The biggest Fed rate hike in 40 years? It could be coming next week.

Link: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-biggest-fed-rate-hike-in-40-years-it-might-be-coming-11663097227

Excerpt:

After another dismal U.S. inflation report, economists at the brokerage Nomura Securities on Tuesday became the first on Wall Street DJIA, 0.12% to predict a full-percentage-point increase in the Fed’s benchmark short-term rate.

“We continue to believe markets underappreciate just how entrenched U.S. inflation has become and the magnitude of response that will likely be required from the Fed to dislodge it,” the economists at Nomura wrote in a report to clients.

The last time the Fed made such a drastic move was in the early 1980s — another period marked by sky-high inflation.

At each of the last two meetings, the monetary-policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee raised the targeted rate by 0.75 point.

Author(s): Jeffry Bartash

Publication Date: 13 Sept 2022

Publication Site: MarketWatch