The push we really want to see companies making is a shift in what they produce and how they produce it so that it is carbon neutral - not
just feeding funds into an emerging carbon market.
But with these increases in interest rates, it's
just the Fed fund rate.
Not exact matches
Though the
Fed has been in a slow rate - hiking pace since December 2015 — the December 2017 increase was the fifth in the current cycle — its benchmark
funds rate remains targeted at
just 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.
If I was Greenspan, I would at least cut the
Fed Funds target by a quarter at about 10:15 A.M. on Monday, giving the markets
just enough time to digest any initial sell orders and providing something of a base from which to rally.
The 2 - year note yield is basically
just a function of
fed funds expectations, but the 10 - year note yield is a function of many things — three things in particular I'd like to highlight:
But rates still remain low, historically speaking — the
Fed's now targeting an FFR (
Fed funds rate) of
just 1.25 - 1.5 % — and inflation remains below the
Fed's target.
On Friday, the CME FedWatch Tool, which is based on the CME Group 30 - Day
Fed Fund futures prices, showed a 73 percent chance that the
Fed would raise rates
just 25 - 50 basis points, if it voted to raise rates.
, which is based on the CME Group 30 - Day
Fed Fund futures prices, showed a 73 percent chance that the
Fed would raise rates
just 25 - 50 basis points, if it voted to raise rates.
Since its initial nudge, the
Fed has increased the federal
funds rate
just three times — once in 2016, and twice so far in 2017.
In fact, even with this month's latest boost, the sixth, the
fed funds rate is still
just 1 5/8 % (at its mid-point).
Consequently, the
Fed can no longer target the effective federal
funds rate, and influence other short - term interest rates,
just by making modest changes to the stock of bank reserves.
Having
just raised interest rates at their last meeting, the
Fed has no plans to follow up in May but
Fed fund futures show a 93 % chance of a quarter point rate hike the following month when economic projections are updated and Jerome Powell holds a press conference.
Just 15 years ago,
fed funds were 6.5 %.
The
Fed hopes the nearly unprecedented 1.25 percent cut in the
funds rate in
just eight days — lowering it to 3 percent — will ease pressure on upcoming hikes in adjustable rate mortgages.
Then,
just move
Fed funds to keep the yield curve slope near that 0.25 % slope.
But even as we grapple with the lingering effects of the storm,
feeding kids candy, donuts and fast food to
fund their extracurricular activities is
just robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Call me a dreamer, but I like to think that it's Congress's responsibility to provide those
funds, instead of making schools hold out their hats or run a bake sale
just to
feed their students adequately.
Support the use of Title I
funds to turn around schools that
feed into or out of struggling schools, not
just low - performing schools.
We've
just been through 4.5 years of
Fed funds / Interest on reserves being below 0.5 % — this is a far greater period of loose policy than that of 1992 - 1993 and 2002 to mid-2004 together, and there is no apparent end in sight.
The introduction of money market
funds (and the elimination of regulation Q, a ceiling on credited interest rates) helped prolong the inflation of the 70s, because the
Fed couldn't control liquidity the way that it used to; money market
funds just kept supplying liquidity at interest rates investors found attractive.
Just do your work through
fed funds, and make sure you squeeze out bad debts before you stop tightening.
Since he is not managing his own mutual
funds to produce a 144 % advantage, but he apparently is
just substituting other Vanguard
funds into a portfolio, then it sounds like he is biting the hand that
feeds him.
Then,
just move
Fed funds to keep the yield curve slope near that 0.25 % slope.
The
Fed funds futures market is
just very good at sensing the various forces that affect the
Fed, and the collective wisdom of the market is very good at predicting the
Fed.
Because of that, the Baa index of Moody's may lag longer than ordinary versus
Fed funds... but
Fed policy has been called impotent before, and usually
just before it shows its bite, as in the tech bubble of 2000, or the liquidity rally of spring 2003.
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On the other hand, can't they track actual eurodollar trading the way
Fed funds gets done, and then
just publish an average rate?
I'm
just learning about low - cost index
funds and it seems like other financial institutions have much lower MERs — but is that because they charge additional
feeds on top of the MER?
APRs to go up as
Fed raises interest rates — Interest rate setters at the Federal Reserve raised their benchmark federal
funds rate for
just the second time in 10 years... (See
Fed)
But it's not
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These days the
Fed seems more concerned about inflation than recession and had raised the federal
funds rate to
just over 5 percent as of mid-2006 to head off what it fears is a potentially overheated economy.