U.S. Treasury yields were up on Monday as investors prepared for a week of events including the Federal Reserve’s next monetary policy meeting.
U.S. Treasury yields were up on Monday as investors prepared for a week of events including a Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting and the release of key economic data.Yields and prices have an inverted relationship and one basis point equals 0.01%.
The Fed meeting will begin Tuesday and culminate in the central bank's latest interest rate decision on Wednesday. Markets are currently pricing in an over 96% chance that the Fed will keep rates unchanged, according toInvestors are hoping for guidance from the Fed on what's ahead for interest rates and whether the central bank is done hiking.
Uncertainty around that has grown since the last Fed meeting in September, when policymakers suggested one further rate hike this year was likely. Treasury yields have, however, spiked since then, with the 10-year Treasury yield rising above 5% last week, prompting several Fed officials to say rates do not need to go any higher as elevated yields effectively work to ease the economy., which is a key inflation measure for the Fed, was published Friday and was in line with expectations, rising 0.
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