Please find below what we expect at the July meeting:
- We expect the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to hike rates by 75 bps to a range of 2.25%-2.5%, the FED long-term neutral rate estimate, at its July 26-27 meeting. We do not expect a 100 bps hike despite the strong June CPI (Consumer Price Index), because inflation expectations have dropped.
- Chair Powell will most likely repeat the committee’s need to see ‘clear and convincing’ evidence that inflation is coming down before moving to a slower pace.
- He probably will not provide too much information on the size of the hike in September in order to keep all options open.
- Chair Powell will likely confirm the doubling of the pace of quantitative tightening in September to $95bn/month ($60 bn in Treasuries and $35bn in Mortgaged-backed securities).
This meeting is expected be a confirmation of Fed data-dependency and should be without a meaningful impact on financial market. We expect the FED to remain hawkish in order to restore price stability with a slightly more balanced tone given weak incoming data. <
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