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Yes, This Time Is Different: Front-Loading the Fed Pivot Is a Bad Idea
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Yes, This Time Is Different: Front-Loading the Fed Pivot Is a Bad Idea
By Alfonso Peccatiello | Jan 18, 2023 12:05 -
Have a look at the last US inflation report;
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Answer the big question: Powell pivoted in 2019, is he going for it again in 2023?
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Analyze what’s priced in for bonds and equity markets: a recession, Goldilocks, or what regime exactly?
Yes, this time is different: front-loading the Fed pivot is a bad idea.
Last week’s US CPI report delivered the good news: inflation is coming down and fast.
Fixed-income traders are nodding to this trend and expect YoY CPI to print at 2.50% by late summer already.
Not only that, but Powell got exactly what he was looking for:
- Inflationary pressures are less broad: the share of CPI items whose MoM annualized price increases exceed 4% is now quickly heading back down to 50% from its 75% peak a few months ago;
- The momentum of sticky inflation is fading: the 3m moving average of MoM core services ex-shelter CPI has dramatically slowed down, and it’s now in line with a 2.5-3.0% annualized core inflation.
3-Month MA of MoM Core Services
Markets have a huge recency bias. For the last ten years, every time inflation and growth slowed down, you had to do one simple thing.
Buy every asset you can, and front-load the upcoming Fed pivot. So that’s exactly what markets did.
Junk bonds, Bitcoin, Bed Bath & Beyond Inc (NASDAQ:BBBY) and Co. to the moon. Implied volatilities crushed across the board.
My mentor used to tell me the most expensive four words in finance are ‘’This Time Is Different’’. Yet, I think the old adage is wrong here.
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Yes, This Time Is Different: Front-Loading the Fed Pivot Is a Bad Idea
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