April 19, 2022 Headlines

Front-end Treasury yields are up another 8-10 basis points after St. Louis Fed President James Bullard refused to rule out a 0.75% rate hike during a speech late yesterday. While he acknowledged that “it is not my base case” regarding a greater than 0.5% hike, it would seem that Bullard isn’t satisfied with the 100 bps of rate hikes the market has already priced in for the next two meetings or he still isn’t aware of the power of Fedspeak on market pricing. We would lean toward the former explanation, and Bullard did refer back to the 1994 cycle when the Fed raised rates 300 bps (3% to 6%) in a 12-month period while achieving a rare soft landing in the modern monetary policy era.  On a related note, the 10-year real, or inflation-adjusted, Treasury  yield is up 100 bps since early March and is now close to positive territory for the first time since the pre-Covid era.

Jason Haley
Chief Investment Officer

DateEventSurv(M)ActualPriorRevised
04/18/22NAHB Housing Market Index777779
04/19/22Housing Starts1740k1793k1769k1788k
04/19/22Building Permits1820k1873k1859k1865k
04/19/22Housing Starts MoM-1.60%0.30%6.80%6.50%
04/19/22Building Permits MoM-2.40%0.40%-1.90%-1.60%
04/20/22MBA Mortgage Applications-1.30%
04/20/22Existing Home Sales5.78m6.02m
04/20/22Existing Home Sales MoM-4.00%-7.20%
04/20/22U.S. Federal Reserve Releases Beige Book
04/21/22Philadelphia Fed Business Outlook21.727.4
04/21/22Initial Jobless Claims180k185k
04/21/22Continuing Claims1459k1475k
04/21/22Leading Index0.30%0.30%
04/22/22S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI5858.8
04/22/22S&P Global US Services PMI5858
04/22/22S&P Global US Composite PMI57.957.7

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