ZH: Stocks & bonds bloodbath as Fed drops hawkish hammer

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ZERO HEDGE writes:

The short-term interest-rate (STIR) market is now pricing in 10 more rate-hikes this year, after St.Louis Fed’s Jim Bullard, SF Fed’s Mary Daly and even Fed Chair Jay Powell dropped the hawkish hammer of evil on silver-lining-seeking equity market investors (seeing multiple 50bps hikes ahead)…

(Source Bloomberg)

The market is now fully pricing in a 50bps hike in both the May and the June FOMC meeting (and pricing in a 75% chance of a 50bps hike in July too and a 50% chance of a 50bps hike in September!).

Powell told the audience at an IMF debate that “the US labor market is too hot… unsustainably hot.”

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The Economist: “Why the Federal Reserve has made a historic mistake on inflation” (sub. required to read the full article).

CNBC: “Powell says taming inflation ‘absolutely essential,’ and a 50 basis point hike possible for May“.