Markets raise odds for Federal Reserve rate hike after inflation report
The post Markets raise odds for Federal Reserve rate hike after inflation report appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The rate cut party that markets spent all of 2024 anticipating has officially been uninvited. Fresh inflation data has pushed traders to price in something that seemed unthinkable just months ago: the Federal Reserve might actually raise interest rates. US headline CPI climbed to 3.8% year-over-year in April, hitting a nearly three-year high. Paired with March’s PCE reading, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, showing headline inflation at 3.5% and core PCE at 3.2%, the picture becomes harder to ignore. The pivot from pivot Market predictions currently indicate a 44% chance of a Fed rate hike before July 2027. Perhaps more telling, traders see no cuts happening before that date either. Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee has acknowledged that rate hikes are now on the table as a policy option. That’s notable because Goolsbee has generally been considered one of the m