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Jan 14, 2023 10:57PM ET
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10-Year Indicates Fed Is Close to Ending Rate Hike Cycle
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10-Year Indicates Fed Is Close to Ending Rate Hike Cycle
By James Picerno | Jan 13, 2023 09:29AM ET The Federal Reserve is expected to lift interest rates again at the next FOMC meeting on Feb. 1, but the futures market is pricing in high odds that the increase will be trimmed to a relatively mild 25 basis points. Animating the softer outlook for monetary policy changes is yesterday’s encouraging news on inflation.
Consumer prices fell 0.1% in December, the biggest monthly decline since the pandemic ravaged the economy. The year-over-year increase, although still elevated, continues to ease, too, slipping to 6.4% at the headline level, the lowest since Oct. 2021 and well below the recent peak of 9.0% in June 2022.
The latest news on inflation strengthens expectations that the Federal Reserve is close to ending its rate hikes. Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, said,
“If [the Fed is] doing a forecast, which is what they should be doing, it strongly argues that their rate increases should be coming to an end soon. There’s nothing not to like about this report. Inflation is going to come [down] here.”
The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield seems to agree. After a sharp increase through most of 2022, the 10-year rate has been trading in a range. Lately, that’s well below its previous peak, slipping to 3.43% yesterday (Jan. 12), which is close to the lowest since last September.
Last month’s fair-value estimate of the 10-year rate hinted at the possibility that the benchmark yield was too high relative to economic and financial conditions, based on the average of three models.
Today’s fair-value update reaffirms the analysis and advises that the current market rate, despite the recent slide, is still elevated relative to the average model estimate (red line in the chart below).
US 10-Year Vs. Average of Three Fair Value Models
The modeling calculates the 10-year fair value at 2.83% for December or roughly 60 basis points below the market rate in yesterday’s trading.
There’s no assurance that the fair value is a reliable forecast of where the 10-year yield is headed, but it offers a basis for thinking that the upside momentum remains constrained.
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10-Year Indicates Fed Is Close to Ending Rate Hike Cycle
Comments (5)
G D
Jan 14, 2023 7:57PM ET
Does this look like 2012 to you?
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Alex Malmstrom
Jan 14, 2023 10:30AM ET
Keep dreaming!
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Teena Marie
Jan 13, 2023 6:11PM ET
I would agree under different circumstances. My perspective is that a combination of demand for fixed rate income and other influences have driven the price of bonds causing a drop in yields.
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laurent Eliane
Jan 13, 2023 4:15PM ET
Don t think do. 0.1 percent less is not a reversal trend
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