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Bloomberg
3 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Treasury Traders Await Labor Data to Trigger Rate Shifts
Bond investors are looking to a slew of labor-market indicators — including the May employment report — for help in determining the next shifts in Treasury yields and the Federal Reserve's interest-rate policy. US Treasuries capped their first monthly decline in 2025 in May, according to a Bloomberg index, with sentiment for longer-dated bonds rattled by worries around the nation's fiscal outlook. Traders now enter June betting on two quarter-point rate reductions this year, down from around three in early May.
Bloomberg
11-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Bond Traders' Rate-Cut Optimism Flattened by Powell Tough Talk
Bond investors are coming to terms with Jerome Powell's message that the Federal Reserve is in no-rush to start cutting interest rates. After Powell reiterated the central bank's wait-and-see approach to easing monetary policy last week, traders aggressively boosted bets that the benchmark lending rate will be cut by less than a three-quarter point in 2025, with the first move starting only in July.
