 6.5% Y/Y in Nov) and which could have been due some catch-up – recall services are about two thirds of consumption.

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