Fed Poised for Biggest Rate Hike in 28 Years Amid Soaring Inflation, Market Angst

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Investors have sharply raised their expectations that the Federal Reserve will on Wednesday deliver the biggest single interest rate hike in 28 years amid red-hot inflation and a turbulent selloff across world markets.

Just last week, markets gave an 8.2 percent probability that the Fed would raise the benchmark federal funds rate by three-quarters of a percentage point at its June meeting, with 91.8 percent predicting a half a percentage point boost, according to CME Group’s Fed Watch tool.

But the expectation landscape for the scale of the Fed’s rate move has dramatically shifted, spurred by a violent selloff in risk assets and a sharp rise in bond yields following last week’s consumer price inflation data that showed inflationary pressures accelerating.

Investor bets as reflected in the Fed Watch tool are now showing zero probability for a 50 basis point hike and a whopping 95.6 percent probability of a 75 basis point increase when Fed Chair Jerome Powell announces the central bank’s rate decision later on Wednesday.

A rate hike of 0.75 percentage points would be the biggest increase since 1994 and would put the target rate at between 1.50 percent and 1.75 percent.

“The Federal Reserve typically delivers what is discounted, which makes a 75 [basis point] hike likely today,” ING analysts said in a note.

What’s more, a growing number of investors expect an even sharper, 100 basis point increase on Wednesday, with futures contracts ascribing a 4.4 percent probability for a full percentage point hike, as of the time of reporting.

The market rout that has left equities and other risk assets battered gained steam on Tuesday, when producer price inflation data came in hot, adding to concerns that consumer price growth would be stuck in high gear for longer as input costs tend to get passed on to households.

The benchmark S&P 500 on Monday fell into a bear market—defined as a drop of over 20 percent from a recent high—and on Wednesday morning remained down around 22 percent from an all-time high reached in January.

By Tom Ozimek

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