The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets

seekingalpha2023-01-30

SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...

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supre
·2023-01-31
I'm so grateful to Mrs Teresa Fuller for making me believe online trading. I never thought any of this was real and I was so scared of losing my money.now I benefit alot from Teresa Fuller Platform on Facebook
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MIe
·2023-01-30
variables like Reopening with pent up demand to dynamic prices is beyond fed control
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Kinag
·2023-01-30
Ok
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- Khin Moe Moe Thaw:
  Hello,
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- Khin Moe Moe Thaw:
  Please help me.I wants to Tiger link.
  2023-02-27
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Henryee18
·2023-01-30
Make it down before it's too late
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Last one standing
·2023-01-30
Very naggy article... Points noted. I do agreethe way this market is behaving, inflation will not come down so easily. But it's not end of the world either. The market will always balance by itself. It is just a matter of time. TheFed can easily raise interest rate as much asthey like, anytime they want. I do think Fed should monitor the situation a while more while gradually increasing the rates instead of making any abrupt moves to purposely shake the market. Nowadays people are too used to instant gratification and always want instant results but that's not how things work especially when it's such a big economy... Chill guys!
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JQC
·2023-01-30
👌
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tplian
·2023-01-30
Super hawk ftw
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xuero
·2023-01-30
Agree. Market is behaving in a crazy manner
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- Azerone.Kee:
  bull market,bear market, the market is always crazy all the time.
  2023-01-30
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BlitzBison
·2023-01-30
Just for reading sake
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AcidIce
·2023-01-30
Sway words will increase chances of winning big, long or short. I hope he don't only talk all the crap but act on it. Make interests rates go up 1% for another 4 more months lah! I don't believe he'll crash the market. Just do it & don't talk C0ck...
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Rookie22
·2023-01-30
Short the market
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InverseCramer
·2023-01-30
buy da dip
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Kok
·2023-01-30
This is dumb. It's not the job of the Fed to control markets, it's just that what they do move the markets.
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DKCL
·2023-01-30
Author must be having a lot of short positions 🤣
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mster
·2023-01-30
A bearish Article.
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LimBT
·2023-01-30
Ok
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Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. 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Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","kind":null,"is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":1},"commentList":[{"id":9955973569,"gmtCreate":1675169154551,"gmtModify":1676538981326,"author":{"id":"4138270331761452","authorId":"4138270331761452","name":"supre","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4138270331761452","authorIdStr":"4138270331761452"},"htmlText":"I'm so grateful to Mrs Teresa Fuller for making me believe online trading. 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Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955019676,"gmtCreate":1675065616595,"gmtModify":1676538973464,"author":{"id":"3577182936341023","authorId":"3577182936341023","name":"MIe","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f84d87792f02cf78e80ee34979fd31e5","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3577182936341023","authorIdStr":"3577182936341023"},"htmlText":"variables like&nbsp;Reopening with&nbsp;pent up demand to dynamic prices&nbsp;is beyond fed control&nbsp;","listText":"variables like&nbsp;Reopening with&nbsp;pent up demand to dynamic prices&nbsp;is beyond fed control&nbsp;","text":"variables like Reopening with pent up demand to dynamic prices is beyond fed control","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955019676","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955010201,"gmtCreate":1675064977203,"gmtModify":1676538973395,"author":{"id":"3577592690119548","authorId":"3577592690119548","name":"Kinag","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3f68091edc02b8d5e110ecb27d16b217","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3577592690119548","authorIdStr":"3577592690119548"},"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955010201","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":105893522,"gmtCreate":1677484171984,"gmtModify":1677485236810,"authorId":4136721945580062,"author":{"id":4136721945580062,"idStr":"4136721945580062","authorId":4136721945580062,"name":"Khin Moe Moe Thaw","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":9955010201,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Hello,","text":"Hello,","html":"Hello,"},{"id":105893524,"gmtCreate":1677484223998,"gmtModify":1677484227656,"authorId":4136721945580062,"author":{"id":4136721945580062,"idStr":"4136721945580062","authorId":4136721945580062,"name":"Khin Moe Moe Thaw","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":9955010201,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Please help me.I wants to Tiger link.","text":"Please help me.I wants to Tiger link.","html":"Please help me.I wants to Tiger link."}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955034763,"gmtCreate":1675064351953,"gmtModify":1676538973296,"author":{"id":"3561088065415396","authorId":"3561088065415396","name":"Henryee18","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/68e1124a4989ce380d6aa143a07b2620","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3b7820dfed76481d8dc4de6ac5a7a136","crmLevel":9,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3561088065415396","authorIdStr":"3561088065415396"},"htmlText":"Make it down before it's too late","listText":"Make it down before it's too late","text":"Make it down before it's too late","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955034763","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955035517,"gmtCreate":1675063672039,"gmtModify":1676538973257,"author":{"id":"3577006213879819","authorId":"3577006213879819","name":"Last one standing","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/c6ed1b6d3f23629b659933f021509f0c","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3577006213879819","authorIdStr":"3577006213879819"},"htmlText":"Very naggy article... Points noted. I do agreethe way this market is behaving, inflation will not come down so easily. But it's not end of the world either. The market will always balance by itself. It is just a matter of time. TheFed can easily raise interest rate as much asthey like, anytime they want. I do think Fed should monitor the situation a while more while gradually increasing the rates instead of making any abrupt moves to purposely shake the market. Nowadays people are too used to instant gratification and always want instant results but that's not how things work especially when it's such a big economy... Chill guys!","listText":"Very naggy article... Points noted. I do agreethe way this market is behaving, inflation will not come down so easily. But it's not end of the world either. The market will always balance by itself. It is just a matter of time. TheFed can easily raise interest rate as much asthey like, anytime they want. I do think Fed should monitor the situation a while more while gradually increasing the rates instead of making any abrupt moves to purposely shake the market. Nowadays people are too used to instant gratification and always want instant results but that's not how things work especially when it's such a big economy... Chill guys!","text":"Very naggy article... Points noted. I do agreethe way this market is behaving, inflation will not come down so easily. But it's not end of the world either. The market will always balance by itself. It is just a matter of time. TheFed can easily raise interest rate as much asthey like, anytime they want. I do think Fed should monitor the situation a while more while gradually increasing the rates instead of making any abrupt moves to purposely shake the market. Nowadays people are too used to instant gratification and always want instant results but that's not how things work especially when it's such a big economy... Chill guys!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":11,"commentSize":7,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955035517","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":106037530,"gmtCreate":1678810718382,"gmtModify":1678810721556,"authorId":3582433174006298,"author":{"id":3582433174006298,"idStr":"3582433174006298","authorId":3582433174006298,"name":"Nongren","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ae67943fc05548af1bd04d64112e1668","vip":1,"crmLevel":9,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":9955035517,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"o","text":"o","html":"o"},{"id":105680762,"gmtCreate":1675065833852,"gmtModify":1675065846635,"authorId":3575326435298567,"author":{"id":3575326435298567,"idStr":"3575326435298567","authorId":3575326435298567,"name":"Angsana","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3c8492153d7059ec1aa704a1bd541c14","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":9955035517,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>ok</u>","text":"<u>ok</u>","html":"<u>ok</u>"},{"id":105680758,"gmtCreate":1675065822112,"gmtModify":1675065834812,"authorId":3575558254464294,"author":{"id":3575558254464294,"idStr":"3575558254464294","authorId":3575558254464294,"name":"YIJACKKAU","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d617b66614686dc157041197c44d0e5d","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":9955035517,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<span class=\"s1\">.</span>","text":"<span class=\"s1\">.</span>","html":"<span class=\"s1\">.</span>"},{"id":105680750,"gmtCreate":1675065771845,"gmtModify":1675065785611,"authorId":3581507104335566,"author":{"id":3581507104335566,"idStr":"3581507104335566","authorId":3581507104335566,"name":"Jl123456","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e33617eb88bce300e61abe733e239b98","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":9955035517,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"ok","text":"ok","html":"ok"},{"id":105680749,"gmtCreate":1675065767501,"gmtModify":1675065781474,"authorId":3583644431775375,"author":{"id":3583644431775375,"idStr":"3583644431775375","authorId":3583644431775375,"name":"kslee9566","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/547278d0b48b0d822a0c5c43d2d6c06e","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":9955035517,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>ok</u>","text":"<u>ok</u>","html":"<u>ok</u>"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955035285,"gmtCreate":1675063670348,"gmtModify":1676538973249,"author":{"id":"4106387998711340","authorId":"4106387998711340","name":"JQC","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4106387998711340","authorIdStr":"4106387998711340"},"htmlText":"👌","listText":"👌","text":"👌","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955035285","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955035122,"gmtCreate":1675063476266,"gmtModify":1676538973241,"author":{"id":"4108629412181280","authorId":"4108629412181280","name":"tplian","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/7ecc0302d7a6f2cd28a1199a63498645","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4108629412181280","authorIdStr":"4108629412181280"},"htmlText":"Super hawk ftw","listText":"Super hawk ftw","text":"Super hawk ftw","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955035122","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955032639,"gmtCreate":1675063285322,"gmtModify":1676538973217,"author":{"id":"4099055228687120","authorId":"4099055228687120","name":"xuero","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/043271093c85fc090b9b3f3a6e36cec5","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4099055228687120","authorIdStr":"4099055228687120"},"htmlText":"Agree. Market is behaving in a crazy manner&nbsp;","listText":"Agree. Market is behaving in a crazy manner&nbsp;","text":"Agree. Market is behaving in a crazy manner","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955032639","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":105680662,"gmtCreate":1675064479622,"gmtModify":1675064492073,"authorId":4101545765383330,"author":{"id":4101545765383330,"idStr":"4101545765383330","authorId":4101545765383330,"name":"Azerone.Kee","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/d39387dc5f4bc64e4716bd64e398a9e2","vip":1,"currentWearingBadge":{"badgeId":"29815c1501c442c58b708482689df577-1","templateUuid":"29815c1501c442c58b708482689df577","name":"Emerging Contributor","description":"Contributors who received Editor's Pick for the 1st time","bigImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4ce9180a952c61a51c39f70d533b81a7","smallImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f98cf16cf4b858114f7ab9a779f9e6f1","redirectLinkEnabled":1,"redirectLink":"https://ttm.financial/TW/9000980585","hasAllocated":1,"isWearing":1,"stampPosition":0,"hasStamp":0,"allocationCount":1,"allocatedDate":"2022.08.15","individualDisplayEnabled":0,"individualDisplaySort":0,"categoryType":2005},"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":9955032639,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"bull market,bear market, the market is always crazy all the time.","text":"bull market,bear market, the market is always crazy all the time.","html":"bull market,bear market, the market is always crazy all the time."}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955032109,"gmtCreate":1675063236201,"gmtModify":1676538973209,"author":{"id":"4096589756885460","authorId":"4096589756885460","name":"BlitzBison","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2c711017cde68be46bd029006fcefb6c","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4096589756885460","authorIdStr":"4096589756885460"},"htmlText":"Just for reading sake","listText":"Just for reading sake","text":"Just for reading sake","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955032109","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955036683,"gmtCreate":1675062991842,"gmtModify":1676538973185,"author":{"id":"3569382039983887","authorId":"3569382039983887","name":"AcidIce","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25a5edd325094826cf6e8822874786ab","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3569382039983887","authorIdStr":"3569382039983887"},"htmlText":"Sway words will increase chances of winning big, long or short. I hope he don't only talk all the crap but act on it. Make interests rates go up 1% for another 4 more months lah! I don't believe he'll crash the market. Just do it &amp; don't talk C0ck...","listText":"Sway words will increase chances of winning big, long or short. I hope he don't only talk all the crap but act on it. Make interests rates go up 1% for another 4 more months lah! I don't believe he'll crash the market. Just do it &amp; don't talk C0ck...","text":"Sway words will increase chances of winning big, long or short. I hope he don't only talk all the crap but act on it. Make interests rates go up 1% for another 4 more months lah! I don't believe he'll crash the market. Just do it & don't talk C0ck...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955036683","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955036376,"gmtCreate":1675062831395,"gmtModify":1676538973171,"author":{"id":"3575290973507485","authorId":"3575290973507485","name":"Rookie22","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c6852efd5f87d9ecf7965e213c38ac97","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b0a2963eb37c60c5d6d4a8dbcd266952","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3575290973507485","authorIdStr":"3575290973507485"},"htmlText":"Short the market&nbsp;","listText":"Short the market&nbsp;","text":"Short the market","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955036376","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955036098,"gmtCreate":1675062692815,"gmtModify":1676538973170,"author":{"id":"3574136058061437","authorId":"3574136058061437","name":"InverseCramer","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc405e9f366cb34e826787dc45d36977","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3574136058061437","authorIdStr":"3574136058061437"},"htmlText":"buy da dip","listText":"buy da dip","text":"buy da dip","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955036098","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955038513,"gmtCreate":1675062418133,"gmtModify":1676538973155,"author":{"id":"3560204717545571","authorId":"3560204717545571","name":"Kok","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/efc25bb5380f85af49509ed68d9a3d8f","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3560204717545571","authorIdStr":"3560204717545571"},"htmlText":"This is dumb. It's not the job of the Fed to control&nbsp;markets, it's just that what they do move the markets.&nbsp;","listText":"This is dumb. It's not the job of the Fed to control&nbsp;markets, it's just that what they do move the markets.&nbsp;","text":"This is dumb. It's not the job of the Fed to control markets, it's just that what they do move the markets.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955038513","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955038871,"gmtCreate":1675062212193,"gmtModify":1676538973145,"author":{"id":"3562114073855305","authorId":"3562114073855305","name":"DKCL","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dd89417c21cb1f3344d20430376fc28d","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3562114073855305","authorIdStr":"3562114073855305"},"htmlText":"Author must be having a lot of short positions 🤣","listText":"Author must be having a lot of short positions 🤣","text":"Author must be having a lot of short positions 🤣","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955038871","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955038128,"gmtCreate":1675062179565,"gmtModify":1676538973139,"author":{"id":"4102815868703010","authorId":"4102815868703010","name":"mster","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/81a8fe18bd419696551df5320d8db477","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4102815868703010","authorIdStr":"4102815868703010"},"htmlText":"A bearish Article.&nbsp;","listText":"A bearish Article.&nbsp;","text":"A bearish Article.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955038128","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9955031419,"gmtCreate":1675062122231,"gmtModify":1676538973052,"author":{"id":"4134278158747952","authorId":"4134278158747952","name":"LimBT","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4134278158747952","authorIdStr":"4134278158747952"},"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9955031419","repostId":2307213302,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2307213302","pubTimestamp":1675061373,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2307213302?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2023-01-30 14:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2307213302","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have ease","content":"<html><head></head><body><h2>Summary</h2><ul><li>The Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.</li><li>Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.</li><li>The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df0b68892d8645315b783509081590f0\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.</p><p>The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn&#39;t been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed&#39;s desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.</p><p>Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dbe207b1b71276d33c158bc7b06111f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Prices Are Rising</b></h2><p>One effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc6219bd4f36ea6727dd427f572c9f76\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Also, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cab717ffe912bd6c307e1a6c5a83d2ba\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Meanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bd34110a43c078f78eedd1ffc1fc9757\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>The Return of Inflation</b></h2><p>These issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e61e00d682016c7784c65f6a79b3133e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"351\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Based on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/700c6aacb37d131c8a6876e80ece1cb4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>This is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed&#39;s predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.</p><p>The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d8bcaf7ae973c1a5c9e15f6af9910c6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"261\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>Sufficiently Restrictive</b></h2><p>Additionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b20ca05c73325fee19becf20aea637d4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"350\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><p>Chris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.</p><p>This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn&#39;t going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.</p><p>Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn&#39;t come down and is hovering around 4.1%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e7f8453ed074a69535b1f6b1a3bbb711\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"240\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>Bloomberg</p><h2><b>It Needs To Push Back</b></h2><p>If the Fed doesn&#39;t act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.</p><p>The Fed&#39;s options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.</p><p>Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe Fed Needs To Send An Extremely Hawkish Message To Markets\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-01-30 14:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573314-fed-send-extremely-hawkish-message-markets","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2307213302","content_text":"SummaryThe Federal Reserve appears to be losing control of the market.Financial conditions have eased dramatically since the December FOMC meeting.The Fed needs to push back against the market before it is too late.It appears that the Federal Reserve is losing control of the market. Financial conditions have eased to levels not seen since the spring of 2022. This easing has led to increases in commodity prices, drops in mortgage rates, a weakening ofthe dollar, and a rally in stocks.The February FOMC will take on extra importance because the Fed will need to push back on the current easing of financial conditions. If the Fed truly believes that monetary policy is transmitted through financial conditions, then the Fed hasn't been successful. Conditions are currently at levels equal to when the Fed first started to raise rates. These conditions are accommodative to the economy and aid in its expansion, exactly the opposite of the Fed's desire to get the economy to grow at a below-trend rate.Pushing back atthis point in the game may be even harder than it was when Powell gave his Jackson Hole speech. The market knows the Fed is closer to the end of its rate hiking cycle than the beginning. The market also expects inflation to continue to drop. This means the Fed can either raise rates by 50 bps, which would be a big surprise to markets, or give guidance that financial conditions have eased too much, which will extend the rate tightening cycle.BloombergPrices Are RisingOne effect of easing financial conditions is rising commodity prices. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline increased by 9.4% in January, indicating that we may see a resurgence in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on a month-over-month basis when the January report is released.BloombergAlso, copper prices have risen dramatically. Changes in copper prices can lead to changes in year-over-year changes in CPI. The recent increase in copper prices is due to two factors: the reopening of China and a weaker dollar. While the Federal Reserve cannot control the enthusiasm for a rebound in the Chinese economy, it can attempt to tighten financial conditions, strengthening the dollar and potentially slowing the copper rally.BloombergMeanwhile, lumber prices have risen dramatically this month as new home sales begin to pick up again. This appears to be a result of the easing of financial conditions.BloombergThe Return of InflationThese issues challenge Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee because the easing of financial conditions has increased inflationary impulses. According to the latest estimates from the Cleveland Fed, this is expected to result in a 60 basis point month-over-month increase in the headline Consumer Price Index in January. This would be the most significant increase in the monthly change of CPI since June.BloombergBased on those estimates, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could rise by 6.4% in January, showing no significant improvement compared to December. Inflation swaps for January have also been ticking higher in recent weeks, indicating that the market is also now expecting a higher reading in January.BloombergThis is a real risk for the Federal Reserve if the Cleveland Fed's predictions come true, as it would negate the progress the Fed has made since the summer peak in inflation and could call into question whether the downtrend we have witnessed in inflation has begun to reverse.The bottom line is that the Fed cannot afford to have financial conditions ease any further and needs them to start tightening again to slow the inflationary impulses that appear to be coming back to life. According to the Bloomberg Financial Conditions Index, conditions have returned to levels seen in February 2022, before the Fed started raising rates and only discussed the possibility of raising rates.BloombergSufficiently RestrictiveAdditionally, from a monetary policy standpoint, the overnight rate is roughly even with the core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation rate. The Fed has made it clear that it wants rates to be sufficiently restrictive, and for that to happen, rates will need to rise to a point where they are above the core PCE inflation rate.BloombergChris Waller, a Fed official, indicated what the Fed considers to be sufficiently restrictive in aninterviewlast week when he noted that sufficiently restrictive rates are when real rates are 1.5% to 2% above the forecasted inflation rate. He said that if you look to the end of the year and market forecasts for an inflation rate of 2.5% to 3%, getting to a 5% rate would be sufficiently restrictive.This may be the best indication yet that the Fed has given to the market about what it is thinking about when it comes to where it thinks rates need to be to bring the economy and inflation back into balance and why the Fed isn't going to back off raising rates before it reaches a 5% overnight rate at the lower bound.Additionally, the key metric that the Fed is watching is the PCE core services ex-housing, and based on data from Bloomberg, that has been a stubborn number that hasn't come down and is hovering around 4.1%.BloombergIt Needs To Push BackIf the Fed doesn't act at this point and push back against the current easing of financial conditions, which it has repeatedly noted helps to transmit monetary policy through the economy, then all may be lost. Because at this point, the market does not believe the Fed when it says that it wants monetary policy to be sufficiently restrictive and wants to slow growth to below trend and is willing to endure these things to kill inflationary impulses that still clearly exist.The Fed's options are limited at this point but can do this by going against the collective belief that the Fed will only raise rates by 25 basis points and instead raise rates by 50 basis points. Or, Powell will have to give a very forceful message, possibly more forceful than the one given at Jackson Hole, and threaten that rates may not go higher than what was thought in December due to unwarranted easing of financial conditions. Otherwise, he may need to raise the topic of potentially increasing the pace of quantitative tightening and the balance sheet run-off.Anything else would suggest that the Fed is okay with the current easing of financial conditions and is willing to tolerate the market taking control and driving monetary policy, which seems like a disaster just waiting to happen.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":80,"commentSize":16,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}