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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks Thursday on a panel presented by the International Monetary Fund. CNBC’s Sara Eisen will moderate the talk.
The event is part of the IMF’s Debate on the Global Economy. Participants also will include European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde along with representatives from the IMF, Indonesia and Barbados.
With inflation running at 40-year highs, rising prices are seen as the biggest danger to economic growth in the pandemic era. Like other global central banks, the Powell Fed is expected to tighten monetary policy considerably this year, with a series of interest rate hikes and a reduction in asset holdings.
Other Fed officials this week mostly said they want to combat inflation without going so far as to derail the recovery. Markets expect a series of rate hikes and a reduction in assets at a pace that eventually could reach $95 billion a month.
Initial jobless claims last week were a bit higher than expected but still reflective of a labor market where employers are loathe to fire workers.
First-time claims for benefits in the week ended April 16 totaled 184,000, a decline of 2,000 from the previous week but just ahead of the Dow Jones estimate for 182,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
The numbers indicate the U.S. employment picture remains historically tight as job openings outnumber the available labor pool by about 5 million.
Continuing claims, which run a week behind the headline number, fell by 58,000 to 1.417 million, the lowest level since Feb. 21, 1970.
A separate economic report Thursday showed that manufacturing expanded in the Philadelphia area in April, but at a slower pace than expected.
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve’s monthly manufacturing index registered a 17.6 reading, representing the difference between companies seeing expansion versus contraction. That was a decline of nearly 10 points from March and below the Dow Jones estimate of 21.9.
Measures of new orders, shipments, unfilled orders, delivery times and the average employee workweek showed declines from March. However, prices paid and prices received both increased, reflecting continued inflation pressures, while the number of employees index also gained.
On Wednesday, the Fed’s “Beige Book” summary of economic conditions around the U.S. noted the difficulty companies are having finding workers.
“Demand for workers continued to be strong across most Districts and industry sectors. But hiring was held back by the overall lack of available workers, though several Districts reported signs of modest improvement in worker availability,” the report said. “Many firms reported significant turnover as workers left for higher wages and more flexible job schedules.”
Fed officials are responding to the inflation surge with an expected series of interest rate hikes that they hope won’t derail the 2-year-old economic recovery. Markets expect the central bank’s benchmark overnight borrowing rate to rise to about 2.5% this year from near zero where it stood at the outset of 2022.
The jobless claims numbers reflect the continued progress in hiring. The total of those receiving benefits dropped to 1.62 million, as of data through April 2. A year ago, that total was 17.4 million, a number pared as the government has restricted extended unemployment benefits and as hiring accelerated following the release of Covid vaccines and a sharp drop in virus cases.
Still, the labor market hasn’t quite caught up to its pre-pandemic self.
Even though the unemployment rate has fallen to 3.6%, there are 408,000 fewer Americans working than in February 2020, just before the pandemic hit. The labor market also is smaller by 174,000 and the labor force participation rate is a full percentage point below its pre-Covid level.
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San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly acknowledged Wednesday that a near-certain series of interest rate hikes over the coming months could tip the economy into a shallow recession, though she noted that isn’t her expectation.
Responding to the worst inflation the U.S. has seen in more than 40 years, the central bank official said she foresees “an expeditious march” through the year toward benchmark interest rates that would neither stimulate nor repress growth — the “neutral” rate, in Fed parlance.
“Accounting for the risks of being too fast or too slow, I see an expeditious march to neutral by the end of the year as a prudent path,” she said.
The moves, Daly said, would help slow down an overheated economy that now has consumer price inflation running at an 8.5% annual pace.
She cited research from Princeton economist and former Fed vice chair Alan Blinder, who asserted that in 11 previous Fed hiking cycles, seven “were followed by a mild recession or none at all — basically a smooth landing,” she said in remarks at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. “Now, since I’m in Las Vegas, I will offer that I think those are pretty good odds.”
Asked later whether she considered a mild recession to be the equivalent of a soft landing or acceptable outcome, Daly said her outlook is for the economy to slow to “something that looks like below-trend growth, but not tip into negative territory, but could potentially tick into negative territory.”
That likely would mean a shallow recession, unlike those associated with, for instance, the financial crisis of 2008 or the stagflation days of the late 1970s and early ’80s, when then-Chairman Paul Volcker jacked up rates so much that the economy fell into a double-dip recession.
Some Wall Street economists see recession risks rising. Deutsche Bank recently said it sees a near-certainty of negative growth, while Goldman Sachs indicated about a 35% chance over the next two years.
“Recession is one word, but it describes a whole range of outcomes,” Daly said in response to a CNBC question. “It can be a couple of quarters of a tiny bit below zero. That’s a very different beast than something like the financial crisis or the Volcker disinflation period.”
“That’s not something that I’m forecasting or something I think would derail the long-run expansion,” she added.
Markets currently expect the Fed to enact a series of aggressive interest rate hikes between now and the end of the year. Following a 25 basis point, or quarter percentage point, increase in March, the expectation is a series of 50 basis point moves then a slowdown that will take the benchmark fed funds rate to about 2.5% by the end of the year, according to CME Group data.
Earlier in the day, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said “I’m open to doing 50 basis point increases in order to front-load this a little bit.” St. Louis Fed President James Bullard on Monday said he’d like to move even faster and thinks a 75 basis point move next month would be appropriate, though traders are pricing in no chance of that happening.
For her part, Daly said she doesn’t want the Fed to slam on the brakes too quickly as that could endanger the pandemic-era recovery, which has been strong outside of the historic inflation move.
“If we ease on the brakes by methodically removing accommodation and regularly assessing how much more is needed, we have a good chance of transitioning smoothly and gliding the economy to its long-run sustainable path,” she said.
