Why the Cease-Fire Narrows the Path to a Near-Term Fed Rate Cut -- WSJ

Dow Jones04-08 22:55

By Nick Timiraos

The cease-fire announced Tuesday night between the U.S. and Iran has led investors to price in slightly better odds of a Federal Reserve rate cut before year's end, but that overlooks how asymmetrically the end of the conflict reshapes the Fed's risk calculus.

The risk that a widening conflict would drag down growth and tip the economy into a downturn had been the last, best argument for resuming rate cuts. Paradoxically, the end of the war may actually make it harder, not easier, for the Fed to ease in the short run.

That's because the cease-fire removes the worst-case economic scenario-supply-chain disruptions that destroy demand-far more than it removes the risk of new inflation pressures. Energy and goods prices that rose during the conflict won't fully reverse, financial conditions are easing now on the cease-fire optimism, and the labor market has held up well enough that the Fed doesn't feel pressure to ride to the rescue.

Take away the risk of severe demand destruction and what's left is an inflation problem that hadn't been fully extinguished even before the recent rise in energy prices that threatens to echo, albeit more mildly than before if the cease-fire holds.

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