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A Hawkish Pause, But What Comes Next?
Ahead of FOMC day, Head of Research Tom Lee noted that many investors were viewing the market from the lens of a conventional monetary policy cycle, leading them to expect a hard landing and remain leery of stocks until at least three or four rate cuts by the Fed. Instead,...
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A 25 bp Rate Hike, but Will It Be the Last One?
The members of the FOMC voted on Wednesday, May 3 announced it would raise rates by +25 bp, as most on the Street predicted. The vote was unanimous. In its previous rate hike on March 22, the Fed wrote that “the committee anticipates that some additional policy forming may be...
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The Smoke Clears After Jackson Hole, Jobs Report Encouraging
Hot labor market cooled moderately as employers slowed the pace of hiring, more people sought to rejoin the labor force, and pace of wage growth moderated. Deceleration came as a relief in contrast to the red-hot data characterizing much of the past two years. While the August jobs data reported...
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Special Edition: Everything You Need to Know About Jackson Hole
Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell made his much-anticipated keynote speech at the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole symposium. While fixed income markets were largely positioned in anticipation of a hawkish message, equity markets retreated significantly, with the losses being the worst in high P/E equities. Powell had an abbreviated speech and...
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Fed Minutes: Despite Encouraging July CPI, Inflation Remains Far Too High
It’s not time for a victory lap just yet, even after markets have rallied substantially since their June lows, and an encouraging July CPI print pushed them higher. This week, the Fed released the minutes from its most recent policy meeting in late July. Fed officials, according to the minutes,...
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Fed Responds to Inflation Progress, Economic Resilience
Throughout 2023 and going into the September 20, 2023 FOMC meeting, our view has continued to be that real-time data shows that inflation is on a glide path down, that the lagging metrics used to calculate inflation indicators would come to reflect that, and that when – not if –...
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All Eyes on FOMC Meeting Next Week Amid Hot Inflation
Federal Reserve officials have indicated they are gravitating toward another 0.75-percentage-point rate rise at their July 26-27 Federal Open Market Committee meeting, even as they have faced questions about their willingness to do more than that to bring down high inflation. Central bankers have signaled they will do whatever it...
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June CPI Report Comes In Hot, Fed Fund Futures Retreat After Initial Shock
The June CPI print came in at 9.1% on Wednesday on expectations of 8.8%. This was higher than expectations and the report did not give Fed officials any reprieve from persistently high price pressures. Shelter was problematic and so was gasoline. Hotels benefitting from revenge spending contributed as well. The...
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FOMC minutes confirm Fed’s priority to fight inflation; US job growth remains solid
The FOMC minutes released this week showed further evidence that the Feds are centered on containing inflation. Investors cheered this week, though fears of a recession linger. FOMC policymakers judged that an increase of 50 or 75 basis points "would likely be appropriate at the next meeting" given the current...
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Some Relief on Fed’s Favorite Inflation Measure; Powell Says The Clock is Ticking on Preventing Sustained High Inflation
The Fed’s favorite inflation gauge came in this week. The PCE rose 0.2% in May but fell 0.5% when inflation was considered. Personal incomes were a similar story as well. They rose .5% but after being adjusted for inflation the number was down 0.1% while prices continued rising in May...
