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ISM Services And Goolsbee Help Move Off Dovish Extremes

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  • The stronger than expected ISM services report has helped further trim rate cut expectations after comments from Chicago Fed’s Goolsbee (’25 voter), whilst not particularly new having already spoken over the weekend, helped limit inter-meeting cut prospects.
  • FFQ4 shows 4.5bp of cuts from an effective 5.33% effective vs 3bp with Friday’s close and 1.5bp pre-payrolls. That had touched 12bp overnight (presumably on low liquidity) and 7-8bp as US desks filtered in.
  • There are still aggressive cuts seen, with still an extra 9-11bp of cuts across Sep-Jan meetings in additional to Friday’s close, despite the Dec’24 implied rate lifting 20bp intraday.
  • Cumulative cuts from 5.33% effective: 58bp Sep, 96bp Nov, 128bp Dec and 150bp Jan.
  • The SLOOS is still to be seen today. We expect further Fedspeak to push back against emergency cut prospects in particular. That could have an impact as sentiment is in the driving seat currently, whilst the next more notable data aren’t until weekly jobless claims on Thursday.

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