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Featured topics:
- Fed Policy Meeting
- MSCI Real Capital Analytics
- Apartment Investment Market Index
- Global Supply Chain Pressure Index
- Consumers Cut Back On Dining
- NAIOP Office Space Demand Forecast
- Independent Landlord Rental Performance
- NFIB Small Business Survey
- Chicago Fed National Activity Index
- CMBS Delinquencies
1. FED POLICY MEETING
• At its latest policy meeting on June 15th, the FOMC raised the Federal Funds rate by 75 bps to a range of 1.5%-1.75%, its steepest rate hike since 1994. The move follows a May inflation rate of 8.5%.
• The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell during the week out of fears that an increasingly aggressive Fed could tip the US economy into recession.
• The most recent Summary of Economic Projections forecasts a 3.4% year-end Fed-funds rate, a 150 bps increase from the March-meeting forecast. Officials also cut their 2022 GDP growth outlook to 1.7% from 2.8% in March. Officials see inflation easing in 2023, with an average forecast of 2.7% core PCE, but this forecast has remained unchanged since the initial March rate hike.
• The stock market initially rose after the policy release but fell later in the week as pessimism around tightening’s impact on growth rattled investor sentiment. The S&P 500 finished up 0.2% on Friday but fell 5.8% over the week.
