Highly leveraged middle-market borrowers with worsening business performance face higher default risks unless rates drop and ...
The RBA could take the falling Aussie dollar into account when it meets next month to discuss interest rates. (Source: Getty/AAP) "I can't wait for the rates to drop, but I think the RBA is going to ...
Australia’s biggest bank says there may be some brief relief for those priced out of owning a home, but there could be a ...
Via arbitrage, the yield on a long-term bond should equate to investors’ expectations of the average federal-funds rate over ...
Obi & Adetilewa Adebajo The interest rate spread is the difference between the interest rates charged on loans and the ...
A once-dominant BlackRock Inc. bond ETF is at risk of losing its crown as the biggest inflation-hedging product of its kind, ...
In this post, I will begin by looking at movements in treasury rates, across maturities, during 2024, and the resultant ...
Ongoing strength in the U.S. economy drove mortgage rates up over 7% for the first time in eight months, casting doubt over a recovery in the housing sector. The 30-year mortgage rate inched up to ...
Small-cap stocks appear riskier after interest rates in the bond market recently spiked, with the Russell 2000 index now in correction territory. The Russell 2000 index RUT, a broad gauge of ...
In any case, the Fed doesn't set mortgage rates directly. Neither does the White House — lenders do. Mortgage interest rates, which are closely tied to the 10-year Treasury bond yield ...
That all changed after the COVID-19 pandemic when you could finally park your cash in a high-yield savings account and earn a decent interest rate. Rather than being the exception, this was the ...
In the financial market, a risk-free rate of return is attributed to the interest payments or the rate of return received by an investor on the money invested in a risk-free financial instrument ...