Sentences with phrase «like fed funds»

And, as I have said since the beginning of this move, given that the FOMC has been willing to use crude policy tools like the Fed funds rate to try to reflate areas where credit stress is high, they will overshoot.

Not exact matches

Following Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's comments regarding the tapering of quantitative easing this summer, funds previously invested in countries like India are being repatriated to the United States.

«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.

The inevitable increase of the Fed funds rate is starting to look like it could be a non-event.

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:

In that same interview, he seems to be reaching to square these contradictions, by suggesting that the Fed's current model — targeting 2 % inflation, a Fed funds rate of ~ 3 %, and an unemployment rate of ~ 5 % — is not reliable and that they should maybe move to a different targeting regime, like price - level or nominal GDP targeting.

There are Those that would like to wish inflation away, and that might work this time, but that's the game of chicken: Inflation vs. further fed funds hikes.

I really like the idea of having all my equity allocation in one fund, but don't want to be in the situation where 50 % of my investment underperforms & I'm drip feeding 50 % of my new cash into it every month.

There is $ 2.7 trillion in money market funds alone, plus another $ 9.1 trillion in bank deposits, like checking accounts and certificate of deposits (CDs)(source: Investment Company Institute (ICI) and Federal Reserve (Fed), as of 10/16/2017).

For an ETF investor with exposure to 10 - year and longer - dated debt through funds such as the iShares 7 - 10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEF A-51) and the iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT A-85), this period of quiet in the fed funds rate looked like this for their portfolios:

Based upon the Fed's guidance, it looks like we are in line for two more rate bumps this year, which would bring the federal funds target rate up to 1.75 % -2 %.

One more note: I believe gradualism is almost required in Fed tightening cycles in the present environment — a lot more lending, financing, and derivatives trading gears off of short rates like three - month LIBOR, which correlates tightly with fed funFed tightening cycles in the present environment — a lot more lending, financing, and derivatives trading gears off of short rates like three - month LIBOR, which correlates tightly with fed funfed funds.

Entrepreneurs are often puzzled by why another company's funding erupts into a feeding frenzy, while their fundraising drags on like «the Bataan Death March.»

Today, around 2:15 when the Fed's policy statement is released, and the guy on CNBC at the Fed talks into the mike that sounds like it is a coffee can, many will focus on the change in the Fed funds target rate.

Given that there's no end in sight for the Fed's fixation on low interest rates, those looking for return in cash and fixed income won't get it from conventional debt instruments like Treasurys and money market funds.

Frankly I'm exhausted of all of this, yet there will be debate on abortion, religion, satanism, and of course those terrible people who go to church every Sunday and give money to fund things like feeding the poor and needy.

So before we ever see federal funding levels adequate to finance «real food,» «clean label» meals like those in this Minnesota district, it's going to take a truly seismic shift in how our nation thinks generally about food and the feeding of its school children.

Back in September I had a piece on Civil Eats in which I described how surprisingly unhealthy foods like Rice Krispies treats, donuts, and Pop Tarts can be fed to children in federally funded daycare meal programs.

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.

They based their forecast on some of their previous research — funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which showed how the volcano inflates and deflates like a balloon in a repeatable pattern as it responds to magma being fed into the seamount.

Media outlets like the Tribune are still using this sort of empty cheerleading to prop up Fed Ed Head Duncan's demand, funded by millions in Race to the Top money, that we must move fast to fire experienced teachers and replace them with, well, other people.

E.g by promoting both the publishers name and the editors name in ebook titles (and refuse to sell to stores where these are not equally as browsable attributes as author and title - unlike movies currently I only rarely know the editor / publisher of my favourite books) and redirect remaining marketing spend to fund fan / reader groups to gain «seed knowledge» to push recommendations as to who will like their new authors (ie feeding «if you liked the books of Charles Stross, why not try Richard Winslade's new opus» into amazon's recommendation engine, but with an eye to maximise the authors / editor / publishing houselong term brand appreciation rather than short term sales through erroneous linking only to top 10 authors).

Practical economists like me are aware that credit - sensitive investments often have little practical relationship to Fed funds.

At every percentage rise in the Treasury less fed funds spread like this, the Fed has loosenfed funds spread like this, the Fed has loosenFed has loosened.

If the FOMC cut the Fed funds rate to 3 %, that might normalize things, but for now they will be content with half measures like temporary injections of liquidity.

Also like the market, you can't simply take an average of their views as representative of where Fed Fund will be.

Based upon the Fed's guidance, it looks like we are in line for two more rate bumps this year, which would bring the federal funds target rate up to 1.75 % -2 %.

Regarding Fed funds, it looks like they will cut 25 basis points on 4/30, but make noises that they are getting close to being done.

Remember, though, that the Fed funds rate is a very short - term interest rate that does not directly impact long - term rates like mortgage rates.

A zero Fed funds rate actually makes life harder for the moneyed class, who can no longer live off interest from a safe asset like Treasury bond, and are pushed to acquire real assets to protect themselves from the inflation.

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.

As a result, you'll generally observe that when the Fed lowers the Fed Funds Rate, banks often lower other «offered» rates like the Prime Rate and LIBOR, but they also simultaneously lower deposit rates.

Today, around 2:15 when the Fed's policy statement is released, and the guy on CNBC at the Fed talks into the mike that sounds like it is a coffee can, many will focus on the change in the Fed funds target rate.

In a case like this, moving the Fed Funds rate might be the least painful option.

One more note: I believe gradualism is almost required in Fed tightening cycles in the present environment — a lot more lending, financing, and derivatives trading gears off of short rates like three - month LIBOR, which correlates tightly with fed funFed tightening cycles in the present environment — a lot more lending, financing, and derivatives trading gears off of short rates like three - month LIBOR, which correlates tightly with fed funfed funds.

Nice, and toss in the commentary that sound like the Fed is taking signals from the TIPS market on inflation, as well as the commentary in the minutes that some members were leaning toward cuts in the Fed funds rate.

These short - term financing arrangements (TAF & TSLF) are an attempt of the Fed to redirect liquidity from ordinary channels (fed funds and the like), to the short - term funding of banks and dealers with acceptable collaterFed to redirect liquidity from ordinary channels (fed funds and the like), to the short - term funding of banks and dealers with acceptable collaterfed funds and the like), to the short - term funding of banks and dealers with acceptable collateral.

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We could see Fed funds below 2 % in that case, but absent another crisis, 2 % looks like the low point for this cycle.

The people at Morningstar suspended their awards gala for 2016 on the grounds that they give many of the prizes to companies and funds based on subjective data, like «juried» selections.To their credit, Morningstar did not want to «feed the beast» of mutual fund marketing departments any longer.

Like all futures contracts, hedgers and speculators create the market for the Fed funds 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?

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His story goes something like this: after 1 1/2 years in the hands of an Oklahoma backyard breeder who had finally run out of funds to feed the dogs, seeing the condition of Max and several other Shelties, Arizona Sheltie Rescue felt they had to step in.

We'd like Council to review the level of funding allocated to implementing the Energy Plan 1.0, and ensure that there is enough funding in the 10 - year budget to enable all of these actions to be kicked off, not drip - fed over a decade.

Hobby sites like «WattsUpWithThat» are a start to effective opposition, but to be honest it really is time that the fossil fuel industry who so many believers think are funding the sceptics, got off their backsides, put their hands in their pockets and did the decent thing to fund the professional science «opposition» which is needed to force the climategate forecasters to stop feeding this monster with their PR and start to try to justify the existence of their monster based on real science in the face of real decently financed opposition and not part - time unpaid people like us here.

The search has spanned the gamut from funding research, investing in expensive solutions like desalination plants, toying with the idea of recycling wastewater, imposing water - use restrictions, letting lawns go dry and experimenting with irrigation efficiency techniques for the crops that feed the country.

Yes, it's true — skeptical, legitimate climate scientists like the ones who run this site have been very frustrated by the deliberately deceitful pseudoscience, outright lies — and most recently vicious personal attacks against them — that have been cranked out for the last couple of decades by fossil fuel industry - funded frauds and cranks and given unwarranted legitimacy by the mass media, and regurgitated ad nauseum on blogs everywhere by Ditto - Heads who unquestioningly believe whatever drivel is spoon - fed to them by the phony «conservative» media, and call themselves «skeptics» for doing so.

He's also exploring the creation of «climate - smart beef and milk» standards, which could encourage companies like Marks & Spencer or Whole Foods to fund the product's use by paying a premium for Mootral - fed cattle products.

Congress ended 2015 with an 11 % approval rating; that's not directly tied to the presidential campaign fund (since that money is, obviously, for presidential campaigns and not for Congress) but it does underscore the fact that people are fed up with politicians and feel like they don't deserve that money.