A Week of Repricings

WEEKLY MARKET REVIEW

A Week of Repricings

Monday, February 27, 2023 By Vincent David-Robin

Last week saw a continuation and an acceleration of the trends of the week before. It was the third week in a row that the S&P closed in the red – something that does not happen very frequently. The week was dominated once again by repricing of interest rate expectations in the US.


The favoured measure of inflation for the Fed – the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) – proved to be higher than expected. That followed the prior release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the previous week, that showed the same thing happen in that week.


Once that data was released, market participants revised the trajectory of rate rises by the Fed. From mid-January till now, rates expectations for 2024 have risen by 125 basis points: from 3.5% to 4.75% – an enormous jump! Markets are now pricing a terminal rate at around 5.4%.


Still, given these substantial repricings, equities are proving resilient. On average, the US equity markets lost 3% last week; and the European ones, 2%. But all equity markets are still up on the year.


This is the first week when fixed income and equity markets are showing a substantial disconnect. If fixed income markets are correct in their assumption of the future path of rates rises then the odds are that economies could go into recession. It is akin to taking away the punch bowl.


The more probable path would be for equities to continue drifting down while interest rates pause at the current level.


Irrespective of outcome, the price action will remain choppy till there is some clarity about inflation.

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