Fed Set to Lead Uneasy G-7 With Rates Kept on Hold This Week

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• The combined G-7 rate hold outcome may amount to a firm reiteration by global monetary officials of their readiness to act, contrasting with the sanguine transitory inflation view of 2022

  60% confidence

• Senator Tillis is dropping his blockade of the nomination of Kevin Warsh following DOJ ending its Federal Reserve investigation

  60% confidence

• The Fed, ECB, BOE, BOJ, and BOC will probably leave policy rates unchanged amid persistent and volatile US-Iran tensions; the Fed will hold rates steady until Q4 while the ECB and BOE keep the option to hike open

  60% confidence

• The Fed policy meeting this week may well be the last for Jerome Powell as head of the US central bank

  60% confidence

• Iran will not negotiate on peace talks as long as it is being threatened

  60% confidence

• Three days of central bank decisions across Washington, Ottawa, London, Frankfurt, and Tokyo are widely anticipated to result in unchanged borrowing costs across G-7 nations

  60% confidence

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