Time to fight the Fed?
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TIME TO FIGHT THE FED?
“Don’t fight the Fed” is a maxim that guides investors to listen to exactly what the U.S. central bank is saying because its policymakers have their back.
World stocks are not fighting at all. They are at record highs after the Fed accompanied Wednesday’s jumbo rate cut with assurances it had done so to prevent a recession and not because a downturn was already underway.
Joe Quinlan, Bank of America’s influential chief market strategist, said this made sense because the Fed was cutting rates to ensure businesses and consumers did not suffer unnecessarily from high borrowing costs.
“The economy’s the strongest in the world,” he said. “This is the first step in lowering the cost of capital and that’s good for consumers, commercial real estate and homebuyers.”
But monetary policy does not always work quickly enough and the Fed’s long stretch of previous hikes could be inflicting damage now, strategists at BCA Research warned.
“Rate cuts may only ripple through the economy after it is already too late,” they said.
They recommended cutting equity exposure because the risk of loss if the Fed is wrong increases as stocks march higher.
And away from the stock market arena that captures most attention, there’s another fight breaking out - a battle between money markets and bond traders that is worth tuning in to.
Money markets have forecast that the Fed funds rate will fall by 194bps by next October, suggesting inflation stays benign from here.
But a new “bear steepening” pattern in U.S. Treasuries - where yields on the ten year note have risen while two-year yields stay flat - suggests bond traders expect consumer price rises to pick up.
(Naomi Rovnick)
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