Traders are pricing in a more than 50% chance that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in May.
Iran set the price of Iranian light crude oil sold to Asia in March at $4.35 per barrel above the average price in Oman/Dubai.
The gold pricing structure has changed, and the market outlook needs to focus on this indicator change! Sterling bulls are still cautious, beware of riding a "roller coaster" next week... Click to view the key points of each asset based on order flow...
The fair value of Berkshire Hathaway A's fixed income securities investments as of the end of 2024 is $15.214 billion, of which the fair value of investments in U.S. bonds, foreign bonds, and corporate bonds is $4.447 billion, $9.443 billion, and $1.324 billion, respectively.
PGIM Fixed Income said in a report that the Bank of Japan may raise the base rate by another 25 basis points this year. However, if Japanese consumers increase consumption significantly, the Bank of Japan may accelerate the pace of interest rate hikes. It pointed out that the Bank of Japan is gradually raising the nominal policy rate close to 2%, and the latest hike has lifted the rate to an important psychological level of 0.5%. In the long run, PGIM believes that the Bank of Japan believes tha...
PGIM Fixed Income said in a report that the base rate of the European Central Bank may need to fall below neutral if the accelerated economic growth repeatedly predicted by the ECB fails to materialize. The bank expects the ECB's neutral rate range to be between 1.5% and 2.5%, slightly lower than the deposit rate of 2.75% now and priced by the market at 1.91% by the end of the year. The European economy is more vulnerable to rising trade tensions given the weak macroeconomic situation, the repor...
The Federal Reserve accepted $97.781 billion from 39 counterparties in its fixed-rate reverse repo operations.
People's Bank of China: In January 2025, the People's Bank of China launched a 1.70 trillion yuan buyout reverse repurchase operation by means of fixed quantity, interest rate invite tenders, and multiple price points win the bidding.
On January 13, U.S. interest rate futures no longer fully priced in expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates even once this year, after Friday's strong monthly employment data underscored the resilience of the U.S. economy. Interest rate futures showed that traders expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by only 24.26 basis points by December this year, compared with about 43 basis points before the employment data was released. At present, traders are increasingly ...
The Federal Reserve accepted a total of 45 counterparties in the fixed rate reverse repo operation of $98.356 billion, the first time since April 2021 below $100 billion. At the end of September 2022, the scale was as high as $2.426 trillion.
BlackRock released its Global Outlook 2025 report, saying that bitcoin, with its fixed supply and growing demand driven by investor confidence in its widespread adoption as a payment technology, has demonstrated its potential as a new type of diverse technology.
On November 30, the National Market Interest Rate Pricing Self-discipline Mechanism recently issued the "Proposal on Introducing" Interest Rate Adjustment Miscellaneous Provisions "in Deposit Service Agreements, requiring banks to include" interest rate adjustment miscellaneous provisions "in deposit service agreements signed with customers, effective from December 1, 2024. There is a misreading of this clause in the market, that is, if the deposit listing interest rate is reduced, then the prev...