With UK government bonds leading the way, US Treasuries recovered some of last week's losses. Despite an early setback in the corporate bond market at the start of the week, Amazon issued $12 billion in dollar-denominated bonds (its first dollar bond offering since 2022)...
Steve Eisman, who became famous for accurately predicting the 2008 U.S. housing crash, has recently become more optimistic about the market. After the Federal Reserve announced its decision to cut interest rates on Wednesday, Eisman said in an interview with CNBC that he did not think the current round of Fed rate cuts would last long. "At the end of the day, I think the Fed at most...
The median value of the Federal Reserve's June dot matrix shows that the Federal Reserve expects to cut interest rates twice in 2025, 25 basis points each time, consistent with March expectations. It is expected that interest rates will be cut once in 2026, 25 basis points each time, a decrease from the two times in March. It is expected that interest rates will be cut once in 2027, 25 basis points each time, consistent with March expectations.
The Federal Reserve's Bostic: We still expect two rate cuts this year, but there is a lot of uncertainty.
European Central Bank Governing Council member Simkus expressed his support for the expectation of three more interest rate cuts in 2025. The direction of interest rates is clear, and the next move is also clear. There is no good reason for not cutting interest rates in March.
The meeting notes did not give the prospect of a rate cut, but investment banks believe that most of the uncertainty will be resolved before the May meeting. The US index rebounded and fell back, maintaining a downward outlook until this level is broken.
On Monday, Ms Bauman said she wanted to see more progress on inflation reflected in the data before further rate cuts. While she expected inflation to continue to decelerate this year, she said disinflation was "likely to take longer than we expect". Click to view...
On February 13, short-term interest rate futures in the United States rose, and the market bet on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in July increased, but the market still believes that a rate cut in September is more likely.
Federal Reserve officials are cautious about the prospect of a rate cut. Goolsby said tariffs could affect inflation and supply chains, and Barkin pointed to the complex impact of tariffs on inflation and demand. Click to view...