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Posts Tagged ‘rates’
Interest Rates
Friday, March 12th, 201016. The Evolution and Perfection of Monetary Policy
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Central Banks, originally created as bankers’ banks, implement monetary policy using their leverage over the supply of money and credit standards. Since the Bank of England was founded in 1694, through the gold standard which lasted until the 1930s, and into modern times, central banks have pursued monetary policy to stabilize the banking system. Central banks monitor currency flows and inflation, acting when crises, such as bank runs, emerged. More recently, central banks have taken an increasingly expansive role in stabilizing economic fluctuations. In the yet to be confirmed current recession, the Federal Reserve has used open market operations and innovative financial arrangements to try to forestall the recession and bail out failing financial institutions.
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
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The Myth of Interest Rates
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Update – Fed losing control of bond market?… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5V-yqBn-2w
Conventional wisdom which suggests that rising interest rates crush stock prices and that falling rates stimulate the market.
I first published a version of this chart on a message board in 2007, when the Fed cut rates after a market selloff. I’m not unique in charting this relationship, nor in using it to challenge conventional thinking, but I do think that I have something to contribute to the discussion.
At that time, in 2007, the market was struggling and the consensus was that cutting rates would ’save the day’.
This chart suggested otherwise and was subsequently proved correct. Rates were slashed but the market continued to fall – just as it had done from the peak in 2000.
I’m afraid it is now time to look at this chart from the other perspective. Stocks have made a major move up, rates have bottomed but rumblings are being made that they will rise over coming months.
Clearly, interest rates and stocks have, during the period in question generally enjoyed a surprising relationship. There was a period from 1995 to 1998 where rates were falling while the market rose but taking simple tops and bottoms in 2000, 2003, and again in 2007 it certainly looks as though stocks and rates have a correlation – and that stocks lead the relationship, not the other way around as is generally touted.
Why would this be – surely rising rates should kill the market, and easing of rates simulate. Isn’t that what we’ve just seen in the recent rally as liquidity from 0% interest rates gushed into the market?
How the Fed ’sets’ interest rates…
http://mises.org/story/2728
Jim Cramer ranting to “cut rates and save the market”:
SPY vs TLT (Bond fund)..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ta?s=SPY&t=5y&l=on&z=m&q=l&p=&a=&c=tlt
The yield curve…
http://stockcharts.com/charts/YieldCurve.html
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
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Rates expected to remain on hold
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
interest rates are expected to remain on hold, leaving borrowing at a record low for twelve months.
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Barclays On Interest Rates
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Commercial bank lending rates are unlikely to drop significantly any time soon. Results released by key players towards the end of last week indicate that interest on lending activities remains the main source of income for banks as they seek to maintain profit growth levels and build on shareholder value. The central bank has repeatedly blamed unidentifed weaknesses in the system for the failure by banks to reduce their rates in line with the regulators prodding using both monetary policy tools at its disposal and moral suasion.
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Currency Trading & Intermarket Analysis Ashraf Laidi
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Ashraf Laidi’s “Currency Trading & Intermarket Analysis –How to Profit from the Shifting Currents in Global Markets”. Ashraf Laidi’s book is the first of its kind to explain in detail the meaning of risk appetite in currencies, commodities, equities, bonds and fixed income. In addition to its extensive historical overiew of the major historical developments in forex markets over the past 35 years, the book explores the interelationships among the various commodities, dissecting which currencies are driven by oil, gold, metals, and food/agriculture. www.ashraflaidi.com
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Mortgage Market Week Ahead with NHLA
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
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Eurodollar futures: introduction
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Here is an introduction to the Eurodollar futures contract using current quotes to illustrate: Assume we take a long position in a December 2008 Eurodollar futures contract. The quote is 97.005. That means we are “locking in” an annualized libor rate of 2.995% (1100 — 97.005). The quote of 97.005 corresponds to a contract price of $992,513 (the contract is on a par of $1 million). If the LIBOR rate declines to, say, 2.0% in December, the quote goes up to 98 (100 — 2) and contract price goes up to $995,000. As a long position, we gained (by design) $25 per 1 basis point decline in the LIBOR.
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Interest rates and gold… and Volcker
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
When inflation is greater than interest rates, savers are losers so just stick your money in precious metals. When interest rates are greater than inflation and there is no political risk, then your money can work for you.
Volcker gives the best quote about banking than ever, and also lets it slip that the Fed manipulates the gold price.
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