Monday’s range for UST 10y: 4.29% – 4.40%, closing at 4.32%
Monday’s range for UST 30y: 4.83% – 4.92%, closing at 4.86%
Fed’s Bowman:says July rate cut is possible
Fed’s Goolsbee:says if tariff dirt in air clears, we should proceed with cut
Intraday Commentary from Jim Bianco
Are we witnessing the BEGINNING of a Fed mutiny, led by two Trump appointees, Bowman and Waller, and driven by Trump’s persistent demands for rate cuts? The chart below shows the probabilities of a July cut. It was just 8% right after Powell’s presser last week. Then Waller spoke on Friday:
*FED’S WALLER: COULD CUT RATES AS EARLY AS JULY MEETING
Bowman early this morning: *FED’S BOWMAN: OPEN TO CUTTING RATES AS SOON AS JULY FOMC MEETING IF INFLATION PRESSURES STAY CONTAINED
Now it is 25% for a July cut, implying this meeting MIGHT BE in play. Is everyone at the FOMC on the same page? Will Powell squash dissenters? If not, will the July meeting have several dissents?
Does this type of mutiny (Fed style) give Trump an opening to fire Powell? Are Waller and Bowman just angling to be Trump’s pick for the next Fed Chairman?
Postscript: Another person angling to be the next Fed Chairman also weighed in today.
*HASSETT: WALLER, TRUMP ARE RIGHT ABOUT INTEREST RATES
Restated, is this the beginning of the “Shadow Fed,” where Powell loses control of the FOMC to those who want his job? — Why should you care about this? Because it implies that Trump and political considerations, more than economic considerations, are driving monetary policy.
Crude oil is now down almost 10% from its opening trade Sunday night.
Today is a massive outside day on the daily bar chart … typically a pattern of a major reversal.
Jim Bianco joins Bloomberg Radio to discuss Tariff-Driven Inflation, TINA & American Exceptionalism
Jim Bianco joins Fox Business to Discuss a Fed Cut in July, Powell’s Pivot & Iran’s Retaliation