Discover how interest rates influence futures prices, alongside other factors like storage costs and convenience yields. Learn how these elements shape market strategies.

The yield curve is not easily understood, but it is important in giving us a good look at what is happening in the economy. Not surprisingly, Austrian ...

Short-term interest rates are supposed to be the cleanest readout of monetary policy, yet a growing chorus of specialists is warning that some of these gauges are behaving in ways that do not line up ...

Fed officials are divided on whether to prioritize controlling inflation or addressing the slowing job market.

The Federal Reserve has cut short-term rates by 175 basis points since September 2024, with the potential for another 75 basis points if inflation stays near 2.5%. Short-term Treasury bill yields ...

If the president had gotten his way, inflation would surely be rocketing again, the economy would be overheating and the Fed would have to raise short-term rates again Fed Chair Jerome Powell refused ...

Potentially higher inflation from spiking oil prices could keep the Fed on hold this year.

Interest rates available on certificates of deposit (CDs) in recent years have been exponentially higher than where they started the decade. In 2020, for example, they hovered around or below 1%. But ...