Lessons From Previous Fed Tightening Cycles In 2023

Douglas Rissing

By Sandrine Soubeyran and Robin Marshall, Global Investment Research, FTSE Russell

Lower US ostentation has reinforced expectations that nan US Fed’s tightening is astir done, prompting 10-year Treasuries to rally further successful January, and extending nan bull inversion of nan US 10s/2s curve. Chart 1 shows really 7-10-year US Treasury yields person fallen faster than 1-3-year yields, which person remained anchored by a further 75bp of Fed tightening astatine nan December and February FOMC meetings.

Another Greenspan conundrum successful 2022-2023?

Chart 1 besides shows that bull inversions of nan 10s/2s output curve, wherever agelong yields initially autumn faster than short yields, are emblematic of cyclical turning points successful Fed monetary policy. In 2004-07 – successful nan alleged Greenspan “conundrum” of longer-dated yields stabilising and falling arsenic nan Fed tightened – nan 10s/2s output curve inverted wholly successful beforehand of nan world financial situation (GFC). There are besides some intriguing parallels betwixt nan 2004-07 play pinch 2022-23. In 2004-2007, power prices roseate sharply, and nan labour marketplace continued to tighten, pinch unemployment falling from astir 6.0% to 4.0% ─ a akin diminution to nan autumn from 6% successful 2021 to 3.4% successful January 2023, a 53-year debased (Chart 2).

The gait of Fed tightening has been overmuch faster successful 2022-2023

As nan labour marketplace continued to fortify and US economical activity expanded astatine a beardown rate, nan Greenspan Fed removed its argumentation accommodation successful 2005-07, and accrued nan target scope for nan Federal costs complaint gradually via 17 increments of 25bp, complete 2 years. This 4.25% of tightening, is simply a very akin magnitude of tightening to nan 4.50% by which nan Fed has raised liking rates truthful acold successful 2022/23, and from a akin starting constituent connected Fed funds, but wrong a overmuch shorter play of 11 months, much than doubly arsenic accelerated arsenic nan 2005-07 tightening cycle. Indeed, Chart 3 shows nan tempo of Fed tightening successful 2022/23 has acold exceeded that of erstwhile cycles this century.

Higher for longer US costs ostentation is nan evident tail consequence to nan soft-landing scenario…

This raises nan mobility connected whether nan cardinal lawsuit of a soft landing (versus a deeper recession), apparently discounted by markets, tin beryllium achieved. One obvious, high-profile, tail consequence stems from nan tightening of nan US labour market, aft unemployment fell to a 53-year debased successful January (3.4%), arsenic Chart 2 shows. The Fed could find itself forced to tighten much aggressively than predicted, should costs ostentation stay sticky, leaving a higher terminal complaint for Fed Funds, than nan 5.1-5.4% presently projected from nan December dot plots.

…but nan 2005-07 section suggests over-tightening risks should not beryllium discounted

This consequence to nan soft-landing script has a higher floor plan aft nan caller surge successful January payrolls, but nan labour marketplace is simply a lagging indicator, and location is different tail consequence that nan 2005-07 tightening section reveals, which has been mostly ignored to date. This is because nan Fed overdoes nan monetary tightening, by focussing connected lagging indicators for illustration nan labour marketplace and inflation, and a deeper recession ensues successful 2023/24, arsenic it did successful 2008-09. Persistent inversion of nan 10s/2s output curve and its beardown forecasting grounds successful predicting US recessions intends that this consequence cannot beryllium discounted.

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