13.5 C
Ottawa
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Bond Report: 2-year Treasury yield slips below 5% after Fed delivers another pause in interest rate hikes

Date:

Yields on U.S. government debt ended lower on Wednesday after Federal Reserve officials took no action on interest rates for a second straight meeting.

Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!

What happened

What drove markets

As widely expected, Fed officials voted unanimously to hold their main interest-rate target at a 22-year high of 5.25%-5.5% on Wednesday, but they left the option of a rate hike at some point on the table. Analysts focused on the part of the Fed’s policy statement which referred to the recent rise in Treasury yields, and indicated…

know more

Popular

More like this
Related

Financial skills slip as we age. Here’s how we can learn to stay sharp.

Please enable JS and disable any ad blockerknow more

Federal judge makes your Social Security data harder for DOGE to access — for now

Please enable JS and disable any ad blockerknow more

Advance polls open across the country today

PoliticsRegistered voters can cast an early ballot at their assigned...

‘No options’ on tariffs without more time, says company importing from U.S.

BusinessA program announced this week to help some Canadian businesses...