The U.S. Federal Reserve cut the short-term Fed Funds Rate by 1% in 2024 and another 50 basis points in 2025. With the employment market weak and stocks under pressure, the odds of another 25 ...
Traders are rushing into futures tied to the Fed’s overnight benchmark rate as fears grow that short-term funding could dry up before the quarter ends. On Wednesday in New York, nearly 500,000 fed ...
Short-term interest rates are supposed to be the cleanest readout of monetary policy, yet a growing chorus of specialists is warning that some of these gauges are behaving in ways that do not line up ...
NEW YORK, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Conflicting signals from the Federal Reserve on the timing and magnitude of U.S. interest rate cuts have accelerated hedging flows into swaptions and derivatives tied to ...
The Federal Reserve's policy committee is scheduled to meet next in late January, after cutting the Fed's key interest rate ...
The Federal Reserve’s rate cut will reduce investor returns, yet money market funds remain a good deal, our columnist says. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, ...
If the president had gotten his way, inflation would surely be rocketing again, the economy would be overheating and the Fed would have to raise short-term rates again Fed Chair Jerome Powell refused ...