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Multiple Outlets Emphasize Bullard Push-Back

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Worth noting a nascent rally in front-end rates this morning following Thursday's aggressive sell-off, attributed in part to a few media outlets conveying a rather more dovish message from FOMC participants vs St Louis Bullard's comments yesterday. These were further to MNI's interview w SF Fed Pres Daly late Thursday.

  • Overnight, the WSJ ran a piece signalling the FOMC was "unlikely" to make an inter-meeting hike.
  • And in the past couple of hours, Feb Fed funds futures returned to "pre-Bullard" levels, with CNBC filing a report "Did markets go too far when interpreting yesterday's hawkish comments from St. Louis Fed President Jim Bullard?" ... "Reporting from CNBC finds several Fed officials, both privately and publicly, pushing back" against Bullard's comments yesterday re aggressive hiking.
  • And "CNBC reporting found that most Fed officials were already looking for a bad inflation report.. and the January report was not substantially worse than they had expected".

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