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A Dovish Shift From the Fed
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A Dovish Shift From the Fed
By MarketPulse (Craig Erlam) | Mar 23, 2023 05:47AM ET Equity markets in Europe opened a little lower on Thursday following a very mixed session in Asia and some heavy selling on the other side of the pond on Wednesday.
While investors have been relieved that this week has brought no new instability in the banking sector (yet), they are a little concerned by what they heard from the Fed and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen yesterday.
The central bank hiked interest rates by 25 basis points, in line with expectations. However, the language that accompanied it was far less hawkish than before, reflecting the uncertainty that the recent mini-banking crisis has created.
Jerome Powell and his colleagues are clearly concerned about the impact of recent events on credit conditions, which may impact lending to households and businesses, slow the economy, and weigh on inflation. While this would do some of its job for it, bringing inflation back to target won’t do so in the way it will have wanted.
What’s more, the risks of further fallout have left investors nervous, and while the Fed is not pricing in any rate cuts this year, markets very much are. We may not see those risks reflected in Fed forecasts and the dot plot but they are evident in the language used, as they were with the ECB last week.
BoE left with little wiggle room
The Bank of England is up next and it also finds itself left with little option but to raise rates again despite the events of the last couple of weeks. Regardless of yesterday’s inflation data, the MPC may have opted for another 25 basis points anyway as its counterparts in the US and euro area have stuck to their plan without any negative repercussions.
But the February CPI readings removed any flexibility they may have thought they had and now markets are pricing in a higher terminal rate of around 4.5% as a result. This makes the language that accompanies the decision key and I expect it will use the same playbook as the Fed and ECB in highlighting the uncertainty around the outlook and the need to take it one meeting at a time and be data-dependent.
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A Dovish Shift From the Fed
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