by bondevalue | Feb 1, 2018 | Financial News, HomePage, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
Federal Reserve officials met yesterday for the last time under Chair Janet Yellen, voting unanimously to leave borrowing costs unchanged, as was expected by the markets. In the FOMC statement however, the word “further” was added twice to previous...
by bondevalue | Jan 4, 2018 | Financial News, HomePage, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
The minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee’s 12th-13th December meeting revealed that most participants continue to support a “gradual approach to raising the target range” for the benchmark policy rate. Federal Reserve officials voted during the meeting...
by bondevalue | Dec 19, 2017 | Bank of England, European Central Bank, Financial News, HomePage, Macroeconomic news
Joining the spew of global central banks that have, in the past week, hiked interest rates or put out statements that they will do so in the near future, the Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to start lifting rates in the second quarter of 2018 by Ellerston...
by bondevalue | Dec 9, 2017 | Financial News, HomePage, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
Providing the latest snapshot of the American economy, the U.S. Labor Department released its monthly nonfarm payrolls (“NFP”) jobs report on Friday morning U.S. time. Data showed that employers hired workers at a healthy rate in November, with NFP rising a...
by bondevalue | Nov 27, 2017 | Financial News, HomePage, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the congressional Joint Economic Committee in Washington this week, leading a busy lineup of central bankers speaking this week, together with Yellen’s nominated successor Jerome Powell. Amongst the topics hotly...
by bondevalue | Nov 7, 2017 | Bank of England, Financial News, HomePage, Macroeconomic news
Bank of England (“BOE”) policy makers raised interest rates in the U.K. for the first time in a decade last Thursday, voting to increase the benchmark rate to 0.5% from 0.25%. In support of this, the central bank notes that it expects inflation to have...
