ep 399 | What does a Fed hiking cycle mean for markets?
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What did the Fed’s latest rate hike signal for the market?
I'm Mark Lister, Investment Director at Craig's Investment Partners, and I'll be talking about a range of topics including economics, portfolio strategy, investor education and anything else that's happening out there in financial markets. Last week we saw the Federal Reserve in the United States, and that's the world's most influential central bank, increase its policy interest rate for the first time since 2023. The 25 basis point increase, which is 0.25%, took the policy rate range to 3.75 to 4%. And it looks like that was just the start. It doesn't look like Like a one and done hike, it looks like the beginning of another interest rate hiking cycle, which is basically when the central bank starts to raise interest rates and then continues.
If that's the case, this would be just the eighth Fed hiking cycle that we've seen since 1980, and just the fourth since the turn of the century, since 2000. Now, each of those periods back Through history, have come against a very different backdrop and time for the global economy, for financial markets. But there's always something we can learn when we look back into the past. So, what can we take from those other eight hiking cycles? Well, if we look at those eight, then on average, they lasted 16 months.
How many Fed hiking cycles have occurred since 1980 and what’s their typical length?
And on average, we saw the Fed lift interest rates by a little more. Than four percentage points. This is really important. The start of a Fed hiking cycle does not necessarily spell doom for the US economy or the share market. In those eight previous examples, the economy fell into recession within three years of that start on four occasions. So not great odds, it's 50-50, that's a coin flip, but I guess my point is. That history suggests that recessions are far from inevitable. As for the US share market, it has held its own quite often in the face of rate hikes. Looking back at all of those examples, the SP 500 index was higher 12 months after liftoff. Liftoff is that first rate hike. So 12 months after that first rate hike, the SP 500 was higher.
On six occasions, six out of eight. And the average return across all eight was an increase of 5.2%. So not terrible. Of the two declines, two out of eight, we saw a 12-month fall in the SP 500 after liftoff.
What have past cycles taught us about recession odds after a rate‑hike start?
But of those two declines, one was a very marginal fall of 0.1%. So pretty much flat. And that was after. The first move and the hiking cycle of 1983. So that one doesn't really count. The other exception does count because that was the most recent hiking cycle before now. That is the one that started in 2022, and that was obviously after that COVID period where inflation had surged to a 40-year high. Now that was a really tough year for US shares, 2022, and from start to finish. Or from top to bottom, I should say, the SP 500 fell 25% from its peak in January of that year to its October low. And that doesn't marry up with when the hiking cycle started, but uh it does hopefully just paint a picture of how challenging that year was, down 25% in uh 10 months or thereabouts.
Now, rate hikes weren't the only reason for that fall, but they did continue. Contribute because back then the Fed increased interest rates from 0.25% right up to 5.5% in less than 18 months. So that was one of the most aggressive hiking cycles that we've seen in decades. Actually, the US economy proved remarkably resilient though during that period. We didn't see a recession, and that resilience might have set the scene for the very strong.
How did the 2022‑2023 aggressive rate‑hike cycle affect the S&P 500?
Strong rebound that followed that period.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:34
2
What did the Fed’s latest rate hike signal for the market?
0:34–1:58
3
How many Fed hiking cycles have occurred since 1980 and what’s their typical length?
1:58–3:09
4
What have past cycles taught us about recession odds after a rate‑hike start?
3:09–4:33
5
How did the 2022‑2023 aggressive rate‑hike cycle affect the S&P 500?
4:33–6:19
6
Why might Middle‑East tensions and oil prices influence future inflation?
6:19–7:30
7
What does the Fed Chair’s “removing a dose of accommodation” comment imply for upcoming hikes?
7:30–8:24
8
Will this Fed hiking cycle be shorter and shallower than previous ones?
8:24–8:27
Speakers
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