How Should We React to Fed Hawkishness?
What’s in Today’s Report:
- How Should We React to Fed Hawkishness?
- Weekly Market Preview: All About the Fed (Powell testifies Tuesday, Brainard testifies on Thursday).
- Weekly Economic Cheat Sheet: All About Inflation (CPI Wednesday is the Key Report).
Futures are slightly lower following a generally quiet weekend as investors digest last week’s hawkish surprises ahead of Powell’s testimony tomorrow and CPI on Wednesday.
Economically, the only notable number was Eurozone Unemployment, which met expectations at 7.2%.
Chances of Build Back Better passing fell further over the weekend as according to the Washington Post, Manchin remains against the current framework for the plan.
Today there are no economic reports and just one Fed speaker, Bostic (12:00 p.m. ET), so we’d not be surprised to see markets churn ahead the three major catalysts coming later this week: Powell’s testimony on Tuesday, Wednesday’s CPI Report, and Brainard’s testimony on Thursday. Those three events will determine whether stocks rally of decline this week and any additional hawkish surprises will pressure stocks.
