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Are markets right to reassess the Fed rate outlook?

We still expect that domestic economic conditions will prompt the Fed to hike its policy rate a further three times this year and twice in the first half of next year. But that view is based on the assumptions that the Italian situation doesn’t descend into a full-blown crisis and that President Trump’s protectionist bark once again proves to be worse than his bite.

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