June 17, 2024 07:41 GMT
Light Steepening Seen, CPI & BoE To Dominate This Week
GILTS
Gilt futures trade around late Friday levels, last -5 at 98.82.
- Bulls are in control from a technical standpoint.
- They look for a break of Friday’s high (99.05) to further cement recent gains.
- Initial firm support is seen at the 20-day EMA, with the June 4 high (97.86) providing some intermediate protection.
- Cash gilt yields are flat to 1bp lower, as the curve steepens a little. 2s10s sits a little below recent highs.
- J.P.Morgan have recommend fading the recent curve steepening via tactical 10s/30s flatteners. They point to light long end supply in the coming months, as well as their expectations for GBP STIRs.
- Local headline flow continues to be dominated by polling woes for PM Sunak and the ruling Conservative party.
- The BoE will sell GBP600mn of long dated gilts from its APF later today.
- This week will see focus fall on the latest round of monthly CPI data (Wednesday) and the BoE monetary policy decision (Thursday).
- CPI data may be more informative for the future path of monetary policy than the MPC decision.
- The Bloomberg survey median looks for services CPI to slow to +5.5%Y/Y, still notably above the BoE’s forecast (+5.26%).
- However, we think there may be some downside risks to that releasee.
- We will publish our full previews of those events in due course.
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