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Fed Hiking Rates to 6.5% Is ‘Real Risk’ for UBS Strategists
50, 75, 100?
Wall Street pushes out rate-cut expectations, sees risk they don’t start until March 2025
Mortgage rates climbed above 7% for the first time this year as traders re-evaluated the odds for interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate this week was 7.1%, according to Freddie Mac It was the highest rate since late November, and the sharpest week-over-week increase since early June
Al_Sharpton_for_President says
Mortgage rates climbed above 7% for the first time this year as traders re-evaluated the odds for interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate this week was 7.1%, according to Freddie Mac It was the highest rate since late November, and the sharpest week-over-week increase since early June
But the Fed Experts on PatNet said...
From what I could decipher from the 60 Minute interview with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, the Fed will lower rates when the CPI's and PCE's 6 month average for annual inflation are below 3%.
Feds cut rates a half a point.
The housing collapse happens by the end of Q2 2025.
Homeloaners are expecting millions to start bidding on houses and it's not going to happen. Those who are able and willing to buy are saying "Ah... they Fed will cut rates MOAR next year, and what's the hurry with all the inventory piling on?"
Yet still again, the fed does the wrong thing and lowers interest rates by .25%
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"Historically, the US central bank has avoided surprising markets – say, by going 75bp when it is not priced in," Barclays economists led by Jonathan Millar said in a note to clients published Friday.
"But next week, we feel, is likely to be an exception."
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