Powell the Grinch?
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Is Jerome Powell acting like a Grinch and delaying the December rate cut?
Well is Jerome Powell gonna be the Grinch who stole Christmas? Well, maybe for those who are hoping for Fed red cut in December, that is looking a little less likely, but not totally off the cards after the Fed chair spoke on Friday. But red of a festive colour, but not one you one you want to see on the screens, but there was a lot of it on Friday. Let's see if there's a few twigs of holly to lighten the proceedings, a bit of green for this week. It's Monday, it's the 18th of November 2024. Still a lot of the things. way off Christmas. I don't know why I'm talking like this. It's the morning call from Nab. Good morning. Well, bond yields last week basically up in the United States, down, or at least not uh not up as much in other places.
So we had ten year treasuries last week up almost fourteen basis points, ten year guilt yields up less than four, Aussie ten year futures up just two, German Bundes down more than one basis point, so quite a a difference around the world and currencies. The DXY is up one point six percent last week, the pound down two point three percent, the Aussie last Lost 1.8%, the Kiwi dollar down 1.7%. And last week in equities, well, it was a bad week for everyone, as it turns out. The Nasdaq lost 2.25% on Friday, down 3.1% over the week. The SP in the US down more than 2% over the week. Less of a drop in Europe. Actually, the DAC's just about stayed still at the end of the week. The ASX 200 was down just 0.1% as well.
But the big falls, well, mid and small caps in the United States. States, the Russell 2000 lost four percent last week, as well as the Hang Seng down six point three percent, the CSI three hundred down three point three per cent, and oil lower, Brent down three point eight percent last week, finishing just over seventy-one a barrel, gold was down four point six percent, iron ore lost five point seven per cent. We get the general direction of travel. Uh here's Nab's Taylor Nugent in Melbourne. So there was a bit of a change of tone, wasn't there, on Friday, because Jerome Powell spoke actually just about the time our podcast came out on Friday morning and put a question mark, quite a big question mark, over that rate cut which everyone was assuming was gonna happen in December, it's now looking a bit fifty fifty, isn't it?
Yeah,
good morning, Phil. So um pal speaking about seven AM our time and and just kind of, you know Adding a bit more skepticism as to whether the Fed will kind of, you know, continue on autopilot through through the balance of this year. The the kind of key quote there from him um that was getting attention is the economy is not sending any signals that we need to be in a hurry to lower rates.
How did Powell’s comments shift market pricing on a December Fed cut?
Um and that's you know, this is in the context where, you know, CPI data on Wednesday, it wasn't it wasn't good, but it was kind of no worse than expected and that probably um you know led Markets to think that you know that That that could have potentially closed the door on a on a December cut. It didn't, and so you were about eighty percent priced after that. PPI, some of the detail there was a little ugly, and then and then Powell's comments mean that, you know, we're only a little bit over fifty percent priced for a December cut at the moment. Um we've seen kind of, you know, yields two year yields were up around kind of five to seven basis points on on those remarks, kind of grow. Round lower uh through through kind of a twenty four hours after that, with kind of the small exception of a bit of a bounce after after retail sales, which we'll um we'll touch on in a second.
But you know, where we are today that the two year yield at four thirty is only about two basis points higher than um than than before Powell spoke. Um but you know what what we can take away from that, I think, you know, it's worth highlighting something that he said in the in the discussion after his prepared remarks as well, which was that it may be the case that we slow the pace of what we're doing just to increase the chances that we get it right.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Is Jerome Powell acting like a Grinch and delaying the December rate cut?
0:01–2:24
2
How did Powell’s comments shift market pricing on a December Fed cut?
2:24–5:20
3
What did the mixed US data (retail sales vs. industrial production) reveal about the economy?
5:20–8:16
4
Why is the New York Fed manufacturing survey showing unexpected strength?
8:16–10:41
5
What does the latest Chinese retail and industrial data mean for global growth?
10:41–13:11
6
How are the Bank of Japan’s policy outlook and yen movements linked to recent data?
13:11–15:37
7
What can we expect from upcoming central‑bank speeches and the RBA/ECB lectures?
15:37–16:57
8
What are the key takeaways for investors heading into the week’s PMI and housing data?
16:57–16:57