ING Global Economics Team
ING Economic and Financial Analysis
With milder weather, we expect further improvements in activity data in the US. Consumer spending will have jumped 2% in real terms, however we remain sceptical as to whether this indicates true strength. The Fed's favoured measure of inflation looks set to rise 0.4% month-on-month, more than twice what's required to produce 2% year-on-year inflation.
US: Nothing stopping the Fed from hiking rates in March
The warm weather in January, which contrasted starkly with the cold, wintery conditions of December, will continue to boost US activity data over the coming week. Home sales are likely going to get a lift with more people out and about early in the year home hunting, while we have got a very strong idea that consumer spending will have jumped by 2% in real terms given the 3% month-on-month increase in retail sales over the same period. However, we remain a little sceptical as to whether this indicates true strength given the big shifts in weather may have simply meant that spending that would have been done in February and March may have been brought forward, leaving open the possibility of a correction over the next couple of months. This won’t stop the Federal Reserve from hiking interest rates in March and in all probability May too. Indeed, the Fed’s favoured measure of inflation, the core personal consumer expenditure deflator, looks set to rise by 0.4 %MoM, more than twice the 0.17 %MoM required over time to produce year-on-year inflation of 2%.
Indeed, there will be several more Fed speakers over the coming week with the minutes of the February Federal Open Market Committee meeting also likely to reveal that they were not terribly far away from hiking rates by 50bp. Having done 25bp in February, we think this will be the standard incremental move from now on.
Eurozone: Recoveries in sentiment data
Lots of sentiment data out of the eurozone next week, which will shed light on how the economy is performing in February. Both consumer confidence and PMIs have been showing slight recovery in recent months and are expected to continue recovery at low levels. This should be in line with economic activity broadly stalling as it did in the fourth quarter.
Key events in developed markets next week
Source: Refinitiv, ING
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