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    1. How will the FOMC begin to reduce policy support?

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    How will the FOMC begin to reduce policy support?

    11/04/2021

    Jordan Jackson

    While markets continue to be more aggressive in their expectations of rate hikes next year, we think the Fed will be much more patient in tightening policy than their developed market peers.

    Jordan Jackson

    Jordan Jackson

    Global Market Strategist

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    11/04/2021

    At the November Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, the committee voted to maintain the current Federal funds target rate at a range of 0.00%–0.25% and officially announced its plans to taper its net asset purchases by $15bn per month beginning in mid-November. Compositionally, the committee will reduce its purchases of U.S. Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed securities by $10 billion and $5 billion per month, respectively. This strategy suggests the FOMC will conclude tapering in June 2022 and begin reinvesting maturing securities in order to keep the balance sheet level.

    During the press conference, Chairman Jerome Powell acknowledged the challenges this highly uncertain outlook presents policymakers. With that said, we took away a few key points from the Chair’s comments:

    • Tapering does not imply raising interest rates is imminent. The committee appears to be putting a bigger emphasis on reaching maximum employment next year as a necessary condition to consider rate hikes. This condition, of course, could be met, but there is still ground to cover.

    • It seems increasingly clear that the committee would like to see labor force participation rates rise before rate liftoff.

    • Transitory inflation does not mean “short-lived”, i.e. investors have mistakenly assigned a 3-6 month window for higher inflationary pressures to abate; but rather transitory means temporary price fluctuations that are not expected leave a permanent shift – up or down – on long-run inflation.

    • Supply-side constraints are expected to last well into 2022 and the committee expects inflation should begin to normalize in the second half of next year.

    Investors should not be surprised by today’s announcement. The Fed has been transparent in its communication around when the committee could begin tapering. It should be emphasized though, that tapering is not tightening, and while purchases will slow in the months ahead, the balance sheet will still expand by roughly $400 billion from now until mid-2022 and settle at around $9 trillion.

    Lastly, we suspect employment and price conditions will be met to warrant a rate hike in 4Q22. While markets continue to be more aggressive in their expectations of rate hikes next year, we think the Fed will be much more patient in tightening policy than their developed market peers.

    Size of the Federal Reserve Balance Sheet
    USD trillions

    Source: Federal Reserve Board. Forecast assumes the Federal Reserve reduces its pace of monthly purchases by $15bn/mo. beginning in mid-November 2021 and concluding in June 2022 based on most recent November FOMC policy announcement. The balance sheet remains stable thereafter. Data are as of November 3, 2021.

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