{"id":196401,"date":"2023-09-18T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/?p=196401"},"modified":"2023-09-18T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T20:17:21","slug":"looking-ahead-to-wednesdays-fomc-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/looking-ahead-to-wednesdays-fomc-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Ahead to Wednesday&#8217;s FOMC Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some of us rarely stop thinking about the Federal Reserve (ugh), so even two days prior, it\u2019s not too soon to consider what might occur during and after Wednesday\u2019s FOMC meeting.&nbsp; Although few fireworks are expected, investors are hoping for some improved clarity about the rates picture going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of today, Monday, it appears that market expectations for this meeting are minimal.&nbsp; There is literally no expectation for a hike this week.&nbsp; OK, it\u2019s technically not zero per se, but I would assert that when Fed Funds futures show a 0.8% chance, that\u2019s as close to zero as practicable.&nbsp;&nbsp; Rate hike probabilities for upcoming meetings are also modest, with November currently showing 32% and December showing 46% chances of a 25-basis point hike.&nbsp; Bottom line, the market has decided that we may or may not get one more hike by the end of the year, and it\u2019s essentially a coin flip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead to next year, futures have priced in a cut as soon as June-July of next year, with July futures implying a near certainty for a 25-bp cut and another one to three likely by the end of 2024.\u00a0 After spending most of this year pushing back upon the Fed\u2019s resolve to maintain rates through 2023, it appears that the market\u2019s expectation is broadly in line with the FOMC\u2019s last Summary of Economic Projections (SEP), commonly referred to as the \u201cDot Plot\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"712\" data-src=\"\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Picture1-18.png\" alt=\"FOMC participants' assessments of appropriate monetary policy\" class=\"wp-image-196402 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Picture1-18.png 760w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Picture1-18-700x656.png 700w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Picture1-18-300x281.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 760px; aspect-ratio: 760\/712;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/monetarypolicy\/files\/fomcprojtabl20230614.pdf\"><em>Summary of Economic Projections, June 14, 2023 (federalreserve.gov)<\/em><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SEP is updated every other meeting, so traders will be eagerly poring over the fresh dot plot when it is released on Wednesday.&nbsp; The median projection for year-end 2023 is currently 5.625%, and 2024\u2019s median year-end projection is 4.625%.&nbsp; These are broadly consistent with the current Fed Funds futures\u2019 projections of 5.446% and 4.572%, respectively.&nbsp; Now that traders are generally in synch with Fed policymakers, any change in projections should be quickly incorporated into market expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question, of course, is how those might be interpreted.&nbsp; It is clear that equity traders love any hint of lower rates.&nbsp; It\u2019s a fixation, if not an addiction.&nbsp; But what if a lower rate path is predicated on broadly weaker economic projections?&nbsp; Will traders simply resume their usual pattern of hearing what they want to?&nbsp; Think about the market\u2019s reaction to Chair Powell\u2019s use of the word <a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/good-cop-bad-cop-fed-version\/\">\u201cneutral\u201d in July 2022<\/a> and <a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/region\/disinflation-is-the-new-neutral\/\">\u201cdisinflation\u201d last February<\/a>.&nbsp; In the former case, other Fed leaders <a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/good-cop-bad-cop-fed-version\/\">pushed back on \u201cneutral\u201d almost immediately<\/a>, while in the latter, we had a <a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/region\/disinflation-is-the-new-neutral\/\">stellar two-day rally<\/a> until the January Payrolls report brought it to an abrupt end on Friday of that week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the relatively somnolent, if not outright complacent, nature of volatility over the past few months, it should be unsurprising that equity market reactions to recent FOMC meetings have been less volatile as well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"742\" data-src=\"\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Picture2-7.png\" alt=\"1 and 3 day changes after previous FOMC meetings\" class=\"wp-image-196403 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Picture2-7.png 936w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Picture2-7-700x555.png 700w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Picture2-7-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Picture2-7-768x609.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 936px; aspect-ratio: 936\/742;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Interactive Brokers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice how the 1-day and 3-day close-to-close and the 3-day high\/low percentage changes have all been relatively modest and steadily declining after the past few meetings.&nbsp; Have we simply gotten better pricing the potential outcomes of FOMC meetings and press conferences, or do we simply care less? &nbsp;As we look back toward the implied volatility term structure for the S&amp;P 500 (SPX) ahead of this week\u2019s meeting vis-\u00e0-vis the prior two, we see that volatility assumptions for the Wednesday of the meeting have declined from 18.825% in June to 14.7% in July to 13.65% today.<a href=\"#_edn1\" id=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; Bearing in mind the \u201c<a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/options\/understand-the-rule-of-16\/\">Rule of 16<\/a>,\u201d those roughly imply one-day average moves of 1.18%, 0.92% and the current 0.85%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-spx-term-structure-of-implied-volatilities-june-12-th-2023-blue-july-24-th-2023-peach-september-18-th-2023-yellow\"><strong><em>SPX, Term Structure of Implied Volatilities, June 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 2023 (blue), July 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 2023 (peach), September 18<sup>th<\/sup>, 2023 (yellow)<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"650\" data-src=\"\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Picture3-5.png\" alt=\"SPX, Term Structure of Implied Volatilities, June 12th, 2023 (blue), July 24th, 2023 (peach), September 18th, 2023 (yellow)\" class=\"wp-image-196404 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Picture3-5.png 936w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Picture3-5-700x486.png 700w, 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