by bondevalue | Feb 21, 2019 | Interest Rate Trends
In the minutes to their January 29-30th meeting, Federal Reserve officials showed uncertainty towards the direction of interest rates in 2019 while widely favouring the end of the reduction in the central bank’s balance sheet. Launched as an emergency measure...
by bondevalue | Jan 4, 2019 | Interest Rate Trends
The benchmark 10-year U.S. government bond hit an 11-month low on 2 January of 2.62%, beginning the year down nearly 50% from its 2018 high of 3.25%, amid concerns about a global growth slowdown. Investors had switched into safe-haven investments like Treasuries and...
by bondevalue | Dec 20, 2018 | Financial News, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank
The U.S. Federal Reserve defied President Donald Trump to raise interest rates for the fourth time in 2018, by a quarter percentage point to 2.25% to 2.5%, at the recent FOMC meetings on 18-19 December. The FOMC vote was unanimous, with all four of the Fed governors...
by bondevalue | Dec 10, 2018 | Financial News, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
Fed Governor Lael Brainard, speaking on the last day before officials enter a blackout period for public comment ahead of their 18-19 December meeting, reiterated an argument for more gradual rate hikes in the “near term”, a message that her colleagues...
by bondevalue | Dec 7, 2018 | Financial News, Interest Rate Trends, U.S. Treasury Yield
The yield curve between the 2-year and 5-year U.S. Treasury inverted on Tuesday, causing some panic amongst investors, as an inverted yield curve has traditionally been the bond market’s signal of a recession. The market fears that a yield curve inversion would...
by bondevalue | Nov 19, 2018 | Financial News, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
Last week at the Dallas Fed, Chairman Jerome Powell, while generally upbeat about the U.S. economic outlook, laid out a scenario for pausing in the central bank’s trajectory of interest rate hikes sometime in 2019 by highlighting potential headwinds to the...
