Markets price 50% chance of OCR cut: BNZ
BNZ has made the observation in its latest market outlook report, as the Reserve Bank ponders its decision ahead of next Wednesday's OCR and MPS.
Markets have become "undecided and twitchy" following the Fed's announcement it plans to make no further cuts in the near term.
"There has been a major recalibration of OCR expectations over the past week," the report says. "A week ago a November OCR cut was priced as a 90% chance. That probability now stands at 50%. The market’s conviction in a November OCR cut had already been slipping in recent weeks, in-line with the decline in RBA and Fed rate cut expectations and the big upside surprise to non-tradables inflation in the latest CPI report."
The bank's economists believe tomorrow's labour market data will be viewed as a key piece of information.
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