IEF is a longer maturity, longer duration play on the US Intermediate Treasury segment. The fund focuses on Treasury notes expiring 7-10 years from now, which have significantly higher yield and interest rate sensitivity than the notes that make up our broader 1-10 year benchmark. IEF`s average YTM is significantly higher than US-T Aggregated benchmark's. Of...
US Federal Reserve Interest Rate 2024-2025 And here’s the chart of the interest rate. ECONOMICS:USINTR I’ll just take a wild guess! Don’t judge me too harshly, but they might keep the rate steady, with a potential cut closer to the elections. Logically, though, it would make more sense to cut it now, so the masses think there’s no recession coming and that...
US stock indices, including the benchmark American economy S&P500 index (SPX) and US BigTech Nasdaq-100 index (NDX), are retreating from their yearly highs, moving to a more aggressive decline last Friday, April 12. Investors digest the first portion of earnings reports for March quarter 2024 - traditionally starting with financial sector Earnings reports. New...
The swing in 4H time frame is still in the impulse wave of the daily swing. The impulse of the 4H time frame swing has started(DB neckline breakout level 83.2500) Caution :: FOMC meeting on 20 Sep'23 11:30PM IST and the current market price is at the weekly resistance of the ascending triangle pattern.
I have officially decided to update our long-term price projection for Bitcoin. A major key change is the elimination of the mini-bull market. Instead we are expecting the current bull market to develop into a major bull market. There is also a very high likelihood that this will be the only bull market for the 4th cycle. In this video we partially stepped outside...
With the interest rate hike correlation to US10Y Bonds, as the rates are rising we are seeing demand for risky assets drop off, people are cashing out of these asset classes and money is moving to bonds, in consequence we are seeing the USD start gaining great strength. The US10Y market is very interesting, as we appear to have broken a downtrend on the weekly...
If history is any indicator we shouldn't expect any pivots in monetary policy until 10Y Bond Yields come down to Interest Rates or Interest Rates hike to the former's level. For 10Y Bond Yields to come down we need to see lower inflation or inflationary pressure.