The Fed Meeting Preview: Expect A Hawkish Turn, Possibly A “Higher-Until-Recession"
The FOMC met in January 2024, but it did not release the SEP projections. However, the FOMC statement deleted the reference to "policy firming" and included the following sentence:The Committee does not expect it will be appropriate to reduce the target range until it has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2 percent.The sentence above confirms that the Fed's next move is the interest rate cut. However, the timing of the eventual cut appears to be data-dependent