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Potential Bullard Boost

STIR FUTURES
  • Fed Funds futures imply 49.5bps of hikes for May 4 (unchanged since Thu) and are just off new highs at 97bps for Jun 15.
  • Pricing to year-end also firms to 215bps but struggles to regain the >220bps seen prior to last week’s core CPI miss.
  • The move has come in European hours, possibly a delayed reaction to Bullard (’22 voter) late yesterday entertaining the idea of 75bp hikes even though that’s not yet his base case on the way to getting to circa 3.5% this year.
  • Chicago Fed’s Evans (’23 voter) at 1205ET. A median dot at the March meeting, he was more hawkish on Apr 11 and considered a 50bp hike in May as “perhaps highly likely” on the way to getting to a neutral 2.25-2.5% by year-end.

Cumulative hikes implied by FOMC-dated Fed Funds futuresSource: Bloomberg

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