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Treasury Traders Know Fed Has Missed The Boat On A Bigger Move | ZeroHedge

Treasury Traders Know Fed Has Missed The Boat On A Bigger Move | ZeroHedge

From: zerohedge

 

 

On Thursday afternoon, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester remarked that she saw a compelling case for a bigger increase earlier this month when policymakers met. Not much later in the day, her colleague James Bullard commented that he would not rule out supporting a 50-basis point hike at the March meeting.

Whatever their comments, the Fed’s February move of 25 basis points will remain a missed opportunity to hike more, and it would seem that there is now little chance of reviving such a possibility.

 

By the middle of January, it was clear from Fed officials’ steer that the monetary authority was only considering a 25-basis point increase – an end-of-season folly that is coming to haunt it two weeks after the decision.

After all, if an overwhelming majority of policymakers have already penciled in a rate of 5.25%, and all economic participants are working on that assumption, why drag your feet without good reason and prolong getting to the destination?

There is little doubt that if the Fed were to have met in the aftermath of January’s non-farm payrolls expansion, resurgent inflation data and stand-out retail sales, it would have probably raised rates by a bigger margin.

 

But having dialed down the pace, it’s too late for the Fed to accelerate again, for that would:

None of this is lost on the markets. Even in the wake of comments by both Mester and Bullard – notwithstanding the fact that neither is a voter this year — interest-rate traders see a bigger move next month as just a fractional tail risk.

 

The bout of inflation we have seen in the aftermath of the pandemic is unlikely to settle anytime soon, and prior episodes of resistant price pressures show the Fed has to set its sights higher on its real policy rate. The sooner it gets to higher ground, the less the pain for the economy as a whole.

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