Category Archive: 6b.) Marketbeat Negative Rates

Do Negative Rates Work? Yes, But Not by Much

Federal Reserve policy makers opposed to taking interest rates negative in the next recession might take comfort from the end of Sweden’s dalliance with below-zero rates. But investors shouldn’t expect the neighboring eurozone to follow suit: Just hours after the Riksbank raised its policy rate back to zero on Thursday, a group of the most senior monetary-policy staff at the European Central Bank published a long-awaited paper robustly defending...

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The Wave of Negative Rates Starts to Recede

Negative yields on long-term European government bonds took financial markets by storm earlier this year but are starting to fade away as investors express renewed optimism about global economic growth. The yield on 10-year bonds issued by the French and Belgian governments turned positive Thursday for the first time since mid-July.

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The Swiss-tuation: Negative LIBOR

[unable to retrieve full-text content]We're through the looking glass, people! Not only is Abercrombie & Fitch paying people not to wear its clothing, but now some bank somewhere claims to be getting a negative rate to lend Swiss francs in the short term to another bank.

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From One Crisis to Another: One Month T-Bill Yields Go Negative Again

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The one-month T-bill yields zero again, as God intended, and even briefly turned negative this morning, as investors scramble for the safest, most-liquid assets they can find.

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