Nordea Bank: Trigger needed for US recession

Nordea Markets analyst suggest that the markets require a trigger for the expected US slowdown to become a recession, be it a housing market crash like for the 2008-09 recession, an equity market fall-out like for the 2001 recession, or from the Fed tightening too much like for those in 1980 and 1990.

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“Further rate hikes are needed for Fed to be the trigger this time around. An alternative trigger would be if Fed makes overly optimistic choices regarding balance sheet policies, with a continuation of a slower & passive version of quantitative tightening (QT).”