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U.S. Treasury Yields Fall Again
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
U.S. Treasury yields are lower this week across the board from 3-month T-Bills to 10-year T-Bonds. Yields below 3% are now the rule (except for a bump in the yield curve at 6-months where the yield jumps over 3.10%) for all the U.S. Treasuries with maturities 5 years and less.
The Federal Reserve meets next week [...]
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Interest Rates 2008
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
The Federal Reserve has lowered their benchmark interest rates 75 points in 2007 while publicly stating it remains inflation-vigilant. The futures market, where contracts are traded based on the future value of the Federal Funds Rate, is currently discounting in another 75 ppint rate cut between now and the summer of 2008. Online banks who [...]
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Interest Rates Review - October 5, 2007
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
Interest rates had a mixed weeks with mortgage rates decreasing, bank deposit rates decreasing, and The 50 point interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve may be enough to keep the U.S. economy from sinking as a result of the financial markets’ recent turmoil, Donald Kohn, vice chairman of the central bank, said Friday. Kohn [...]
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Say Goodbye to 5.00% Savings Account Yields?
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
The reality of lower short-term rates has set in and the next step is to watch the leading online banks to see how quickly and by how much they adjust their deposit rates. The 5.00% and higher APY yields which have been prevalent over the last year are nearly certain to drop to rates in [...]
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Global Interest Rates to Pressure U.S. Rates?
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
Despite the foregone conclusion on Wall Street that the Federal Reserve will lower rates continually in a bailout effort for the mortgage and banking industry, a trend this summer has been interest rate increases across the world. Global investors may meet a rate cut in the United States with less excitement as the spread between [...]
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Global Interest Rates Increasing
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
Central banks across the world have reacted this July by increasing their benchmark lending rates in an effort to control domestic inflation. Included in the list of central banks to recently intervene with rate increases were (1) The Bank of Canada who increased their overnight lending rate to 4.25% and (2) The People’s Bank of [...]
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