Posts Tagged ‘fed funds futures rate odds’

Treasuries: The Next Big Bubble

By Kristina Zurla Landgraf • Dec 4th, 2008 • Category: Broker Commentary, Market Updates

The Treasury Bubble By Richard Ilczyszyn The fear and the volatility we’ve seen in the past few months in the stock market has driven investors to safe-haven instruments like U.S. Treasuries, and prices for Treasury bonds and notes have soared. It’s looking like the next big bubble. Like any bubble, I think it will eventually [...]


More Interest Rate Cuts Seen Coming

By Kristina Zurla Landgraf • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: Broker Commentary, Market Updates

After the unprecedented, coordinated global interest rate cuts earlier this month, market participants are speculating more are coming. CME Group Federal Funds futures are pricing in odds of more than 80 percent the Federal Reserve will lower its key interbank lending rate (known as the Fed funds rate) by half a percent at the October [...]