President Joe Biden’s administration on Monday was already warning that the Consumer Price Index report for March, due out early Tuesday, would reveal inflation rising at an “extraordinarily elevated” pace.
Now traders are assessing the potential impact of the balance sheet reduction – referred to as “quantitative tightening” – along with multiple interest-rate hikes of 50 basis points each, according to Lucas Outumuro, head of research at IntoTheBlock.
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