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The bond market is more dovish than the Fed. And perhaps with good reason. The November Consumer Price Index report came in below expectations, and there are more and more signs that inflation has started to trend lower, which may suggest the Fed’s work is coming to an end. So why is...
Jesse Rothstein, professor of public policy and economics at the University of California Berkeley, said the strength of the labor market partly depends on how successful the Fed’s interest rate policies are. “If inflation is coming down and unemployment isn’t going up, and they can continue...
“When I think more about the background conditions for which workers can exercise some power, I think the issue is less like 3.9% versus 3.6% unemployment, but whether or not the unemployment rate is in the threes or in the fives or sixes or sevens,” he said. “The labor market as ...
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Yields - the premium demanded by investors to hold UK government bonds - have risen in the wake of the official pay growth figures earlier that came in much higher than anticipated. The bond market is of a growing opinion that high pay and rising inflation will curb the Bank o...
Peter Cardillo:In terms of the macro outlook for the economy, the economy is growing somewhere between maybe 2.5% and 2.75%, which is a good growth rate. Inflation has come down substantially, but it is somewhat stubborn in some certain cases. And most important are some of the food prices...
therefore, lenders are essentially making a fixed rate loan with an embedded put option on interest rates. The value of any option is predominantly driven by the expected volatility of the underlying asset hence a more uncertain rate outlook should drive wider mortgage spreads and indeed it has....
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