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Terminal BoE Pricing Soars Post-CPI, Pulling ECB Up Slightly

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Market-implied BoE rate hike pricing soared Wednesday following a surprise rise in core CPI to a 31-year high.

  • BoE terminal Bank Rate pricing +33.9bp to 5.44% (95bp of further hikes left in the cycle to Dec 2023). Having hit an implied 5.50% peak early in the session, pricing pulled back slightly by the close, but it left the terminal rate at the highest since October 2022. A June 25bp hike is now seen as a lock (and several sell-side analysts who weren't previously expecting such an outcome changed their minds today post-CPI), with odds of a 50bp hike now at 20%.
  • ECB terminal depo Rate pricing +1.8bp to 3.81% (56bp of further hikes left in the cycle to Oct 2023). ECB depo rate pricing was pulled higher by the UK events, but retraced about 5bp from the session highs and ended only marginally higher. A 25bp June ECB hike remains odds-on (95%), but had been 99% priced at one point this morning.



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