April 19, 2024 10:23 GMT
Geopolitical Risk Impact Pared, But Fed Rates Still Lower On The Day
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- Fed Funds implied rates have recovered much of their plunge lower overnight on latest Israel-Iran strikes, but still give back all or at least some of yesterday’s push higher helped in part by strong data and a hawkish Williams.
- Cumulative cuts from 5.33% effective: 1.5bp May, 5.5bp Jun, 13bp Jul, 24bp Sep and 42bp Dec.
- The dovish impact from the risk-off moves have been skewed towards near-term meetings, with meetings out to July 0.5-1bp lower than pre-jobless claims levels but end-2024 implied rates still higher.
- Goolsbee (’25 voter) is the sole scheduled speaker at 1030ET, appearing at the SABEW annual conference including prepared text. He has already spoken since CPI but we watch to see if he repeats Williams' "no urgency" for cuts.
- Goolsbee on Apr 12: multiple inflation readings higher than we want [referring to the past 2-3 months of CPI inflation]. Will feel a lot better if PCE inflation shows long arc of inflation continuing its way down, but if PCE reinflates, "we will stabilize the prices".
- He’s followed by the Fed’s Financial Stability Report at 1600ET.
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