MS says no Fed hikes before 2016

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From Morgan Stanley via Forexlive:

  • Predicts the Fed will not tighten until 2016
  • Says the Federal Reserve Bank recognises that there are “the asymmetric risks to hiking too soon vs. hiking later when rates are at the lower bound”
  •  “Accommodative central banks raise a strong possibility of global reflation. The global growth backdrop continues to improve”

Global reflation? Not as Chinese, EM growth and commodity prices keep falling. I can see global stock market inflation continuing, though, if MS is right about the Fed, which is a strong chance.

2016 is the US presidential election year, which traditionally boosts growth, so a couple of rate hikes in 2016 seems a fair assessment before the inevitable…

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.