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Terminal BoE Pricing Off 40bp From Peak, As ECB Holds The 4% Mark

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With Federal Reserve terminal rate pricing tumbling 5bp on a US CPI miss, implied ECB and (especially) BoE peak rates were pulled back Wednesday.

  • BoE terminal Bank Rate pricing -23.5bp to 6.25% (125bp of further hikes left in the cycle to Mar 2024): Terminal BoE pricing is now off 40bp from the Jul 6 intraday peak, with basically a full 25bp hike removed from the path today as the US inflation print posed questions for whether the BoE can get to 6.50%.
  • Interestingly, August MPC implied pricing has faded to 42bp (vs 46bp at the start of the week), suggesting increasing scepticism over a another consecutive half-point raise - we get UK GDP data first thing Thursday.
  • ECB terminal depo Rate pricing -3bp to 4.01% (51bp of further hikes left in the cycle to Dec 2023): ECB pricing diminished slightly after the US CPI print, but held on to the 4.00% mark. Commentary from ECB's Lane and Vujcic in the afternoon leaned dovish but had little impact. Thursday sees French final CPI, Eurozone IP, and the accounts of the June ECB meeting.


Source: MNI, BBG

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