The Dollar Bottom – Goldman Sachs

By FXStreet US Economics team of Goldman Sachs on Friday trimmed their expectations for Fed hikes, dropping the June hike for next month and removing a March hike from 2017.

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“Overall, their hiking profile is therefore 50 bp less over the next 18 months, though it remains the case that the cumulative tightening they foresee by end-2017 (125 bp) dwarfs what interest rate futures now price on that horizon (35 bp). Seen from the perspective of our Dollar forecast, which is for the Dollar to rise 15 percent over the next two years as US monetary policy is normalized, what matters is the overall hiking cycle. Here, our Economists have kept their expectation for the terminal rate unchanged at 3.38 percent, so that their forecast change makes the hiking cycle a bit slower (by two quarters), but not smaller. We therefore see some near-term downside risk to our bullish Dollar view, but less change to the long-run fundamental view.

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Source:: FX Street