(Bloomberg) — Traders are increasingly betting that the Federal Reserve’s cycle of interest-rate hikes, which hasn’t even gotten underway yet, will fizzle out sooner rather than later. Parts of the curve for eurodollar futures, which among other things are used by traders to bet on the direction of central bank policy, have been inverting over […]
Read MoreFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a U.S. House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington. Al Drago/Bloomberg Was Jerome Powell channeling Paul Volcker this past week by admitting that inflation has ceased being transitory? Or will he wind up being more like Alan Greenspan, facing a conundrum if the bond market fails to follow the […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Global bond yields are surging after a bigger-than-expected jump in U.S. inflation revived concerns that central banks will be forced to start raising interest rates sooner than traders anticipate. Treasuries tumbled Wednesday in an abrupt reversal for the world’s biggest bond market, where yields had declined after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell last […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Big Tech stocks may be defying the biggest outbreak of bond volatility since April 2020, but a cohort of Wall Street strategists warn that a spike in real interest rates could finally knock them from all-time highs. With the Federal Reserve likely to announce the paring of pandemic stimulus this week, Wells Fargo […]
Read MoreThe personal finance community has been buzzing this week about a little-known type of government-backed savings bond paying as much as the stock market usually pays over the long-term: A mouth-watering 7.12% that’s pretty much as safe as anything out there. They’re called Series I savings bonds and the government sets the rate of interest […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman is girding for rate hikes, and he says markets are ready for them. “You’ve got to prick this bubble a little bit,” Gorman said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “Money is a bit too free and available right now.” Gorman pointed to wage increases, […]
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