Fed July minutes signal willingness to hike if inflation stalls; Chair Walsh floats fewer policy meetings
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The Fed's July minutes signal a more hawkish bias: multiple officials favor additional hikes if inflation progress stalls, and no participants supported rate cuts. This keeps policy restrictive and raises the bar for easing, pressuring risk assets and supporting the dollar via higher-for-longer rate differentials. Softer July payrolls slightly reduces near-term hike urgency, shifting expectations toward later meetings, but doesn't change the tightening bias.
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Jinshi Data reported that minutes from the Federal Reserve's July meeting show several officials said interest rates should be raised if inflation stops moving toward the 2% goal, aiming to avoid being pushed into "larger and more costly" tightening later. The record also showed no officials backing rate cuts. Hawkish sentiment strengthened, and even some nonvoting participants leaned toward additional hikes.
Separately, Fed Chair Walsh proposed trimming the number of policy meetings each year to six from eight. Any adjustment would not take effect before 2027.
On the labor market, nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000 in July. The data has led markets to price in a later start to any further rate increases, with expectations shifting to the October meeting or even December.
