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Bond investors are buying longer-term maturities up to 10-year debt and ramping up bets on a steeper yield curve, anticipating that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this week after a nine-month pause.
Traders in the federal-funds-futures market saw an increased chance of three potential interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve this year, as they assessed Thursday's data on inflation and initial jobless claims.
Investors have been piling cash into money-market funds because of their low risk and attractive interest rates.
Markets are fully pricing in a 25-basis-point-cut on Wednesday, but have reined in expectations of a jumbo 50 bps reduction to just 3.8%, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool.
The Federal Reserve is positioning itself for an interest rate cut in September, though it’s not a sure thing. At its latest meeting, the central bank kept the ...
BENGALURU (Reuters) -A Federal Reserve interest rate cut in September, the first this year, followed perhaps by another before year-end remains the base forecast for most economists polled by Reuters amid rising concerns about the health of the world's ...
The two Federal Reserve policymakers who dissented against the central bank decision’s to leave interest rates unchanged last month appear not to have been joined by other policymakers in voicing support for lowering rates at that meeting, a readout of ...