Traders said the odds for a hike in December, which would follow one likely in September, rose to 58 percent. Not only do traders now believe the U.S. central bank will hike the federal funds rate by a quarter point later this month to 2.00 percent-2.25 percent, they appear to have greater conviction the For one thing, the Fed’s seven rate hikes since Dec. 2015 have cost credit card users an extra $9.65 billion in interest to date. That figure will swell by at least $1.6 billion this year if the Fed raises its target rate on September 26, as expected. One more rate hike is expected from the Fed in the final quarter of 2018, too. Two Fed presidents voted against the increase — Charles Evans of Chicago and Neel Kashkari of Minneapolis. The move will push the target range to 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent. The Fed Funds futures markets (via the CME FedWatch Tool) are now pricing in a 73.9% chance of another Fed rate cut in September. That’s up from 67.9% yesterday. By the end of the year, the odds that the federal funds rate will be at least 50 bps lower (150-175 bps) are now 52.9%. While President Trump's apparent China trade-war detente grabbed all the headlines on Monday, Treasury yields and Fed rate-hike odds quietly continued their recent climb, limiting gains in the S&P Wall Street is betting that a looming slowdown in economic growth will prevent the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates this year.
For one thing, the Fed’s seven rate hikes since Dec. 2015 have cost credit card users an extra $9.65 billion in interest to date. That figure will swell by at least $1.6 billion this year if the Fed raises its target rate on September 26, as expected. One more rate hike is expected from the Fed in the final quarter of 2018, too. Two Fed presidents voted against the increase — Charles Evans of Chicago and Neel Kashkari of Minneapolis. The move will push the target range to 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.
The Fed enacted three rate hikes this year in its September meeting and is on its way to enact the fourth one in December. As of now, the analysts foresee 79% chance of a 25-bp rate hike next month. Traders of U.S. interest-rate futures are rapidly losing confidence that the Federal Reserve will continue to raise rates, with a near-certain hike in December now coming into doubt and almost no Goldberg said he does his own calculations of the market’s odds of a December rate hike and said they remain “very well priced in.” He calculates the odds of a December hike are at 85%, down Rates markets have started to downgrade the odds of a rate hike by either the BOC or the BOE in May, both odds remain above 60% for both central banks. After all of the Fed fist-pounding insistence of a possible rate hike over the last couple weeks, the jobs report – and then Chair Yellen herself – put a damper on those expectations. According to Bloomberg, the odds of a rate hike in June moved from 2% to 0%! The odds of a rate hike by December, however, is at about 50%.
The Fed Funds futures markets (via the CME FedWatch Tool) are now pricing in a 73.9% chance of another Fed rate cut in September. That’s up from 67.9% yesterday. By the end of the year, the odds that the federal funds rate will be at least 50 bps lower (150-175 bps) are now 52.9%.
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