Tag: US Federal Reserve
Investor demand: Dollar weakness trumps French political instability
Despite a French sovereign debt downgrade to A+ by Fitch over the weekend, the euro has risen to new highs for the year (1.188)...
Insights & Analysis : Makeup removal time for Powell at Jackson...
The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, used the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium on 22 August to confirm a formal reset of the Fed policy...
CME Group: Expectation of rates rises for BoE in December 2021...
The CME Group’s central bank observations tools BoEWatch and FedWatch show that market expectations indicate increasing probability of a Bank of England rate rise...
Pimco says Fed’s new repo facility should ease future stress
Asset manager Pimco said the US Federal Reserve’s creation of a permanent standing repo facility (SRF) will help develop more resilient funding markets, although...
US Treasuries: You can’t handle the truth
Editorial by Dan Barnes.
Nobody wants responsibility for the US Treasuries market. We checked.
In 2014 The DESK approached every US financial regulator and authority to...
Trading : Intertwining electronic trading of credit and rates
Electronic market operators are bringing together credit and rates trading platforms in an effort to deliver more efficient execution for traders.
The interplay between the...
Refinitiv Lipper Research: Investors looking to reduce interest rate risk
A new report on the first quarter of 2021 from Refinitiv Lipper Research has found that fixed income funds posted a return of negative...
