by bondevalue | Sep 27, 2017 | Financial News, HomePage, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
September’s FOMC meeting, which is the 6th this year, saw officials hold interest rates unchanged at 1.00-1.25 with consensus leaning towards a December hike. Perhaps more importantly, policy makers are seeking to avoid possible repeat of 2013 taper tantrum with...
by bondevalue | Sep 21, 2017 | Financial News, HomePage, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
In its recently concluded meeting last evening, the US Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee indicated that it would begin to trim its $4.5 trillion balance sheet next month. In a bid to revive the US economy, the Fed has been consistently buying securities via...
by bondevalue | Sep 19, 2017 | Financial News, HomePage, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
Expectations are for U.S. policy makers to hold rates steady at the Federal Reserve’s 2-day meeting on September 19-20. Instead, the focus will be on whether officials announce that they will start reducing the central banks’ US$4.5 trillion balance...
by bondevalue | Sep 12, 2017 | Financial News, HomePage, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
U.S Treasury prices started the week lower alongside other safe assets as Hurricane Irma weakened and after early estimates suggested that damage from would be less severe than initially feared. The yields on 10-year Treasuries posted their biggest one-day rise since...
by bondevalue | Sep 10, 2017 | Financial News, HomePage, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
The latest U.S. Federal Reserve Beige Book survey last week showed a pickup in economic growth but inflation that remains muted, supporting market expectations that a third interest rate hike this year is unlikely. Economists anticipate that the Fed will hold its...
by bondevalue | Aug 28, 2017 | Financial News, HomePage, Interest Rate Trends, Macroeconomic news, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury Yield
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s comments that the financial system is more stable currently as compared to the last decade, after the onset of the financial crisis, prompted a rise in Treasury prices. She was speaking last Friday on the second day out...
