obviously, the world goes to CME’s Fed funds futures to see what the expectations are in the market or the Federal Reserve. Currently, there is about 50 basis points or two more 25 basis points tightening priced into the curve. And then further out the curve, there is actually 200 basis...
Obviously, the world goes to CME’s Fed funds futures to see what the expectations are in the market or the Federal Reserve. Currently, there is about 50 basis points or two more 25 basis points tightening, priced into the curve. And then further out the curve, there is actually 200 bas...
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The CME FedWatch Tool uses the prices of fed funds futures to predict how the Fed might act concerning interest rates.2The futures, which are traded on the CME, allow investors to speculate or hedge based on what they expect in the future direction of this key interest rate. The market pr...
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“The reason why people rely on implied fed-funds futures pricing is because we don’t have any other publicly transparent options,” said Edward von der Schmidt, founder of Los Angeles-based Datum Research, a provider of market insights. “Having additional SOFR-r...
Yeah, hi, thank you for the question. And apologies that I was cut off somehow earlier. In terms of our volumes, the short end of the yield curve, in particular, the very fund contracts, let’s say the Fed funds contracts, for example, do become less interesting during a time of zer...
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In addition corporates, pension funds, insurance companies, endowments and foundations have a need to take views on, and hedge, interest rate exposure. Although CME Group has no official corporate view on when the Fed will hike rates; CME Group economists regularly map out a range of scenarios...
The other people that acquire the issuances coming out from the government need to hedge those. So it's hard to predict what the issuance is going to be. But again, those -- the parties that will be taking the issuance if it's not the Fed are traditionally people that hedge those in...