Major brokerages now expect Fed to cut rates in September
Updates with Wells Fargo Investment Institute and UBS Global Wealth Management forecasts
August 6 (Reuters) -Brokerages including J.P. Morgan, Citigroup and Wells Fargo have forecast a 50 basis-point interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve in September after a surprisingly weak U.S. employment report for July.
The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to near a three-year high of 4.3% in July amid a significant slowdown in hiring, fuelling concerns that the labor market was deteriorating and potentially making the economy vulnerable to a recession.
BofA Global Research brought forward its expectation of the first cut to September from December, while other major brokerages now expect the Fed to cut rates in all the three remaining meetings of the year.
Here are the forecasts from major brokerages after the July unemployment data:
New rate cut estimates (in bps) | Old rate cut estimates (in bps) | |||||
Sept | Nov | Dec | Sept | Nov | Dec | |
Goldman Sachs | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | |
BofA Global Research | 25 | -- | 25 | -- | -- | 25 |
UBS Global Wealth Management | 50 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | |
J.P.Morgan | 50 | 50 | 25 | -- | -- | -- |
Wells Fargo | 50 | 50 | 25 | 25 | 25 | |
Nomura | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | |
Deutsche Bank | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
Morgan Stanley | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
Citigroup | 50 | 50 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
TD Securities | 25 | 25 | 25 | -- | -- | -- |
Peel Hunt | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | -- | 25 |
Wells Fargo Investment Institute | 50 | 25 | 25 | -- | -- | -- |
Barclays | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | |
* Wells Fargo Investment Institute is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank
Compiled by the Broker Research team in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema and Shinjini Ganguli
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