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...
by bondevalue | Nov 16, 2018 | Financial News, Interest Rate Trends, U.S. Treasury Yield
A bond’s yield or return is one of the key things that investors assess when evaluating the quality of a bond investment. However, there are many ways in which bond yields are expressed, making it difficult for an investor to understand and compare the target returns...
by bondevalue | Sep 17, 2018 | Financial News, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
Yields on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note topped 3% on Friday, 14 September for the first time since 2 August and continued to fall early this week as investors weighed conflicting data on the economy and Federal Reserve policy. Yields have been creeping up...
by bondevalue | Aug 27, 2018 | Financial News, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, speaking at the Kansas City Fed’s annual policy symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, confirmed that the strength of U.S. economic expansion justifies gradually raising interest rates. This is Powell’s first speech as Fed chief...
