250bp of “shock and awe” rate cuts from the US Federal Reserve does not seem warranted

Westpac point out that while major downward revisions to US payrolls estimates have injected a little more urgency into the US situation over the last month, the pricing in of close to 250bps in cuts by this time next year in extreme:

• that sort of ‘shock and awe’ easing does not seem warranted

WPAC is looking for easing to be a bit more orderly, nominating 200bps of cuts:

• US labour market may be weaker than it appeared but the data suggests it is far from capitulating
• Markets are clearly struggling to work out what the policy path looks like for a central bank that is no longer fearful of inflation but still not overly concerned about weak growth

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This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.